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Jennypeg Researcher Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/5/2005 8:45:25 AM Hi Azzabuv, I've not been yet but we've been told the pond is empty? we did walk up by Red River a few weeks ago and all the water had gone we was told this happens from time to time. Jenny
Azzabuv Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/5/2005 12:50:06 PM Well, that discounts the need for wellies then, Jenny. Yes, i've seen the Red River dwindle to a trickle at times..... but never completely dry up. The presently increasing hot weather has a lot to answer for. Where you go down the field from the end of Glew Lane and over the stile at the bottom, then turn left up the small steep rise and over that stile, immediately to the left, at about a hundred yards or so distance, was a small swamp in a hollow. This dried out completely and very suddenly in the 1950s (in one year). The reason stated was, that it had drained down into some old colliery workings. Whatever, it never appeared, or reformed again. Azzabuv.
db639 Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/5/2005 9:04:19 PM Azzabuv , we used to go bird nesting in Sough wood do you remember what " marking pens " or scribes were ?There used to be lots of them !each egg had its own number - so we thought .There were lots of jays there as well.db
Azzabuv Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/6/2005 12:35:51 PM No, DB., you've lost me on the 'marking pens' and scribes. A couple of us had a sharp pointed 'quill', for 'blowing' birds eggs. That's one thing i could never really take to. It just seemed like murder of the innocent. The trees and overgrowth round the largest Everick Pond, was an ideal area for 'bird-nesting'. It eventually got boring though. So then came the old '4.10', before reason dawned. Azzabuv.
db639 Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/6/2005 8:45:22 PM sad how we used to accept bird nesting and egg collecting as normal . Yellow hammers are what we used to call marking pens , their eggs are covered in brown squiggles almost like Arabic writing .db
RMMee Moderator Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 11/13/2005 11:03:44 AM I am currently reading an unpublished book on the author's reminiscences of his bird-watching rambles in the late 1930's up until around 1942. I thought people might be interested in his description of the Dumbles. "In my district the largest common for miles around is the Dumbles, which lies about half-way between Heanor Gate and a small village known as Denby Common. It consists of a wide, gorse-clad waste that slopes down to a little brook at the bottom of a wooded dell. On occasion, after a careless rambler has set fire to the gorse, the Dumbles becomes a desert of blackened shrubs; but mostly it is a colourful place, especially in early summer, when its broad slopes are all ablaze with gold." The chapter, as the rest of the book, goes on to talk about the bird watching in the area - in this case he finds a cuckoo's egg in a whinchat's nest, listens to the skylarks, and grabs hold of a grass snake which was heading for the next, depositing it a good distance away to protect the birds.
Jenks Quote \| Reply \| This message was updated on 2/17/2008 10:36:37 AM by Jenks	The Dumbles replied on: 2/17/2008 9:38:51 AM quote: Aye, i remember that old house which was knocked down. As nippers, we used to play among the ruins of it. The old brick/concrete copper used to make a grand hiding place when needed. A small boy could just fit inside it nicely - pull the top cover over the circular entrance and all was well. I know most of the names which you mention. Well, the sons anyway and a few of the men. It could be that 'private' mine was actually the many small coal diggings on what was/is known as 'The Delves'. Eventually its grassy surface resembled the cratered surface of the Moon. There was literally dozens of small/medium sized holes dug all over it, a few even having brick lined arched roofs and entrances and they were still prominent in the 1940s and 50s. Azzabuv. I'm a bit late on this one, but was the area that you mention 'The Delves' or the 'Dells', both my elder brother and I recall it as the latter, but then it is over 50 years since I was down there. Thanks for the memories of 'Red River', a lovely area that we would get to from the Kingsway side. Jenks
Jennypeg Researcher Quote \| Reply \|	The Dumbles replied on: 2/17/2008 7:51:31 PM Historic Denby By Ernest Roome R/H 1956 I have mentioned the Dumbles as being Denby’s summer resort. It is many years since I first went into the Dumbles, but the other day I decided I would pay a visit. I was greatly disappointed, because compared with the Dumbles of the past it looked more or less derelict. Scores of trees must have been felled and where there was a long forest of them, they have been split apart and a big gap left. So now from henceforth the Dumbles which in the years when people did not take a holiday at the seaside, but visited it for picnicking and sun- bathing cannot now be designated a summer resort. I am forgetting to state why this change has taken place. It is simple because of out-cropping and this had slipped from my memory. It might be amusing to relate that a certain “tribe” known as the Heanor Taghillians often trekked to what must have been then truly a summer resort. Still there is no reason why anyone fond of walking should not take a walk down Dumbles Lane, where at the bottom one can get over the fields to Heanor and Smalley, or by turning sharply right at the first of the two pairs of cottages over some humpy ground which leads to a stile, the destination could be Flamstead.
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