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digb	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 7/20/2008 1:59:03 PM do you recall fanny henson??
digb	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 7/20/2008 1:56:00 PM i went to marlpool and played shinty my old school teacher lives next door!!! remember mr wain,mr bailey etc
philfred	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 4/12/2005 1:08:18 PM I have probably got the Tudor boys names mixed up. There is so much swimming between the ears with regard to Heanor and district. The Clarkes lived in the mid to late 50s in either the second or fourth house on the right, from the bottom, as you go down the street. Just a thought could Simon Clarke have been in long term foster care? The Tudors on the start of the jitty at the end of the street, used to have the Derby Evening Telegraph. I think I delivered two more papers, one at start and one about the middle. regards Phil
bobbrown	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 4/10/2005 9:02:13 PM Phil I'd need oxygen now to walk from the bottom of Lee Lane to the top of Breach Road!! When I lived on Kew Crescent, the Tudor family had sons called Patrick and Frank, can't remember Alan. Mr Tudor used to replace the house windows we broke playing street footie! Can't remember any Clarke's though.
philfred	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 4/9/2005 10:52:38 AM Yes Bob, it was the bottom of Lee Lane and it put a good 5 to 10 minutes on the round. It was not bad when it was not raining but getting home drenched made me glad to be in the dry. The error was caused by memory overload (mine not the computer), reading from a street map and trying to get the text in. Couple of names from Kew Crescent, Tudor and Clark(e?) families, I knew vaguely Alan Tudor and Simon Clarke from Clara Mount Junior School. I am going to get rich by producing the Blind as a Bat Street Atlas series for people with normal eye sight who have problems reading text in very small print. It's just the an idea, at the moment, must get in touch with Sir Alan Sugar for financial backing. regards Phil
bobbrown	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 4/8/2005 3:54:13 PM Philfred- I used to live on Kew Crescent at that time,but can't remember whether we got our papers from Robinson's or Sutcliffes' at Langley Mill. do you mean the bottom of Lee Lane for your stray delivery? You must have hated that!
philfred	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 3/31/2005 3:16:15 PM I used to deliver papers for Billy Robinson way back when. The route was Breach Road, Mill Road, Prospect Road, East street, back onto Breach Road Ashforth Avenue, (Macintoshs Factory ring any bells) all the way down onto Kew Crescent and one ~*^%$£ paper all the way at the bottom of Lacey Fields Road. The bungalow was the third up from the railway fence. Back onto Breach Road turn right onto Clara Mount Road onto Ella Bank Road then up the jitty onto Millbank, last paper to the vicarage. I then went home via Mill Road ( past the Wood residence, where are you now Renate? but thats another story as they say.) Breach Road down Sunningdale Avenue onto Coppice Drive. I got both sides of the hill, 24 Nottingham Evening Post 42 Derby Evening Telegraphs and 40 is Heanor Observers on a Thursday. Six evenings a week all for the magnificent sum of 14 bob (70p) a week. Always used to see Barry out and about with the papers. regards Phil
Iceboy53	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 3/18/2005 10:40:02 PM i remember tom kew also. and the cane!. he used to read a story of some sort each friday before we finished. those shinty days we're great although the playground didn't actually meet the standards of levelness.
bobbrown	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 2/25/2005 11:56:02 PM I remember Mr Kew as a rather kindly man, although I certainly had my share of "stick". We used to play a game called "shinty" on the tarmaced playground - sort of hockey.
philfred	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 2/22/2005 6:17:33 PM The guy on the corner of Prospect was named Kenny. He always seemed to be dressed in boots, dungarees, collarless shirt and jacket. Sometimes used to see him on way to and from Clara Mount school. Tommy Kew was Headmaster and we used think something was wrong if we had not been given at least one stroke of the cane before going home.
suzard Researcher	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 12/29/2004 11:44:53 PM I never went to that chapel youth club-but my husband did-when the chapel was demolished-I belive there was a wall which had been signed by a lot of members of the youth club-and I heard that someone in Langley either kept (or distributed among people who attended) the signed bricks
bobbrown	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 12/29/2004 11:04:17 PM The Fletchers used to live at the corner of Ella Bank Road and Clara Mount Road. They were regulars at the Methodist Chapel in Langley (now demolished). We used to have to attend the Sunday night service in order to be allowed to go to the Youth Club in the hall afterwards. Maybe two dozen reluctant teenagers would swell the congregation, with many a visiting minister thinking that we were keen to do "groovy" things with guitars - not! There was nothing else to do in those days - no pictures on a Sunday, too young to get in the pub. Table tennis, Elvis and Cliff Richard on the record player and the odd snog behind the pipe organ! + the odd bottle of beer from the beer-off over the road if we were lucky!
Iceboy53	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 12/27/2004 7:36:39 PM they're the ones well done!!! i do remember barry very well, he was a grand youth although not the cleverest one i admit, he always had a smile. now if we could just find out who the guy was that used to stand at the top of prospect rd, i have a feeling it was kenny moore?.
suzard Researcher	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 12/27/2004 6:21:32 PM I know Fletchers used to deliver in the Marlpool area-their son Barry used to deliver a lot of them-Barry was considered to be "not very bright", but everone knew him and chatted to him-he had lots of friends. Sadly Barry died very suddenly a few years ago-maybe 10 years ago-he collapsed in a pub-I think it may have been the Butchers arms and I think he died then or on the way to hospital. His passing was another Langley character gone!Sutcliffes at Langley Mill also used to deliver around Langley(in 50's)-I went on a round with a friend a few times-but those long gardens !!!!
Iceboy53	Paperboy in Marlpool replied on: 12/27/2004 10:12:10 AM Can anyone remember the people who bought the papers round, was it fletchers ? and who was the guy who used to stand on the corner of prospect rd near columbells cake shop in the 50s and 60s ?

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