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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]The midland Hotel(now the Mill)is where my grandparents met. My grandfather had returned from military service in India and was staying there where my grandmother worked "in service". They married in 1889, so i assume that in the late 1800s it must have been quite a busy hotel.I recall in the 50s there used to be a mass exodus from the midland at 2-30pm to catch an extra 30 mins drinking time over the border into Nottinghamshire to the Great Northern, where licensing laws were different.[/quote]
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replied on: 7/5/2003 12:57:43 AM

The midland Hotel(now the Mill)is where my grandparents met. My grandfather had returned from military service in India and was staying there where my grandmother worked "in service". They married in 1889, so i assume that in the late 1800s it must have been quite a busy hotel.I recall in the 50s there used to be a mass exodus from the midland at 2-30pm to catch an extra 30 mins drinking time over the border into Nottinghamshire to the Great Northern, where licensing laws were different.

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