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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Nice one, Peter. JOE PYES has now been turned into flats. NELLIE OUTRAMS was opp the (at one time) Pottery, near the bus stop- we called that bus stop "Pottery Lane" stop, but many called the stop "Nellie Outram's"-even the bus conductors referred to it as this. HOLFORDS was (unofficially) the school tuck shop for Langley Mill Girls-they made their own "penny ice lollies"-frozen Vimto on a stick! MAXFIELDS is now SHEPPARDS upholstery. I remember who I always thought was Mrs Maxfield-a dark haired lady always wearing an immaculate white overall/coat. They used to have small bowls in the shop window filled with all kinds of dried /ground herbs-each one labelled with a handwritten card telling you what they were-fascinating-well to me at least! W. PHILLIPS was next to Marshalls cafe-now all demolished, then on the Croft,(site of Teathers Chip shop)-now part of a car park-then corner of Bridge St-now the premises have been turned into flats. It was run by Billy Phillips and then his son Billy-and changed from radio etc to a bicycle shop, JIM HEATHS garage became SHILLING AND BRIDGE-still a garage today, can't remember what it is called. GEORGE HOLBROOK stone mason Upper Dunsted Rd-I remember that-a house with various headstones etc on display in the front garden-you could choose your headstone on the walk up to Aldercar cemetery!!!!![/quote]
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This message was updated on 10/12/2005 8:26:18 PM by suzard

Shops in Langley Mill
replied on: 10/12/2005 11:21:52 AM

Nice one, Peter.
JOE PYES has now been turned into flats.
NELLIE OUTRAMS was opp the (at one time) Pottery, near the bus stop- we called that bus stop "Pottery Lane" stop, but many called the stop "Nellie Outram's"-even the bus conductors referred to it as this.
HOLFORDS was (unofficially) the school tuck shop for Langley Mill Girls-they made their own "penny ice lollies"-frozen Vimto on a stick!
MAXFIELDS is now SHEPPARDS upholstery. I remember who I always thought was Mrs Maxfield-a dark haired lady always wearing an immaculate white overall/coat. They used to have small bowls in the shop window filled with all kinds of dried /ground herbs-each one labelled with a handwritten card telling you what they were-fascinating-well to me at least!
W. PHILLIPS was next to Marshalls cafe-now all demolished, then on the Croft,(site of Teathers Chip shop)-now part of a car park-then corner of Bridge St-now the premises have been turned into flats.
It was run by Billy Phillips and then his son Billy-and changed from radio etc to a bicycle shop,
JIM HEATHS garage became SHILLING AND BRIDGE-still a garage today, can't remember what it is called.
GEORGE HOLBROOK stone mason Upper Dunsted Rd-I remember that-a house with various headstones etc on display in the front garden-you could choose your headstone on the walk up to Aldercar cemetery!!!!!

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