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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Heanor a long time ago! RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS FRIDAY 4TH JULY 1975 WHEN HEANOR HAD ONLY TWO STREETS Tag Hill era recalled HEANOR 1867 – A vastly different place to the thriving market town of modern times, But a glance through our files revealed this account of old Heanor as recalled by a lady who arrived in the town more than 100 years ago. “I first set foot in Heanor at Langley Mill Station in March 1867. I walked up Heanor Lane, as Mansfield Road was then called. How different it was in those days! After passing the Baptist Chapel there were three or four cottages, and the house in which Mr. Bakewell, the manager of the Gas Works lived, with a lovely clematis jackmanni over the door. After passing the Horse and Jockey there were no houses except one by the brickyard, and a row till one reached the residence of Mr. George Gregory, and the weigh house on the left hand side at the bottom of what is now Holbrook Street. There was no footpath but many fine trees’, which in some places met overhead. One had to walk, as there was nothing to drive in in those days. In later years there was a cab, which you could hire from the Red Lion and for a time Mrs. Hickman ran an omnibus which met the trains. This afterwards was used to convey infectious cases to Calladine House. TWO STREETS I, think there were only two so-called streets Mount Street and Nelson Street. Other places were named Tag Hill, the City, Kingstown, Peacock Town, Back Lane, Boggart Town, Camomile Row, Nackey Row, Hard Meadow, Wood End, Wood Yard, Tan Yard, The Rookery, Red Hill, Workhouse Yard, Eggleshaw’s Row, Burton’s Row, Nigger Row, North Row, Nook End, Apsey Sic, Chain Row, The Alma, Fishponds, Coach Road, Barrack Yard and Providence Place. New America was the name given to the triangle formed by Wellington Street, Watkinson Street and Loscoe Road, which was then far away from the houses. There were few shops in the old days but Thomas Hardy, the draper below the Church, had a house inscribed, “1699 rebuilt 1800.” RED LION The Red Lion was old with a pear tree trained along its wall, and a tiny garden in front, and next below you went up some steps into a grocer’s shop, I remember the old Church - it was smaller, having but one aisle – there was a three-Decker pulpit, and square pews with doors to them and a gallery at the west end, the choir sat in it with the harmonium. The vestry was in the tower with a small door into it, the principal entrance being on the south side, where there was a porch. When the old church was pulled down services were held in the National School, but baptisms and marriages took place in the vestry. I was a bridesmaid there and proud of writing my name in the parish register as a witness. The registers dated back in 1559. The new church was opened on 2 November 1868. There is a chair in the choir vestry which was in the old Church, and the cup and pattern for the Holy Communion are still used; the oak altar was small for the larger building and is now in Marlpool Church. ONE FACE The clock had one face and had no chimes. The curfew was rung at eight o’clock and at seven o’clock on Saturdays. When I was a child there were only the National School and the Aldercar School. Boys used to walk to Smalley, where many Heanor boys could go to school. We had only one post in and one out, with a Sunday delivery and despatch at Langley Mill. The post office was at Tag Hill at the bottom of Mount Street and the postmistress was Miss Agnes Roscoe. Letters were taken to Derby by mail cart. There were no banks in Heanor then and neither was there a printing press. Dr Woolley was the only resident doctor, with a surgery at Codnor. Among the characters who came to church was blind John Poundall; instead of kneeling he would stand, hold his top hat in front of his face and say his prayers into it. He would travel alone to Nottingham from Langley Mill, and the well-known couplet refers to him: John Poundall, of Heanor Kissed his wife before he’d seen her. The wakes was a great time, attended by huge crowds and we also had much excitement when Ladysmith was relieved. FASHIONS And what changes in fashions! I wore half a crinolene and steel bands were inserted in the back of a foundation, the ends being tied with tapes. This gave place to a bustle, which getting smaller and smaller at length disappeared. We always wore a bonnet and walked out of doors in boots. People drove about the town in a gig, a landau, a Victoria, a cab, a fly, a Stanhope, a dogcart, a trap, a governess cart, or a barouche and then the bicycle appeared. There were no streetlights, we were governed by a local board and the population was under 5,000. At Marlpool there was a big windmill but this has gone and so has Marlpool Pond. What different place Heanor was in my youth![/quote]
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This message was updated on 9/8/2005 7:11:45 PM by RMMee

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Heanor a long time ago!

RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS
FRIDAY 4TH JULY 1975
WHEN HEANOR HAD ONLY TWO STREETS
Tag Hill era recalled
HEANOR 1867 – A vastly different place to the thriving market town of modern times, But a glance through our files revealed this account of old Heanor as recalled by a lady who arrived in the town more than 100 years ago.

“I first set foot in Heanor at Langley Mill Station in March 1867. I walked up Heanor Lane, as Mansfield Road was then called. How different it was in those days! After passing the Baptist Chapel there were three or four cottages, and the house in which Mr. Bakewell, the manager of the Gas Works lived, with a lovely clematis jackmanni over the door.
After passing the Horse and Jockey there were no houses except one by the brickyard, and a row till one reached the residence of Mr. George Gregory, and the weigh house on the left hand side at the bottom of what is now Holbrook Street. There was no footpath but many fine trees’, which in some places met overhead.
One had to walk, as there was nothing to drive in in those days. In later years there was a cab, which you could hire from the Red Lion and for a time Mrs. Hickman ran an omnibus which met the trains. This afterwards was used to convey infectious cases to Calladine House.

TWO STREETS
I, think there were only two so-called streets Mount Street and Nelson Street. Other places were named Tag Hill, the City, Kingstown, Peacock Town, Back Lane, Boggart Town, Camomile Row, Nackey Row, Hard Meadow, Wood End, Wood Yard, Tan Yard, The Rookery, Red Hill, Workhouse Yard, Eggleshaw’s Row, Burton’s Row, Nigger Row, North Row, Nook End, Apsey Sic, Chain Row, The Alma, Fishponds, Coach Road, Barrack Yard and Providence Place.

New America was the name given to the triangle formed by Wellington Street, Watkinson Street and Loscoe Road, which was then far away from the houses.
There were few shops in the old days but Thomas Hardy, the draper below the Church, had a house inscribed, “1699 rebuilt 1800.”

RED LION
The Red Lion was old with a pear tree trained along its wall, and a tiny garden in front, and next below you went up some steps into a grocer’s shop,
I remember the old Church - it was smaller, having but one aisle – there was a three-Decker pulpit, and square pews with doors to them and a gallery at the west end, the choir sat in it with the harmonium. The vestry was in the tower with a small door into it, the principal entrance being on the south side, where there was a porch.
When the old church was pulled down services were held in the National School, but baptisms and marriages took place in the vestry. I was a bridesmaid there and proud of writing my name in the parish register as a witness. The registers dated back in 1559. The new church was opened on 2 November 1868. There is a chair in the choir vestry which was in the old Church, and the cup and pattern for the Holy Communion are still used; the oak altar was small for the larger building and is now in Marlpool Church.

ONE FACE
The clock had one face and had no chimes. The curfew was rung at eight o’clock and at seven o’clock on Saturdays.
When I was a child there were only the National School and the Aldercar School. Boys used to walk to Smalley, where many Heanor boys could go to school.
We had only one post in and one out, with a Sunday delivery and despatch at Langley Mill. The post office was at Tag Hill at the bottom of Mount Street and the postmistress was Miss Agnes Roscoe. Letters were taken to Derby by mail cart.
There were no banks in Heanor then and neither was there a printing press. Dr Woolley was the only resident doctor, with a surgery at Codnor.
Among the characters who came to church was blind John Poundall; instead of kneeling he would stand, hold his top hat in front of his face and say his prayers into it. He would travel alone to Nottingham from Langley Mill, and the well-known couplet refers to him:
John Poundall, of Heanor
Kissed his wife before he’d seen her.
The wakes was a great time, attended by huge crowds and we also had much excitement when Ladysmith was relieved.
FASHIONS
And what changes in fashions!
I wore half a crinolene and steel bands were inserted in the back of a foundation, the ends being tied with tapes. This gave place to a bustle, which getting smaller and smaller at length disappeared. We always wore a bonnet and walked out of doors in boots.
People drove about the town in a gig, a landau, a Victoria, a cab, a fly, a Stanhope, a dogcart, a trap, a governess cart, or a barouche and then the bicycle appeared.
There were no streetlights, we were governed by a local board and the population was under 5,000.
At Marlpool there was a big windmill but this has gone and so has Marlpool Pond.
What different place Heanor was in my youth!

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