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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]It’s that time of year and people with allotments will be very busy but in 1921 it wasn’t veg but coal coming out of the ground! COAL MINING AT LANGLEY MILL SHAFT IN MILNAY STREET ALLOTMENT GARDENS Ripley & Heanor News 1921 (The photo is very poor) The above is a photo of one of some thirty shafts, which have been sunk during the past few weeks on Milnhay Allotments at Langley Mill, belonging to Heanor Urban District Council. Some of the shafts were about 10 to 12 feet deep, and seams of outcrop coal five to six feet thick. Operations are now stopped and the shafts filled in legal proceedings for damages having been talked of. Nevertheless numerous lorry loads of coal have been taken into Nottingham and sold retail, whilst nearly every conceivable article has been used by local people to carry off some of the “black diamonds” for home consumption. [/quote]
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 2/28/2008 12:21:58 PM

It’s that time of year and people with allotments will be very busy but in 1921 it wasn’t veg but coal coming out of the ground!

COAL MINING AT LANGLEY MILL
SHAFT IN MILNAY STREET ALLOTMENT GARDENS
Ripley & Heanor News 1921
(The photo is very poor)

The above is a photo of one of some thirty shafts, which have been sunk during the past few weeks on Milnhay Allotments at Langley Mill, belonging to Heanor Urban District Council. Some of the shafts were about 10 to 12 feet deep, and seams of outcrop coal five to six feet thick. Operations are now stopped and the shafts filled in legal proceedings for damages having been talked of. Nevertheless numerous lorry loads of coal have been taken into Nottingham and sold retail, whilst nearly every conceivable article has been used by local people to carry off some of the “black diamonds” for home consumption.

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