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This message was updated on 3/24/2005 12:45:51 PM by Azzabuv

 Peacock Town
replied on: 3/8/2005 12:51:32 PM
Yes, Robert, there was quite a few various gangs living down there during the 50s, when i was around there.

I believe it got its rough reputation long before that time though, but sorry, can't enlighten you as to that previous time, or why.
As a youngster, (single figure years) it was always, from my other Heanor friends - "NOT going down there. Never". But i eventually met some 'Peacock Towners', in my early teens, at Loscoe Rd; School. We all just 'clicked' together - hence Loui's and Loscoe Dam Etc. later.

The place itself was a smallish housing estate, stretching partway towards the old railway station in one direction and in the other, practically upto the entrance of the driveway of Fall House, or the Falls. The bulk of the estate was built back in the direction of Heanor - the bottom of the steep fields, as it once was and next to the once small, steep lane, which led you upto Heanor Market Place. (Past the original Heanor Hall).

The two main streets were/are - Newlands Drive and (Cecil?) Berle Avenue.
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