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| Azzabuv Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 11/22/2004 8:34:09 PM by Azzabuv | Erewash, Cromford and Nottm. Canal Junction. posted on: 11/22/2004 8:18:30 PM During the 1950s, there used to be a Rowing Boat hiring centre situated at the junction of the three canals at Langley Mill, next to the old lock-gate. On Sundays, there was always a fairly large crowd of teenagers on the grassy banks and for a small sum, you could hire a boat for your own use, or, yourself and your girl friend and slowly row along the Nottm. canal for an hour or so, or whatever length of time you had bought. It was well worth the price for the nearly solitude and the scenery of the canal banks themselves. One of the Hit Songs of the time was 'By the shores of Gitchyguma'. It seemed quite apt for those balmy, sunny days on the grassy-banked canal. Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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replied on: 11/23/2004 3:16:24 PM I remember "the boats" aswe used to call them-Sunday afternoons they were quite busy-especially after the Midland and Northern"turned out"-I remember on two occasions"inebriated" men hiring a boat and falling into the canal before they had moved more than a few feet. Wlking the canal bank(or "cutside") was a regular Summer Sunday afternoon stroll-didn't see much scenery-just plenty of boys fishing!!! Anyone remember the old decaying narrowboat on the canal? It seemed to have always been there. We used to make up tales about what had happened to the people who once lived on it-eventually we believed it was haunted and used to hurry by it.Those were the days-half of Langley Mill used to be on the "cutside" on a Sunday! |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 11/23/2004 3:36:48 PM What you've stated at the beginning of your last line Suzard, says it all. That song - 'Those were the days, my friend, those were the days........................' We actually felt it was near perfectly true at such times... but.................. Personally, i can't remember much of that old boat, only vaguely. I was the same as you, but not looking at boys - but i still saw the Summer scenery, well, sometimes. As for the boat, perhaps its last days had come and it was cheaper than paying towing or repair costs. Anyway, those were glorious boating days. No doubt the old Erewash is much busier now. Not the same at all. Yes, it was the 'Cut' and the 'Cut-side'. I used to believe it was called that name because you could 'cut' from one village to the other in a practically straight line. But perhaps it was actually called that because of the Irish navvies who had 'cut' the Canal through the earth? Azzabuv. |
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RMMee
Moderator Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 11/24/2004 8:08:11 PM by RMMee |
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replied on: 11/23/2004 5:56:16 PM I think I'm a bit younger than both of you - but even I can remember the wreck in the canal. (Assuming we're talking about the one on the Erewash Canal, rather than the Nottingham or Cromford.) I've not looked lately, but it was certainly still there in the late 1970's. |
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replied on: 11/23/2004 10:39:12 PM You have me on that one, Robert. But i do believe it was the Erewash Canal which housed the boat's remains. For some reason, i can't even remember which part of the Canal it was situated in. I do know i wish i could have a £1 for every time i've passed it over the years, but for the life of me, i just can't recollect that particular wreck in any great detail. I must have looked at it once and logged it as practically meaningless to me - a nondescript piece of rotting wood in the water. It never attracted my full attention at all. I probably didn't like its remaining colour scheme, if any? Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 11/23/2004 10:48:50 PM Like Suzard, I can remember standing and staring at it, wondering its history, and doubtless making one up for it! I'm sure I will have taken a photo of it at some time in my youth, but I don't think my photos have survived (don't know what happened to them though). I used to have a fascination for the canal (and still do enjoy a stroll along the banks of the Erewash). I can remember the canal basin at Langley Mill reopening, but don't remember an awful lot before then. As a teenager, I went to college at Ilkeston, and, when trying to save money, would often walk to college along the canal rather than catching the bus from Langley Mill. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 11/24/2004 12:21:47 PM I believe i've got the explanation as to why i can barely recollect that boat. In the mid-50s i used to cycle by it on a regular 5 working days a week basis for several months- quickly. This was because my mind was fixed on the clocking in clock at Burnhams factory at New Eastwood. I doubt if i gave it more than a swift cursory glance on some occasions as i passed by it and so it was relegated to the realm of the un-interesting in my work-a-day mind and consequently, there it stayed. Usually, anything connected to the past does draw my attention quickly, but that time......my obvious loss. IF the history of that boat is ever known/located, it should make interesting reading? What do you mean - "a bit younger than us"? Robert, have you never heard of 'Time Travel'? Not a lot of people know that. Azzabuv. 
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replied on: 1/1/2005 5:12:06 PM Another recollection of the canal-my "purply" friend -from Devils Dyke-had her photograph taken , whilst fishing on the Erewash canal, for the Langley Mill Coop calendar in 195? There used to be a different picture for every month-all local views of Langley Mill-wonder if there are any of those calenders still in existence-I expect over the years they would make a good pictorial history of Langley Mill and Aldercar. |
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replied on: 9/18/2005 8:19:01 AM Am I right to assume that this is the same picture as has been posted on the Langley Mill Co-op page? |
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replied on: 9/27/2005 1:15:52 PM langley mill & nottingham canal an insight to the canal. |
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replied on: 10/24/2005 8:37:26 AM Yes, Robert, that's the pic-bumped into my friend (who's in the pic) last week and we now havew a new viewer of the site! Another friend purchased a postcard yesterday of Mill Lock Langley Mill dated 1914. It shows the tow path, trees, children swimming in the canal, but the lock gates aren't there- I presume this lock served the flour mill, does anyone know anything about this lock? |
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replied on: 12/28/2005 1:17:14 AM I walked down the Erewash Canal a few weeks ago, and the wreck I remembered from my youth is no longer there - hardly surprising I suppose! |
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replied on: 12/28/2005 1:10:52 PM Have the row of cottages called Wharf Row disappeared too, Robert? I used to envy the children who lived there-although they were not too well off financially, they only had to walk up the garden and they could swim in the canal. |
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replied on: 1/16/2007 8:54:18 PM can anyone tell me exactly where loscoe wharf was .my grt grt grandfather was a contractor there on the 1881 census. thanks |
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replied on: 1/17/2007 7:45:00 AM Lesley Loscoe wharf was next to the Anchor Inn, at the bottom of Bailey Grove. Coal was brought down from Loscoe on a tramway - the final leg of the route is now a footpath from Milnhay Road to the canal at the Anchor. |
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replied on: 1/23/2007 8:41:41 PM thanks walked down there many times.always wondered which bit it was lesley |
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