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Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 4/15/2006 10:22:48 AM Happy Easter everyone, EASTER FANTASY AT LOSCOE 26th April 1956 Past and present scholars of Codnor Secondary Modern School presented “Easter Fantasy” with the school choir, in the Loscoe Baptist Schoolroom on Good Friday evening, to a packed congregation (Mr. Hodgson headmaster of the school) gave the introduction. Those taking part were: Melda Land, Eileen Palfreyman, Molly Stone, Kathleen Parkin, Sheila Brown, Michael Sharp, Tony Foulkes, Terence Taylor, Alan Hutsby, Arthur Lacey, Olive Sharley, Mavis Ball, Norma Sunderland, Phyllis Land, Norman Perkins, Eric Singleton, Norman Myers, E. C. Sabido, and the school choir, under direction of Mrs. J. Pickering. The pianist was K. Chipsham? Dialogue and production by S. R. Weston; scenery construction and stage carpentry by A. Priestley; scenery design and painting, costume design and make-up M. Van Tinteren. The following poems were recited by the school choir; “The Little Black Boy” (William Blake); “The Donkey” (G. K. Chesterton); and “Simon, the Cyrenian, speaks” (Countee Cullen). Mr D. Tarlton thanked everyone who had made the evening such a success.
RMMee Moderator This message was updated on 2/21/2006 7:40:30 AM by RMMee	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 2/21/2006 7:37:38 AM If you look on the main website (www.HeanorHistory.org.uk) there is a map on the Forgotten Names page. The path is quite walkable, and once you get to the top of the hill, it is really nice countryside. It is easy to walk all the way through to Heanor Gate that way.
frontcentre	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 2/21/2006 4:52:18 AM Where exactly is Glue or Glew Lane? Is this down the side of the old Church Hall?
Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 9/20/2005 9:40:03 PM Hi Azzabuv, No, I've been in a different pool with sun and a pool bar! Jenny
Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 9/10/2005 8:16:10 PM Jenny. You aren't studying the effects of being 'up to the neck in it' for real, are you? Azzabuv.
Azzabuv This message was updated on 9/3/2005 3:46:11 PM by Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 9/3/2005 3:34:36 PM Reminiscing about the old farm and its farmyard at the bottom of Glew Lane, Jenny. As a nipper, i used to go through that yard quite a lot. If my memory IS correct, just inside the farmyard, from the roadway entrance, then turning towards the far left, there was a small pond of sorts. However, even then, the pond didn't seem sufficiently deep enough to cover the knees, let alone up to someones neck. Behind the farmhouse and actually on Glew Lane itself, there was a larger pond at the far right. This pond did not appear deeper than waist deep, but nowhere near neck-deep. Of course, if either of these ponds had been the scene of Mrs. Holroyd's neck-deep experience, then obviously, it had been filled in to a shallower depth with earth, obviously to prevent a further such occurrence. Azzabuv.
Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 8/31/2005 2:24:25 PM Hi Azza, I will have a walk round there and have a look. Jenny P.S.I can swim
Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 8/31/2005 2:15:56 PM I've never come across it, Jenny. Perhaps it was filled in. Somewhere near the old farmhouse? There is/was an old, muddy pond down by the side of the Loscoe Church, leading into the Dumbles, but it didn't appear deep enough for someone to stand in it up to their neck. Perhaps, if it was that one, it's got shallower over the years? Azzabuv.
Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 8/31/2005 2:07:08 PM Hi Azza, The Dam's not that deep, well not now. Is the pond still there up Glue Lane? Jenny
Azzabuv This message was updated on 8/31/2005 2:00:07 PM by Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 8/31/2005 1:46:11 PM Hi, Jen. You could be quite correct concerning the cause of George's death. But even today, wrong diagnoses of death are becoming more and more common. I was reading a case the other day, where a seriously ill woman was diagnosed for three different causes of her illness by three different Doctors. None of them were correct. Then, there was/is always the dreaded 'coma' mistake. It was interesting too, that the Mrs. Holroyd, asabove, was found standing up to her neck in the water also. If she had died, would there have been a another case of being found standing, but with her face lowered into the water? They say it appeared to be a form of mental illness. I wonder what classification the legend of the 'Calling' would be assigned to? It does, however, appear to be a bit late in the given time-frame for such a legend/myth to be in action. Interesting coincidence though? Azzabuv.
Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 8/31/2005 1:36:19 PM Hi, If George had a heart attack it would have said died from heart attack? what a way to go. here is another, but this one was saved. RIPLEY ADVERTISER APRIL 22ND 1893 ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LOSCOE GRANGE The village of Loscoe Grange, near Heanor, was thrown into great excitement on Tuesday morning by the announcement that the landlady of the Sir John Warren Inn, Loscoe Grange, had committed suicide. It appears that shortly after five o’clock on Tuesday morning two collies named John Draper and Edward Grainger were proceeding to their work at the Loscoe Colliery, and when near the bottom of Glue Lane they saw something in the duck pond at the back of Mr Shelton’s house. They hurried to the spot and found a female, in her night- dress, standing in the pond up to the neck in water and mud. The woman proved to be Mrs Holroyd, aged 29 years, wife of Thomas Holroyd, landlord of the Sir John Warren Inn, Loscoe Grange. Although in a pitiable condition the woman was alive, and was speedily removed by her rescuers to her home and restoratives applied. She had lately suffered from severe pains in the head, and had been rather peculiar at times. Mr Eames, of Heanor, was called in, and the unfortunate woman is now progressing favourably. No reason can be assigned by Mr Holroyd for his wife’s rash act, except her illness as stated above. Jenny
Azzabuv This message was updated on 5/25/2005 3:31:45 PM by Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 5/24/2005 5:51:49 PM Concerning George Thompson (above), who was found standing up... drowned in the Dam. After many days of restless sleep and endless brain wracking over that particular conundrum, surely, logically, he was among the tall reeds, which supported his body. If he drowned by just sticking his face under the water, well, that IS will-power. And then apparently, never thrashed about while he did it. But..... why did he go into the water in the first place? If drowning himself was his last deliberate action, perhaps he wedged himself on a couple or more of strong reeds first. If that was the way, he must have had nerves of steel - or was completely deranged for some reason at the time? Being deranged though, doesn't seem to fit in with such a pre-arranged plan of action on his part concerning any supporting reeds. Strange. But, there's always the 'Calling'. Late addendum. Alternatively, he was walking along the edge of the Dam, saw a large, injured bird/fish near the bankside, waded into the water, forgetting that that particular May day was cold and the water extremely cold, which resulted in a heart attack and an upright underwater root/branch snagged up the inside of his coat, holding him rigid in the deeper than expected cold water, till........??? Azzabuv.
Azzabuv This message was updated on 3/30/2005 10:13:35 PM by Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 3/30/2005 10:09:02 PM Well, they wouldn't have to worry about falling through the ice today. As for the trap/coach/bus manglisation, no thank you. I'll stick to my trusted 5 farthings, (first correct answer - wins a tonnip) it's safer.....till i stop, then it's every man and woman for themselves. Azzabuv.
Jennypeg Researcher	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 3/30/2005 3:15:34 PM lOSCOE IN 1885 / 1886 RIPLEY ADVERTISER 31ST JANUARY 1885 LOSCOE EXCITING SCENE On Sunday upward of 400 persons were skating and sliding on the Loscoe Dam during the afternoon, the ice, which previously showed signs of rapidly giving way, broke and seven or eight persons were immersed. One young man was skating about 20 yards from the side when the ice broke for several yards around him, amid shrieks and great excitement, the spectators, numbering about 700, standing on the banks, rushed to the scene of the catastrophe. No rope being available, planks and oars were thrown in to the unfortunate young man, and ultimately, by the tying of pocket-handkerchiefs together, he was rescued in a very exhausted state. RIPLEY ADVERTISER MARCH 20TH 1886 LOSCOE Sequel to an ice accident during the skating season of 1885 about 15 months ago a youth about 14 years of age named William Blathwick, narrowly escaped drowning at Loscoe Dam, being in the water for nearly half an hour. Ever since that time he has been more or less seriously ill and recently unable to follow his employment. Six weeks ago he was sent to the Nottingham Infirmary but gradually grew worse, and on Monday night succumbed to the illness brought on by exposure to water and cold on the above occasion. RIPLEY ADVERTISER OCTOBER 30TH 1886 SHOCKING TRAP ACCIDENT AT LOSCOE FIVE PERSONS INJURED On Saturday night a serious accident occurred at Loscoe, near Heanor. Mr Herbert Clarke of Loscoe was just starting to convey a load of passengers from Loscoe to Ripley Fair, and when descending Eyre’s Hill, Loscoe, both shafts broke. The horse bolted, and the occupants were thrown into the roadway in all directions. At this moment another bus and a pair of horses were coming from the opposite direction, and both colliding, the accident was rendered still more alarming. Five of the occupants of the former vehicle were shockingly injured. Mr Herbert Clarke, owner of the horse and trap, who was driving, was picked up in an unconscious state, much crushed about the head and body, and suffering apparently from internal injury. Both the cases of Mr Joseph Thorpe and his wife appeared to be the worst. The former had both legs broken, one at the thigh and the other below the knee, and the latter had her bottom jaw smashed, and face cut and mangled terribly. Mr Joseph Hordish was badly cut and bruised, and a youth named Powell of Heanor, received some superficial injuries and a terrible shaking. The injured persons were carried into the Coach and Horses public, close to, where they were examined by Doctors Woolley and Peters, of Heanor. Three of the cases were considered very serious, and Mr and Mrs Thorpe were ordered to be sent immediately to the Derby Infirmary. The remainder were conveyed to their homes, not many yards distant, but few minutes having elapsed from the start to the time of the accident. Mr Clarke was on Monday a shade better, but still in a critical condition. Thorpe and his wife are said to be progressing as favourably as can be expected. The cause of the accident is supposed to have been overloading. Thirteen persons, it is said, being in the trap at the time.
Azzabuv This message was updated on 3/29/2005 5:18:44 PM by Azzabuv	Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports replied on: 3/29/2005 5:02:59 PM Perhaps he was leaning with his back to the wall - if it was there then? But by the sounds of it, he was further out into the Dam for the water to be that deep? If not.....we've got another weirdy here. The only other logical explanation being that he was upto mid-chest height in mud/silt and this was holding him up? Fascinating info. Jenny. But how he was found and if there was no mud Etc. some people, especially in times past, would have said he was simply and purely a victim of 'The Calling'. This phenomena supposedly happened predominately in the Countryside. Someone would hear a 'voice' calling them and wherever it was originating from, they would, seemingly under its 'spell', walk DIRECTLY towards the point of origin, regardless of where this may have been. The resulting lifeless bodies, were always found in strange circumstances. I think i'll stay in tonight. Azzabuv. Addendum - All the time i've roamed all round the Dam over the years, i never saw anything out of the ordinary....so perhaps their Spirits/Ghosts are at rest. Unless, in the wee, quiet hours of the morning....................

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