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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]The Coop in Langley Mill and Aldercar has a lot of history-shops, bank, dairy, coal wharf etc. Does anyone know where the Langley Mill Coop Employees Sportsground was situated?? Was Langley Mill cricket ground originally the home of this sports club? The Gazette 11 Jun 1937 "The sportsground provided for the employees of the Langley Mill and Aldercar Cooperative Society Ltd is a popular rendevous during these long summer days and the various sections of the Sports Club are busy on an interesting programme of fixtures.The ground is in excellent condition and cricket, bowls and tennis are in full swing.With a membership of forty the Bowls section has been able to arrange a number of friendly matches, having won one and lost two so far.With two hard tennis courts and three grass there is no lack of facilities for tennis players and all sections have the use of the exellent pavilion The coming years will see the employees occupying a much more prominent niche in local sport than hitherto." It must have covered quite a large area?????[/quote]
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replied on: 8/14/2005 5:15:25 PM

The Coop in Langley Mill and Aldercar has a lot of history-shops, bank, dairy, coal wharf etc.
Does anyone know where the Langley Mill Coop Employees Sportsground was situated?? Was Langley Mill cricket ground originally the home of this sports club?
The Gazette 11 Jun 1937
"The sportsground provided for the employees of the Langley Mill and Aldercar Cooperative Society Ltd is a popular rendevous during these long summer days and the various sections of the Sports Club are busy on an interesting programme of fixtures.The ground is in excellent condition and cricket, bowls and tennis are in full swing.With a membership of forty the Bowls section has been able to arrange a number of friendly matches, having won one and lost two so far.With two hard tennis courts and three grass there is no lack of facilities for tennis players and all sections have the use of the exellent pavilion The coming years will see the employees occupying a much more prominent niche in local sport than hitherto."
It must have covered quite a large area?????

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