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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I remember "the boats" aswe used to call them-Sunday afternoons they were quite busy-especially after the Midland and Northern"turned out"-I remember on two occasions"inebriated" men hiring a boat and falling into the canal before they had moved more than a few feet. Wlking the canal bank(or "cutside") was a regular Summer Sunday afternoon stroll-didn't see much scenery-just plenty of boys fishing!!! Anyone remember the old decaying narrowboat on the canal? It seemed to have always been there. We used to make up tales about what had happened to the people who once lived on it-eventually we believed it was haunted and used to hurry by it.Those were the days-half of Langley Mill used to be on the "cutside" on a Sunday![/quote]
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Erewash, Cromford and Nottm. Canal Junction.
replied on: 11/23/2004 3:16:24 PM

I remember "the boats" aswe used to call them-Sunday afternoons they were quite busy-especially after the Midland and Northern"turned out"-I remember on two occasions"inebriated" men hiring a boat and falling into the canal before they had moved more than a few feet.
Wlking the canal bank(or "cutside") was a regular Summer Sunday afternoon stroll-didn't see much scenery-just plenty of boys fishing!!! Anyone remember the old decaying narrowboat on the canal? It seemed to have always been there. We used to make up tales about what had happened to the people who once lived on it-eventually we believed it was haunted and used to hurry by it.Those were the days-half of Langley Mill used to be on the "cutside" on a Sunday!

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