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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Hi rob yes we did move to cromford road, the council had to knock two houses into one for us,well there was 13 of us! 115 cromford road next door to kettering tyres. There must have been a black cloud over cromford road that day! East view terrace and the gas tanks are my fondest memories, after all the gas tanks were our playground and dont forget that pickersgill and frost (canlin castings)were at the end of the street, also Alan Eyres,who i think made office furniture. The scrapyard that you refer to at the bottom of north street, was a haulage firm, and the tank that you saw could have been a bulldozer or dumper, i cant remember the name, my uncle used to work there, i will try and find out. Anyway, back to east view terrace, it was a row of 14 houses,everyone called it penders row, doesn,t it sound great, East view terrace! and the view! wow, two big bloody great gas tanks, but as kids, they were fantastic,what a playground. Aristoc was another one of our favourite places, you will probably remember the double decker buses that used to line up on north street to bring and take the hundreds of workers, well, the canteen that used to feed all these people was a great place for free food,! we found out that between the hours of 7 and 8 on certain evenings the canteen would be empty of people but the food was left out, maybe for the nightshift, we just helped ourselves and went onto the railway bridge to scoff our "find". There was also a little field at east view terrace, where we used to play football, Ebeneezer st. vs our lot, do you remember dave lime or line? nigel fewster or patrick hempsall ? all from ebo street. what about the shop on north street! think it was called townsends, and the man who lived a few houses down from the shop who used to frighten the life out of us, i think his name was harry, a dirty looking old man that chewed tobacco and spit everywhere. Derek turtons shop, near the bottom of north st. loved that shop, can still smell the parafin heater he had on to keep warm in winter, and who could forget stan, in the beeroff on the corner of north st. we always called the shop ' pies'. Happy and sad memories of growing up in langley mill. but at least we could play out and roam around in those days, it was safe, not like today. cheers kinza.[/quote]
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kinza

families of langley mill
replied on: 7/6/2004 11:00:17 AM

Hi rob
yes we did move to cromford road, the council had to knock two houses into one for us,well there was 13 of us!
115 cromford road next door to kettering tyres.
There must have been a black cloud over cromford road that day!
East view terrace and the gas tanks are my fondest memories, after all the gas tanks were our playground and dont forget that pickersgill and frost (canlin castings)were at the end of the street, also Alan Eyres,who i think made office furniture.
The scrapyard that you refer to at the bottom of north street, was a haulage firm, and the tank that you saw could have been a bulldozer or dumper, i cant remember the name, my uncle used to work there, i will try and find out.
Anyway, back to east view terrace, it was a row of 14 houses,everyone called it penders row, doesn,t it sound great, East view terrace! and the view! wow, two big bloody great gas tanks, but as kids, they were fantastic,what a playground.
Aristoc was another one of our favourite places, you will probably remember the double decker buses that used to line up on north street to bring and take the hundreds of workers, well, the canteen that used to feed all these people was a great place for free food,! we found out that between the hours of 7 and 8 on certain evenings the canteen would be empty of people but the food was left out, maybe for the nightshift, we just helped ourselves and went onto the railway bridge to scoff our "find".
There was also a little field at east view terrace, where we used to play football, Ebeneezer st. vs our lot, do you remember dave lime or line? nigel fewster or patrick hempsall ? all from ebo street.
what about the shop on north street! think it was called townsends, and the man who lived a few houses down from the shop who used to frighten the life out of us, i think his name was harry, a dirty looking old man that chewed tobacco and spit everywhere.
Derek turtons shop, near the bottom of north st. loved that shop, can still smell the parafin heater he had on to keep warm in winter, and who could forget stan, in the beeroff on the corner of north st. we always called the shop ' pies'.
Happy and sad memories of growing up in langley mill. but at least we could play out and roam around in those days, it was safe, not like today.
cheers
kinza.

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