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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Robert, the house you mention set back from the road was also owned by Horace pearson -that is where he went to live when they demolished his house opposite the Mill (Midland) which was attached to his scrapyard. Don't know if Horace is still with us, but his son still runs the scrap yard.Horace's sister owned the bungalow next to the Red House opposite the Napier(think she had it built on family owned land) There are a few houses on Cromford Rd adjoining the Napier, but I think at one time part of what we consider to be the pub were actually separate cottages-the part going into the car park. 1881 census -enumerater walking up Cromford Rd from Langley Mill -past Durham Ox (transcribed as Denholm Ct) there are several more houses -then it lists John Bagguley Publican Cromford Rd Sir Charles Napier, next door Edward Hull Shoe maker (and family) next door john Woolley Coal Miner (with wife and 8 children) addresses for Hull and Woolley -Cromford Rd Sir Charles Napier -then the addresses revert back to just Cromford Road-this indicates there were 2 cottages after but adjoining the pub. I'm sure I remember as you turned into the pub car park there were windows which were very low down to the road -and I think they were private cottages. I'll ask Auntie-she has frequented the Napier for 65 years![/quote]
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This message was updated on 2/22/2006 9:45:53 PM by suzard

Charles Napier houses, Aldercar
replied on: 2/22/2006 9:23:21 PM

Robert, the house you mention set back from the road was also owned by Horace pearson -that is where he went to live when they demolished his house opposite the Mill (Midland) which was attached to his scrapyard. Don't know if Horace is still with us, but his son still runs the scrap yard.Horace's sister owned the bungalow next to the Red House opposite the Napier(think she had it built on family owned land) There are a few houses on Cromford Rd adjoining the Napier, but I think at one time part of what we consider to be the pub were actually separate cottages-the part going into the car park.
1881 census -enumerater walking up Cromford Rd from Langley Mill -past Durham Ox (transcribed as Denholm Ct) there are several more houses -then it lists John Bagguley Publican Cromford Rd Sir Charles Napier, next door Edward Hull Shoe maker (and family) next door john Woolley Coal Miner (with wife and 8 children) addresses for Hull and Woolley -Cromford Rd Sir Charles Napier -then the addresses revert back to just Cromford Road-this indicates there were 2 cottages after but adjoining the pub. I'm sure I remember as you turned into the pub car park there were windows which were very low down to the road -and I think they were private cottages. I'll ask Auntie-she has frequented the Napier for 65 years!

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