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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 9/10/2005 5:33:59 PM by Azzabuv |
Sukey's Hollow
replied on: 9/10/2005 5:27:23 PM This is an eye-witness account of the Hollow of c.1910, 95 years ago, as given by Mr. Philip Eggleshaw in the very first edition of the Society's new Newsletter of January, 1970. It was always called Sukey's Hole and it started at Sye Lane by the side of the old stone-built Church Institute, now demolished. It was a gated road, leading to two fields and to a cottage with another wheeled access to these properties. The first gate was at the entrance from Sye Lane and the second at the end of a walled garden belonging to Ray Cottage, both gates had slip styles; the path then carried on past the Rectory wall which was built of furnace clinker. I think this showed the connection between the Church and the Butterley Company, for Canon Corfield's brother was Mining Agent to the company. There was a small gate in this wall leading to the Rectory and just beyond that was the cottage which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Parkin, who were the grandparents of the Bryan Family, some of whom still live in Heanor. There was a third gate against the cottage with a clapper gate at the side. In the hedge belonging to this cottage, was a stone post about eighteen inches high inscribed on the side 'EMM' and opposite 'B.Co'. The path then went steeply downhill and reached its lowest point at Sukey's Hole Pond, where there was a climb stile and a bridge. It then carried on up hill past the allotments on the right and passing the Old Mill House on the left, before terminating on Mill Road at Marlpool. Azzabuv. |
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