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Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/26/2004 12:24:21 AM You've lost me on that one. I've never heard of/about him. But apart from visiting Crick's a few times since, Marlpool was just a place you went through to get to the then pre-commercialised Shipley Park area of the late 1940s - 1950s. Wonderful countryside then too. Azzabuv.
abo1965	Crick's replied on: 9/25/2004 7:00:57 PM Can't remember a pole living nearby but do remember a bloke that used to wander around the estate called "George" As kids we were led to believe that he lived in a shed on the allotments And the man we thought was his son known as "Santa"
Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/25/2004 12:31:07 AM Hi, abo1965. Yes, that could be the official name, but down and around Coppice Colliery it was just plain 'Crick's', as you say. Did/do you happen to know a Pole named Ivan? Unfortunately i can't remember his surname, but i think he used to live round the area you give. I should think he's hitting the 60 mark plus by now. Azzabuv.
abo1965	Crick's replied on: 9/24/2004 10:26:57 PM I think it used to be called "Coppice side social club" Now its been knocked down and Country Park Tavern built in its place I used to live across the road at the bottom of Thorpehill Drive from the mid 70s to the mid 90s But it was always and still is known as cricks
Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/24/2004 2:22:58 PM The last visit i made there was in the Autumn of 1978, on a weekday. Obviously the wrong day for 'Life'. A dozen or so people sat quietly around and the one word which immediately sprang to mind was melancholia. Times they do a changeo. Azzabuv.
suzard Researcher	Crick's replied on: 9/24/2004 1:02:55 PM I remember going to Cricks early 1970's-lots of young people (I was one of them at that time) frequented it on the weekends -it was what might be called a "night club" -well you could dance to latest music!!!
Azzabuv This message was updated on 9/8/2004 10:30:07 AM by Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/8/2004 10:16:18 AM Crick's was the only name it was known by locally. If the pub had an official name, which i suppose it had, i can't remember it ever being mentioned. (Or seeing it). The reason you might not have heard of it in the 1980s plus, Robert, is that by then, it had returned to being just another pub. From 1965 onwards, many of the local miner participants of Crick's, (Coppice Colliery) had begun to travel to and live in pastures new, because the run-down of the Colliery began in February of that year. Such places as Selby, Cotgrave and various other far flung coal mines. I heard Crick's began to eventually quieten down from that date onward. Also, a lot of the ex-miners took up alternative local employment, but with quite a lot of the former comradeship of the mine disappearing. Azzabuv.
RMMee Moderator	Crick's replied on: 9/7/2004 8:57:42 PM I don't remember it at all (though if it didn't close till the 1980's, I would have thought I would do) - did it have a real name, besides Crick's?
Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/7/2004 12:26:47 PM I think you're absolutely correct with the surname. It definately rings a bell from way back in connection with the pub. Yes, at times, it was the talk of the area, especially in connection with various miners and their phenomenal wage losses, some on a regular basis. It passed the time on, i suppose. We visited Crick's a few times, but thankfully never on a Friday afternoon. Azzabuv.
chrisbrin	Crick's replied on: 9/7/2004 12:09:15 PM I think the place belonged to Crick Searson (Heanor Haulage?). Never went there myself, but I remember other people talking about it.
Azzabuv	Crick's replied on: 9/7/2004 11:10:53 AM Does anyone know where/when the name originated. It was the name of the pub situated on the edge of Shipley Park, where the newish 'The Country Park Tavern' now stands. It was a permanent Friday afternoon venue for quite a lot of the 1950s/60s Coppice miners. Wages were drawn early Friday afternoon and by closing time, quite a few wage packets were a lot lighter by the aid of shuffling either cards or dominoes. In some cases, even empty wage packets, as many a then laughing wife would agree. Crick's closed its doors permanently sometime in the mid to late 1980s? Does anyone know when it was first built and used as a pub? Azzabuv.

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