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| abo1965 Quote | Reply | | Quarry Cottages posted on: 3/11/2003 11:13:41 PM Does anyone have any information or photos on the quarry cottages at woodlinkin I know they were formely owned by the local council and also by the butterly company but thats about all i know Thanks Alan |
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RMMee
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replied on: 3/12/2003 12:14:39 AM Alan I don't think I can help you at the moment, though I will look through my stuff as soon as I can. Hopefully another member can. Which were Quarry Cottages? Are they the row nearest to Aldercar, or the row up near the Thorntree? Hope you get a result, and thanks to taking part in the discussion. robert |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 3/12/2003 9:17:25 AM Alan Quarry Cottages are the first row of cottages boardering the road from Aldercar. An old O/S map i have names them as Quarry Houses,Would think originally built by Butterley company. The council did own at least some of them as i collected rent for them in the late 1980s As a boy during the war these where the last cottages the Langley Mill Post Office delivered mail too, all houses the other side being delivered from Codnor.The only family i recall living There were the Harbon Family. Peter Chamberlain |
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abo1965
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replied on: 3/17/2003 9:58:36 AM Thanks Peter I`ve heard about the harbon family living in the row and the butterley company and the council owning them However for such old buildings(built about 1852) in such a prominent position there isn`t much information about them i lived in the row of cottages for ten years now and have recently bought next door we are now in the process of knocking them into one house Someone once told me about the snow in 1947 being up to the windows Has anyone got any photos Thanks Alan |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 3/17/2003 5:10:58 PM Alan www.oldmaps.co.uk shows an 1884 map with the cottage's standing at the side of the road with Bell House to the rear they are not named but on my later map where they are named they are exactly the same shape and Garden Area. Suggest you try Heanor library for earlier maps and The Heanor History Society has many old photographs of the area. Peter |
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RMMee
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replied on: 3/18/2003 5:08:43 AM I know it may be a silly question, but if these are called Quarry Cottages, where was the quarry? |
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abo1965
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replied on: 3/18/2003 10:51:15 PM Thanks for the replies everyone The Quarry from what i have heard was in the dip somewhere between the cottages and brinsley someone told me it was on one of the old maps |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 3/19/2003 8:42:27 AM Alan There was a brickworks situated behind the houses on Ormond Street and the older cottages on Dunstead.My map shows a possible Quarry area i will send you a copy if you send your e-mail privately.The council also filled in with domestic waste behind The Durham Ox in the 1940s. Peter |
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RMMee
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replied on: 3/19/2003 6:38:40 PM If the brickyard is the "quarry," and I'm not sure that it would be, then this was owned by C.W. Hardy. There was a press cutting in 1911 about the local striking miners digging for coal there. The area had quite a lot of brickyards. I can't now remember which bricks were used in my first house, on Ebenezer Street, Langley Mill, though they were a local company. What I do remember was how solid they were!!!! The number of drill bits I got through when I live there! Two specifics I remember from when I rewired the house: - trying to chisel a chase through a single-layer wall, the brick pushed out the other side, through the plaster. - worse than that, my top-quality bolster chisel ended up getting bent, rather than the brick giving way! They don't make them like that any more!! |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 3/20/2003 8:18:50 AM Alan-Robert Found a quarry approx 1000 yds from Quarry Houses it is in the fields to the rear and shown as being behind Furnace lane If you look at the map i sent you Robert it is South of Bell House. Peter |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/27/2004 3:17:48 PM Hi, Peter and Robert, On the 1896 25 inch to the mile map, there appears to be an old field-working approximately mid-way between the cottages and Bell House. If it's not the old quarry, which you seem to have found above? - Any ideas? R.E. Bell House. Have you any history on this? Azzabuv. |
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