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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Very true. Can there be a town of similar size in the UK that has changed so radically over such a short time? Look at the list since say, 1980. Closed include the Pottery, Dairy, Vic Hallams, Aristoc, The working men's club, the former British legion,the railway sidings ripped up, among others. Housing built on almost all the green field sites I played on as a boy, most of the shops gone, Netto precinct built etc etc. If you go back a little further in time there used to be the gas works next to Aristoc, the railway line from ormonde pit and the pit itself, not demolished till 1980 or so although derelict since 1971. And all the changes have been for the worse. Langley Mill could never have been described as picturesque but it used to be thriving community, now look at it. [/quote]
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Russell Saxton

Vic Hallams
replied on: 8/31/2003 6:40:14 PM

Very true. Can there be a town of similar size in the UK that has changed so radically over such a short time? Look at the list since say, 1980.
Closed include the Pottery, Dairy, Vic Hallams, Aristoc, The working men's club, the former British legion,the railway sidings ripped up, among others.
Housing built on almost all the green field sites I played on as a boy, most of the shops gone, Netto precinct built etc etc.
If you go back a little further in time there used to be the gas works next to Aristoc, the railway line from ormonde pit and the pit itself, not demolished till 1980 or so although derelict since 1971.
And all the changes have been for the worse. Langley Mill could never have been described as picturesque but it used to be thriving community, now look at it.

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