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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]16th Feb 1990 Mr. G.H. Watson CO-OP HALL MEMORIES Sir, In one of your recent editions it was made known that the “Langley Mill Co-op Players” had received the news that their headquarters in Cromford Road was to close. This could almost be called the end of an era as far as buildings own by the one time Langley Mill and Aldercar Co-operative Society is concerned. My early memories of the hall are when a coloured gentleman would make an annual visit, and most of the children in Langley Mill and Aldercar by admission of I think 2d would attend. He would tell a few stories, sing and play the piano, I do not know whether his last visit was sweet or not, but I know that it was very very short, I think that this was the reason he never appeared on the scene anymore. In those days the hall appeared to be in constant use, dances, social evenings, exhibitions, wedding receptions, concerts. Mr. Albert Lesson, organist at the one time Primitive Methodist Church in Cromford Road would organise a concert for church funds and taking part would be such names as Mr and Mrs Lew Thompson, Charlie and Florence Mason, Mrs Gladys Carter, Mr Sidney Rouse, Mr Ernest Newbold, Mr Stanley Woolley, Mrs lesson’s brother-in-law, Mr Eddie Carlin with Cecil Berle, comedian of Heanor, and many more I could recall. Then of course there would be the quarterly meetings when members would use their votes to elect various people onto the committees. Following the voting the usual business meeting would be held and it was a well-known fact that these meetings were not always of a quiet nature, questions would be asked by some of the members and the answers were not always acceptable. I always remember passing the hall one night when one of the meeting had just ended, one man called out to another, “I told you its been better than going to the pictures.” I remember Mr. Moore who lived in Thompson Street being one of the caretakers. Mr. Moore was, I think, a retired policeman and he kept up the old tradition of once a policeman, always a policeman, in those days all policeman appeared to be very big, stern and really frightening men. I also recall the many horses and ponies, which were stabled down in the Co-op yard as we called it. There’s the tale told of a man who made a habit of being out with his very big bucket ad dustpan. Another man on one occasion decided that he would fill his bucket, the regular man called out to him “You want to make yourself a member before you start fetching that.” So much for being a member of the Co-op. Jenny[/quote]
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Jennypeg
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Langley Mill Coop
replied on: 8/16/2005 4:23:35 PM

16th Feb 1990
Mr. G.H. Watson
CO-OP HALL MEMORIES

Sir, In one of your recent editions it was made known that the “Langley Mill Co-op Players” had received the news that their headquarters in Cromford Road was to close.
This could almost be called the end of an era as far as buildings own by the one time Langley Mill and Aldercar Co-operative Society is concerned.
My early memories of the hall are when a coloured gentleman would make an annual visit, and most of the children in Langley Mill and Aldercar by admission of I think 2d would attend.
He would tell a few stories, sing and play the piano, I do not know whether his last visit was sweet or not, but I know that it was very very short, I think that this was the reason he never appeared on the scene anymore.
In those days the hall appeared to be in constant use, dances, social evenings, exhibitions, wedding receptions, concerts.
Mr. Albert Lesson, organist at the one time Primitive Methodist Church in Cromford Road would organise a concert for church funds and taking part would be such names as Mr and Mrs Lew Thompson, Charlie and Florence Mason, Mrs Gladys Carter, Mr Sidney Rouse, Mr Ernest Newbold, Mr Stanley Woolley, Mrs lesson’s brother-in-law, Mr Eddie Carlin with Cecil Berle, comedian of Heanor, and many more I could recall. Then of course there would be the quarterly meetings when members would use their votes to elect various people onto the committees.
Following the voting the usual business meeting would be held and it was a well-known fact that these meetings were not always of a quiet nature, questions would be asked by some of the members and the answers were not always acceptable.
I always remember passing the hall one night when one of the meeting had just ended, one man called out to another, “I told you its been better than going to the pictures.”
I remember Mr. Moore who lived in Thompson Street being one of the caretakers.
Mr. Moore was, I think, a retired policeman and he kept up the old tradition of once a policeman, always a policeman, in those days all policeman appeared to be very big, stern and really frightening men.
I also recall the many horses and ponies, which were stabled down in the Co-op yard as we called it. There’s the tale told of a man who made a habit of being out with his very big bucket ad dustpan. Another man on one occasion decided that he would fill his bucket, the regular man called out to him “You want to make yourself a member before you start fetching that.”
So much for being a member of the Co-op.

Jenny

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