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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]If you go to the end of Hands Rd; (across from where 'IT' was, on the right) and go down the short incline at the beginning/end of Laciefields Rd; at the bottom of it, on the left, was a rough surfaced lane which led to the colliery and a few rows of terraced houses quite near to it. This was in the 1940s. The colliery consisted of half a dozen ram-shackle buildings and railway tracks, situated quite close to the houses. I remember the 'screens' building had a few slates missing and i used to lob stones through it occasionally, till the screen shop manager paid a visit to our house there, one day. Honestly, these spoilsports. There are now quite a few newer houses situated on and around the vanished colliery and terraced houses site to day. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 12/29/2004 1:27:56 PM by Azzabuv

New Langley Colliery
replied on: 12/29/2004 1:23:46 PM

If you go to the end of Hands Rd; (across from where 'IT' was, on the right) and go down the short incline at the beginning/end of Laciefields Rd; at the bottom of it, on the left, was a rough surfaced lane which led to the colliery and a few rows of terraced houses quite near to it. This was in the 1940s.
The colliery consisted of half a dozen ram-shackle buildings and railway tracks, situated quite close to the houses.

I remember the 'screens' building had a few slates missing and i used to lob stones through it occasionally, till the screen shop manager paid a visit to our house there, one day. Honestly, these spoilsports.

There are now quite a few newer houses situated on and around the vanished colliery and terraced houses site to day.
Azzabuv.

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