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Dr.Valentine
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/3/2005 4:31:08 PM by heanor rec..does this refer to the park one or the one on wilmot street. |
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RMMee
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/3/2005 5:38:49 PM Which do you mean as "the park one"? I read the comments as referring to Wilmot Street, but I may be wrong. I'm sure there are other recs in Heanor itself. |
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Dr.Valentine
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/3/2005 8:53:08 PM the park one meaning near the leisure centre on the park Robert.i can't think of anymore in heanor it's self except down kingsway. |
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RMMee
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/4/2005 12:10:13 AM Isn't the rec down near the Leisure Centre fairly new - at least only as old as the centre itself? I was thinking of a rec down Kingsway when I made the comment. Isn't there also one somewhere down towards Peacock Town? |
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Dr.Valentine
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/4/2005 10:38:11 AM the centre came after the recreation part Robert,there was always a small pool for kids and i think a rec part also..could be wrong,but i don't think so.but i think we're scraping the barrel for more recs in the heanor area,if there was anymore then they are more than likely been built on. |
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frano
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/4/2005 7:24:15 PM The rec we used most was on Godfrey St next to Boam's garage, opposite to Mundy St school. There was no fancy gear then just a few swings. The younger classes at the above school used it for football and cricket. Football required a couple of coats for goal posts and cricket could only be played if one of the kids owned stumps and bat and ball. The rec was also used on occasions as a fairground accompanied by their caravans. One bad winter Market St was so blocked with snow, the council loaded it onto horse and carts and dumped it on the rec. |
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Dr.Valentine
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/5/2005 1:14:06 PM didn't heanor rec used to be at the top of the field near the garage and later moved to the bottom. |
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frano
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/5/2005 7:12:31 PM In my younger days it was the whole field between Godfrey St and Wilmot St. |
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Dr.Valentine
This message was updated on 12/5/2005 11:39:37 PM by Dr.Valentine |
Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/5/2005 11:37:22 PM frano...are you talking about the 60s..co's i remember when the circus used to come,i'm sure the swings ect was at the top end and the circus used the bottom end.but if maybe there's a photo of it somewhere it could prove otherwise.also wasn't the fire station down at the bottom once before it moved to it's new location on the welfare ground,i'm trying to recall what was there before that new building that housed the fire station. |
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frano
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 12/6/2005 7:15:21 PM I'm afraid I am a bit more ancient than the 60s. This would be about 1938. I may be wrong but I think the fire station was the first building there. |
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suzard
Researcher This message was updated on 3/12/2006 1:21:21 AM by suzard |
Recreation Grounds
replied on: 3/12/2006 12:12:20 AM Ripley & Heanor News 5th Sept 1913 "It was reported that the fencing at Langley Mill Recreation Ground had been fixed with entrances at Queen Street and Argyll Street. The ground had been formally opened, and the thanks of the Council were directed to be forwarded to Messrs Turners Band for their services and to the Surveyor for entertaining the Band. Mr Hardy asked if the Chairman of the Recreation Grounds Committee had any information to give as to a recreation ground for Codnor. Mr Bassford " We have never had any communication or meeting as to a recreation ground for Codnor." Mr Watson "There is to be a recreation ground which will be open to the juveniles of Codnor, It is going on alright." Several members expressed their satisfaction at this information. Mr Holmes called attention to what he termed preferential treatment of Langley Mill ground as against Langley Ground in the matter of fencing. At the former place the children could not get over the fences without an aeroplane, and at Langley there was scarcely any fence, and the children were constantly trespassing. Mr Hardy: "Did I understand you to say they have to use an aeroplane to get out of Langley Mill Ground?"(Laughter). Mr Holmes "No, but they cannot trespass on other peoples land." After Mr Buxton had declared that Langley ground was littered with rubbish and broken bottles, Mr Bassford pointed out it was not advisable to fence in the existing recreation ground at Langley, as it was only a temporary ground." ... and the following year the fence at langley Mill rec is still in the news>>>> R&H 24 July 1914 "A painful accident happenedon Friday evening to a girlnamed Nora Thompson aged about12 years, who resides with her parents at Campbell St langley Mill. The girl was being assisted by her friends over the iron fence which surrounds the Childrens Recreation Ground, whenshe slipped and one of her hands was pierced by an iron spike,which lacerated the flesh so badly that Dr Russell was called in and found it necessary to insert ten stiches in the wound." I have a scar on my finger which was caused by a wound made many years ago when climbing over the same fence!!!-but that incident never made the R&H!! |
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Peter Chamberlain
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 3/12/2006 9:30:57 AM With Hindsight Langley Mill's recreation ground on two sides was surrounded by a mainline railway and a branch line down the Dean street end to the Mill surely it was wise to put up a high fence to keep people away from these.What would Health and Safety do today |
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RMMee
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 3/12/2006 12:15:53 PM I've not had chance to go and look, but I've heard that within the last month or so a huge hole suddenly appeared on the Rec on Queen Street. Does anyone know anything about it? I assume it must have been an old pit shaft. |
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suzard
Researcher This message was updated on 3/12/2006 2:51:39 PM by suzard |
Recreation Grounds
replied on: 3/12/2006 2:48:30 PM Robert, A huge hole appeared "overnight" on Langley Mill rec in 1950's.It was in the top corner near the jitty which led to Argyle St. We never knew (or asked) what it was -but it was large enough for 15 + childeren to sit around the edges and jump into the middle. It was so deep you had to scramble up the sides and be pulled up to ground level. We thought it was great-I bet the one now is fenced off -warning signs etc.! 1940's there was also one appeared in our garden on Bank St which backed on to the rec-that was at least 6 ft deep. Neighbours brought rubble, ashes , anything they could find to fill it in - it took weeks, if not months to fill.Still never knew what caused that-my dad said it was an old well, but it was bone dry inside. |
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WesleyLees
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Recreation Grounds
replied on: 4/2/2007 12:30:45 PM The rec at Aldercar has not been mentioned yet. It was behind the houses on the western side of Upper Dunstead Road. You got to the rec either up a short road off Dunstead or via a jitty off Godkin Drive. The rec provided a shortcut through from Dunstead Road to Godkin Drive for kids going to Aldercar School. The rec had a bobbys hat, swings and the sort of round about that spins round. There was also a football field with goalposts. [but the rec with the best slide was at Eastwood, just down the road to Brinsley, but that is not part of Heanor!]. Wesley |
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