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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Not really sure of the status of Smalley Common - should this post be on the West Hallam etc forum? Anyway, a query from Jack Hallam, via the main website? "Have you any info on Smalley Common? As a boy I seem to remember a Gas Holder and Shop selling gas mantles/cookers located on the left hand side of the road approaching the Rose and Crown cross roads from Ilkeston. It was the last house/shop before the cross roads and the building was set at an angle facing towards Ilkeston. Now have I dreamt it or was it there? I cannot ever remember seeing any form of Gas making plant there but the ground around was always unkept as if something had been there." Has anyone got any similar recollections? [/quote]
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replied on: 3/16/2005 10:23:16 PM

Not really sure of the status of Smalley Common - should this post be on the West Hallam etc forum?

Anyway, a query from Jack Hallam, via the main website?

"Have you any info on Smalley Common?

As a boy I seem to remember a Gas Holder and Shop selling gas mantles/cookers located on the left hand side of the road approaching the Rose and Crown cross roads from Ilkeston.

It was the last house/shop before the cross roads and the building was set at an angle facing towards Ilkeston. Now have I dreamt it or was it there?

I cannot ever remember seeing any form of Gas making plant there but the ground around was always unkept as if something had been there."

Has anyone got any similar recollections?

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