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| suzard Researcher Quote | Reply | | Langley Mill Coop posted on: 8/14/2005 5:15:25 PM The Coop in Langley Mill and Aldercar has a lot of history-shops, bank, dairy, coal wharf etc. Does anyone know where the Langley Mill Coop Employees Sportsground was situated?? Was Langley Mill cricket ground originally the home of this sports club? The Gazette 11 Jun 1937 "The sportsground provided for the employees of the Langley Mill and Aldercar Cooperative Society Ltd is a popular rendevous during these long summer days and the various sections of the Sports Club are busy on an interesting programme of fixtures.The ground is in excellent condition and cricket, bowls and tennis are in full swing.With a membership of forty the Bowls section has been able to arrange a number of friendly matches, having won one and lost two so far.With two hard tennis courts and three grass there is no lack of facilities for tennis players and all sections have the use of the exellent pavilion The coming years will see the employees occupying a much more prominent niche in local sport than hitherto." It must have covered quite a large area????? |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/15/2005 7:42:18 AM The Sports Ground was on the Eastwood side of the Gt Northern Station it sat just behind the dairy.It had as you say a fine bowling green 2 tennis courts and a cricket pitch all now swallowed up by the bypass and Warburtons bakery. Behind this was The Nissen Huts housing the Polish Refugees which later became the Mushroom Farm.The Cricket Pitch was not over big and the ball had to be fetched off the Railway lines quite often .I played both for and against on this ground in the 1950-60s.The team played in the Notts and Derby Border League in a division mostly comprising of Second Eleven Sides and played friendlies on a Wednesday the traditional Half Day Closing. |
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suzard
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replied on: 8/15/2005 11:41:18 AM What a shame these facilities disappear in the "name of progress". I remember going to the " Coop Model Dairy"-as it was called-we used to collect the foil strips out of which the milk bottle tops had been cut and use them as Christmas decorations.I was very surprised when the dairy was demolished as the building was a historical piece of architecture. The Coop provided so many facilities in its day. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/15/2005 12:39:34 PM Shades of my early teen, Heanor milkround, with Bill, (noooo, not THE Bill, Ice) who picked his supplies up from there. I used to really enjoy driving the electrically propelled 'lorry'. It's sad to here another landmark of the past has now gone too. Azzabuv. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/15/2005 8:19:04 PM Recall when the Co-op used to have there own Summer Fete at Creswick's Farm(which they owned).Which had its own track by the Railway Bridge Langley end of Milnhay Road. |
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suzard
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replied on: 8/16/2005 12:14:14 PM I never knew that! The Langley Mill Coop hall provided many facilities too-there was the Drama Group (junior and senior)which ran for many years-well over 50-various handicraft classes, a youth club room, twice a year the Coop Manequin parade was held there (clothing paraded from Eastwood and Langley Mill shops), Handicraft exhibitons (everything from pegged rugs, cakes, handwtiting, garden produce), whist/Beetle drives-all kinds of meetings were held there- Betty Rose (who had her own school of dancing elsewhere) held dancing classes there (no charge)- I think the only time you were charged was an entry fee for a concert or to hire the hall for a wedding reception!The hall closed along with the demise of the Coop, I should say alas there is nothing like that in Langley Mill any more, but they reopened the Hall (after renovation) a few years ago as the Bridge Centre and guess what? all kinds of classes and functions are held there once again. |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 8/16/2005 3:28:49 PM The Co-op Milk Man at Langley Mill was “Joe, the Milkman” Joe Robinson and his horse “Peacock” This was in the Ripley and Heanor 7th April 1972, I sent Robert the photo’s and the article about him. also found a article about the Co-op Hall Langley Mill, by G. H. Watson (Ripley and Heanor News 16th Feb 1990)should I post this one? Jenny |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 8/16/2005 4:23:35 PM 16th Feb 1990 Mr. G.H. Watson CO-OP HALL MEMORIES Sir, In one of your recent editions it was made known that the “Langley Mill Co-op Players” had received the news that their headquarters in Cromford Road was to close. This could almost be called the end of an era as far as buildings own by the one time Langley Mill and Aldercar Co-operative Society is concerned. My early memories of the hall are when a coloured gentleman would make an annual visit, and most of the children in Langley Mill and Aldercar by admission of I think 2d would attend. He would tell a few stories, sing and play the piano, I do not know whether his last visit was sweet or not, but I know that it was very very short, I think that this was the reason he never appeared on the scene anymore. In those days the hall appeared to be in constant use, dances, social evenings, exhibitions, wedding receptions, concerts. Mr. Albert Lesson, organist at the one time Primitive Methodist Church in Cromford Road would organise a concert for church funds and taking part would be such names as Mr and Mrs Lew Thompson, Charlie and Florence Mason, Mrs Gladys Carter, Mr Sidney Rouse, Mr Ernest Newbold, Mr Stanley Woolley, Mrs lesson’s brother-in-law, Mr Eddie Carlin with Cecil Berle, comedian of Heanor, and many more I could recall. Then of course there would be the quarterly meetings when members would use their votes to elect various people onto the committees. Following the voting the usual business meeting would be held and it was a well-known fact that these meetings were not always of a quiet nature, questions would be asked by some of the members and the answers were not always acceptable. I always remember passing the hall one night when one of the meeting had just ended, one man called out to another, “I told you its been better than going to the pictures.” I remember Mr. Moore who lived in Thompson Street being one of the caretakers. Mr. Moore was, I think, a retired policeman and he kept up the old tradition of once a policeman, always a policeman, in those days all policeman appeared to be very big, stern and really frightening men. I also recall the many horses and ponies, which were stabled down in the Co-op yard as we called it. There’s the tale told of a man who made a habit of being out with his very big bucket ad dustpan. Another man on one occasion decided that he would fill his bucket, the regular man called out to him “You want to make yourself a member before you start fetching that.” So much for being a member of the Co-op. Jenny |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/16/2005 5:28:35 PM Jenny - it definitely states that Cecil Berle was a comedian? Go to 'Family History Topics' for the Cecil Berle Thread. Interesting. Obviously, a man of many talents. Azzabuv. |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 8/16/2005 6:42:11 PM it definitely states that Cecil Berle was a comedian? yes, looking at the photo he looks like a man of many talents. Jenny |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/21/2005 1:09:51 PM For many years the Co-op Youth Club and Drama Group was run by William(Bill)Pacey who lived on Plumtree Road He had a good following in the late 40/50s Running Table Tennis Teams and introducing youngsters to cricket and Tennis through the Co-op Sports facilities. |
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suzard
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replied on: 8/21/2005 1:49:11 PM Bill Pacey (of Plumptre Road) was a very well known member of the Coop. He worked for the Coop from leaving school until his retirement(except when fighting for his country while serving in the Royal Artillery from 1939-45) and played cricket for the Coop team as a young man.,he was president of the Heanor ladies Darts and Dominoes team and was a member of the Coop Drama Group until the hall closed in 1990-when the Drama Group moved to Aldercar Schhol for a couple of years until the cost of the hire of the school "put them out of business".Bill acted in many plays and also worked behind the scenes His last acting part was as "Baron Hardup" in the pantomime "Cinderella" in Dec 1987-he collapsed at a rehearsal and there was doubt as to wether he would appear in the production, but ever the trooper ,Bill managed to carry out his role in his wonderful comic actor style. Bill looked after the "front of house" in two more productions in 1989-Aladin being the last production he was involved in after which the Hall was closed. Bill died 21 Sept 1998 age 90, having been involved with the Coop for over 70 years. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/21/2005 2:30:58 PM i used to work at the co-op in the sixties in the paint shop at langley mill.we were assigned to eastwood painting division, but the yard was down at langley mill.i used to help a bloke out in the sign writing part,his name was doug i think.there was the milk float yard,funeral,cobblers,butchers and painting divisions all group together then.but like suzard says,it was quite big concern in those days. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 8/21/2005 6:49:45 PM Sue Are you related to Bill Pacey Have a Couple of Cricket Photographs One When Bill Played For Langley Mill United And one when he played for the Co-op aquired from his son Roy if of interest Peter |
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suzard
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replied on: 8/21/2005 10:22:32 PM No relation to Bill- I was in the drama group with him for abt 15 years and also knew him from Plumptre Rd-my grandparents and 3 Aunts lived close to him. Bill was a fine example of a Coop stalwart. Lovely man. As Ice boy said there was so much happening in the Coop yard-I loved the smell of the cobblers there. The Coop paint and wallpaper shop is now the mehran Indian restaurant.The Coop decoraters were la creme de la creme in 1950's! You really were someone if you had the Coop in to decorate!!! |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 8/21/2005 10:29:49 PM oh!! yes the decorators shop that belonged to the co-op also suzard.we used to go in there and now i am trying to remember who ran it. she look a little like a romany sort of person, always wearing golden earrings,bracelets etc. lovely woman she was.trying to think of the decorators who i worked with,i think someone called cyril, his wife used to work at the eastwood shop and mr bednall ran the eastwood co-op decorating shop.there used to be a shop opposite the co-op yard also?.the co-op shops consisted of grocery,tailors,furniture,bank.i think it was the main office as well.it was an hive of activity in those days. |
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