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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Loomis, ok, now you have me hunting for the Derby A-Z !!!! lol. I only get to Derby about 4 times a year, so not too familiar with street names !! Right, Grammer St is still there, and is off Loscoe-Denby Lane, and does now reach High Street. In the 50's there was no High Street, just open fields and the pit head, the shop I remember may well be the post office on the corner, but I recall it being a shop that sold everything, groceries (butter by the chunk, paddled into a rectangle with wooden bats then wrapped in brown paper, tied with string, haberdashery, sweets, cleaning thigs - anything and everything. I wasn't allowed to go and wait for my grandfather any further than the shop, because my grandma could see me from the front window there !! It was definitely down a couple of steps though, but that was, of course 46 years ago! I think the little chapel was opposite the shop. Denby Common was (and still is, of course) on the opposite side of the road to the shop and Grammer St. Looking at my A-Z, Loscoe Dam is indeed just further down, so the Ormonde seems more likely.......also, as you can see by Jennypeg's post, my grandfathers relatives worked in the Ormonde pit !![/quote]
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Sue R

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replied on: 11/13/2006 9:22:23 PM

Loomis, ok, now you have me hunting for the Derby A-Z !!!! lol. I only get to Derby about 4 times a year, so not too familiar with street names !! Right, Grammer St is still there, and is off Loscoe-Denby Lane, and does now reach High Street. In the 50's there was no High Street, just open fields and the pit head, the shop I remember may well be the post office on the corner, but I recall it being a shop that sold everything, groceries (butter by the chunk, paddled into a rectangle with wooden bats then wrapped in brown paper, tied with string, haberdashery, sweets, cleaning thigs - anything and everything. I wasn't allowed to go and wait for my grandfather any further than the shop, because my grandma could see me from the front window there !! It was definitely down a couple of steps though, but that was, of course 46 years ago! I think the little chapel was opposite the shop. Denby Common was (and still is, of course) on the opposite side of the road to the shop and Grammer St. Looking at my A-Z, Loscoe Dam is indeed just further down, so the Ormonde seems more likely.......also, as you can see by Jennypeg's post, my grandfathers relatives worked in the Ormonde pit !!

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