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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Nearly everyone I met after leaving Langley Mill lived in real places, ie a town, village or a city. I came from Langley Mill which wasn't, so far as I knew, any of these. We had no power, no town hall or council - the power was in Heanor. Later I lived about as far from the centre of Huddersfield as Langley Mill is from Heanor, in a place with a seperate name but it was okay to just say Huddersfield. Not so with Langley Mill, we were fiercly proud of not being Heanor - I suppose it was some kind of anarchistic tendency - clinging to our non-existance?! Did Langley Mill miss its chance when it had as strong an economic punch as Heanor to gain its independence? Did Langley Mill suffer as a result of being some kind of annex? What did they care about us in Heanor with out Notts postal address? And to complicate it further there was Aldercar (and Stoneyford) as well![/quote]
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What is/was Langley Mill Anyway?
replied on: 11/30/2005 11:37:08 PM

Nearly everyone I met after leaving Langley Mill lived in real places, ie a town, village or a city. I came from Langley Mill which wasn't, so far as I knew, any of these. We had no power, no town hall or council - the power was in Heanor. Later I lived about as far from the centre of Huddersfield as Langley Mill is from Heanor, in a place with a seperate name but it was okay to just say Huddersfield. Not so with Langley Mill, we were fiercly proud of not being Heanor - I suppose it was some kind of anarchistic tendency - clinging to our non-existance?!
Did Langley Mill miss its chance when it had as strong an economic punch as Heanor to gain its independence?
Did Langley Mill suffer as a result of being some kind of annex? What did they care about us in Heanor with out Notts postal address?
And to complicate it further there was Aldercar (and Stoneyford) as well!

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