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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]It would be Parliament Square,or the Croft as we knew it, Robert. I remember the floods ocurring a few times in 1950's and early 60's. They always seemed to start from the area at the back of the Croft -sometimes they stopped at the bottom of Queen St, sometimes they went a little further. We thought it was wonderful - a few of the boys made rafts out of planks of wood attached to the old crisp tins (Everest crisp tins!!) and we were given rides through the floods (Langley Mill regatta!!).The milkman waded through the floods to make deliveries - I remember the people who lived in the shops opposite the Croft lowering baskets on rope from the upstairs windows so the milkman could "deliver" - Then, probably late fifties, early 1960's -the "pipes" arrived -the back of the Croft housed enormous white pipes - as high as an adult -and for a long time work was carried out which was to end the fear (or in our case excitement) of flooding. The"pipes" were a another source of entertainment for the local children - they became climbing frames, tunnels, and if anyone could climb astride them, they became Silver, the Lone rangers horse. In the evenings the "pipes" became secluded places for courting couples -but that's enough about that.....[/quote]
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This message was updated on 5/25/2007 7:16:57 PM by suzard

Langley Mill Floods
replied on: 5/25/2007 7:13:45 PM

It would be Parliament Square,or the Croft as we knew it, Robert.
I remember the floods ocurring a few times in 1950's and early 60's. They always seemed to start from the area at the back of the Croft -sometimes they stopped at the bottom of Queen St, sometimes they went a little further. We thought it was wonderful - a few of the boys made rafts out of planks of wood attached to the old crisp tins (Everest crisp tins!!) and we were given rides through the floods (Langley Mill regatta!!).The milkman waded through the floods to make deliveries - I remember the people who lived in the shops opposite the Croft lowering baskets on rope from the upstairs windows so the milkman could "deliver" - Then, probably late fifties, early 1960's -the "pipes" arrived -the back of the Croft housed enormous white pipes - as high as an adult -and for a long time work was carried out which was to end the fear (or in our case excitement) of flooding. The"pipes" were a another source of entertainment for the local children - they became climbing frames, tunnels, and if anyone could climb astride them, they became Silver, the Lone rangers horse. In the evenings the "pipes" became secluded places for courting couples -but that's enough about that.....

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