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Shops in Langley Mill replied on: 4/7/2004 10:49:20 AM More Coop-further up Cromford Road-approx opposite Cambell Street: Coop Cobblers Coop Wedding and funeral cars Coop Milk Depot for horses and later electric milk floats Coop Coal Wharf Langley Mill was the Coop! Langley Mill Coop Hall (noe the Bridge Centre had its own Amateur Dramatic Group, also evening classes were held there .Every year the Coop exhibition was held there-home made cakes, handwriting, vegetables,needlework, rug making-certificates were given out for "best of". Also "Langley Mill Races"-not a sport event-this was the day when everyone rushed to the Coop Hall to collect their "divi"-If you were a member of the Coop you were given a number which you quoted everytime you purchased anything from the Coop and you received a receipt- then once a year a percentage of what you had spent was paid out at the Coop Hall-it was a race to see who could get there first-hence "Langley Mill Races". I remember we kept all the receipts in a shoe box and during the week before the "Races" we used to count how much we had spent during the year. Woe betide us if we did ran an errand to the Coop and forgot to give our mothers number-I still remember the number today. As for Stanways-I remember it well-an Alladins cave of all that sparkled-always a place to get Mum's Christmas present_I still have sparkly earrings which were purchased from there for my Mother - never have occasion to wear them nowadays!!! Further on from Stanways was Lucas Shoe Shop -which sold cheap fashion shoes - we all went there in the 1950's to purchase high fashion black "ballerina" pumps at Half a Crown a pair!!!

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