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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Yes, much of it is very familiar. I certainly remember the shops on North Street - there was also Walter the cobbler, just between Turton's and the Erewash - Walter Mayne was a fantastic bloke, and was very much into the canal restoration. I remember you moving into Cromford Road - probably my parents warned me to have nothing to do with you!!! (by that time I too lived on Cromford Road, opposite Gladstone Street). For those who don't know, Kettering Tyres, at the junction of Argyle Street, was previously a chapel. If they had to knock two houses into one on Cromford Road, how did you manage on Pender's Row? The houses there weren't exactly huge! I can't remember the field on East View Terrace, but I do remember Patrick Hempshall. In relation to the buses coming to Aristoc, I learned recently that there were 14 buses each dinnertime - and no doubt more at the start and end of the day - a huge number of people working in what was nowhere near the biggest employer in the area. The footbridge over the railway was a regular haunt of mine too - and, when they closed the railway station down, the passages under the track were even better for playing in. Later on, probably around 1969, I used to play on the railway itself - there was a workers' hut, near where the branch line over towards Moorgreen separated from the main line, which a group of us used as a den. The beer-off was called "Pye's," because Joseph Pye was the licensee for 20 years up until 1962 - it kept the name for years after he'd gone. The member of your family who was in the same year as me, was, I think, called Rodney. I can remember him at infant school, on Elnor Street, and possibly at Sedgwick Street juniors too, but don't recall him after that. I see that somebody called Eadie has recently signed the visitors book at the Heanor Heritage Centre - you, or another member of the family, I wonder? Anyway, it's brilliant the way that just the odd thing brings back the memories - I'll be glad to hear more, and, although there's no-one else joining in at the moment, I suspect that this is being read by many more! Cheers Robert<img src=http://www.far2cool.com/img/is.gif>[/quote]
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replied on: 7/9/2004 5:26:36 PM

Yes, much of it is very familiar. I certainly remember the shops on North Street - there was also Walter the cobbler, just between Turton's and the Erewash - Walter Mayne was a fantastic bloke, and was very much into the canal restoration.

I remember you moving into Cromford Road - probably my parents warned me to have nothing to do with you!!! (by that time I too lived on Cromford Road, opposite Gladstone Street). For those who don't know, Kettering Tyres, at the junction of Argyle Street, was previously a chapel. If they had to knock two houses into one on Cromford Road, how did you manage on Pender's Row? The houses there weren't exactly huge!

I can't remember the field on East View Terrace, but I do remember Patrick Hempshall.

In relation to the buses coming to Aristoc, I learned recently that there were 14 buses each dinnertime - and no doubt more at the start and end of the day - a huge number of people working in what was nowhere near the biggest employer in the area.

The footbridge over the railway was a regular haunt of mine too - and, when they closed the railway station down, the passages under the track were even better for playing in. Later on, probably around 1969, I used to play on the railway itself - there was a workers' hut, near where the branch line over towards Moorgreen separated from the main line, which a group of us used as a den.

The beer-off was called "Pye's," because Joseph Pye was the licensee for 20 years up until 1962 - it kept the name for years after he'd gone.

The member of your family who was in the same year as me, was, I think, called Rodney. I can remember him at infant school, on Elnor Street, and possibly at Sedgwick Street juniors too, but don't recall him after that.

I see that somebody called Eadie has recently signed the visitors book at the Heanor Heritage Centre - you, or another member of the family, I wonder?

Anyway, it's brilliant the way that just the odd thing brings back the memories - I'll be glad to hear more, and, although there's no-one else joining in at the moment, I suspect that this is being read by many more!

Cheers

Robert

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