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Peter Chamberlain
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This message was updated on 9/9/2005 5:00:40 AM by Peter Chamberlain

 Skittle Alley
replied on: 9/9/2005 4:57:42 AM
Long Alley Skittles has been played in the area for more than 50 years.It spread from Nottingham i reluctantly have to say through the Home Brewery Leagues One of the first Alley's in the area was at the Railway Tavern at Langley Mill actually there were two 1 outside and 1 in a large outdoor shed.Our away Games always needed a bus to
the Nottingham Bulwell Arnold Areas and after a night out the 5-olock call to Langley Pit was always a struggle.For many years it did not seem to get popular in Derbyshire and even today most teams are within a 5 mile of radius of the local leagues at Ripley.
Azz is it played in your neck of the woods
This is with the 9 pins and 3 balls made out of Fruit Wood not Cheeses.There was a passage next to the Nat West Bank were you went to the Heanor Observer Premises
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 Skittle Alley
replied on: 9/8/2005 9:19:51 PM
Robert, Most of the skittles in skittle alleys are of plain unpainted wood! I wonder if the alley your relative remembers would be the skittle alley at Heanor Social Club?
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 Skittle Alley
replied on: 9/8/2005 8:08:46 PM
never heard of anything like that and i've lived around here for 50 years.what is the alley between what was a grocers and the bank on the right hand side going down.do you think he meant a nick name for that ?.
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 Skittle Alley
replied on: 9/8/2005 7:25:56 PM
That doesn't fit in with the fairly precise location by my relative. But I suspect that he is mistaken!
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 Skittle Alley
replied on: 5/27/2005 8:54:37 PM
There was a skittle alley in the back yard of the Red Lion Pub, in the 1950s and early 60s. I don't know how long it had existed before that date though.
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 Skittle Alley
replied on: 5/27/2005 6:40:31 PM
At a family funeral today, I mentioned my interest in local history, and someone asked if I knew anything about the old skittle alley on Market Street, somewhere near Woolworth's.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Apparently, the skittles were of plain, unpainted wood, but that is about all I could glean.
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