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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 9/12/2005 1:07:04 PM by Azzabuv |
Peacock Town
replied on: 9/11/2005 9:41:06 PM Society Newsletter number 17, September, 1974. Original contributor was Mr. Philip Eggleshaw. Peacock Town was a small pleasent little hamlet, three quarters of a mile to the North of Heanor Church. It consisted of the big house called 'The Falls', with an 'L' shaped block of ten cottages on the West side and a further block of four or five to the North. Some of the first named cottages have been demolished and those on the North side have gone almost without trace. Although today, this area is called 'The Falls', sixty years ago it was called Peacock Town and very few people would have known it by the other name. I think the origin of the name was that peacocks were kept in the garden of the big house, which was at one time the home of the Tantum Family. This Family had considerable estates in the district and i think the cottages were built to house the workers of these estates. In the 1880s, Dr. Joseph Fletcher lived there. He was a partner in the lace factory at Heanor. Later, it became the home of Mr. Alfred Haslam, who along with his brother, who lived at Ripley, was the owner of Pentrich Colliery, which was sunk on the Duke of Devonshire's estate and was first called Hartington Pit. Mrs. Haslam, before her marriage, was Miss Brentnall, from Cocker House, a lovely house situated between Aldercar and Brinsley, which is now buried under the Moorgreen Tip. Azzabuv. |
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