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Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/24/2006 2:15:30 PM R/H 18th March 1903 “GODKIN HOUSE” FARM, LANGLEY MILL Mr. Sydney Watson is favoured with instructions from the Misses Gregory, who have let the farm, to Sell By Auction, as above, on Monday March 23rd 1903, the whole of the LIVE & DEAD Farming Stock comprising: 12 BEASTS, including roan in-calf cow, red and white in-calf cow, red in-calf cow, red barren heifer, red newly calved heifer, red and white cow, red in-calf cow, black barren cow, red and white in-calf cow, two red in-calf heifers, red and white yearling. 2 HORSES, viz, brown half-legged horse, 17 hands; black pony, 14 hands 1. 8 COUPLES POULTRY; 2 FERRETS; also IMPLEMENTS comprising 3 ½ in heavy cart, with sideboards, 3in 4 wheeled dray, with wraithes and gormers, 6in wagon, with wraithes and gormes, 4in wagon with wraithes and gormers, 3in pony heavy cart, hay tedding machine, sectional iron field roller, 79in gauge, horse rake, drag, set of 3 arrows, 6 swingle trees, plough, 3 stack poles, ladder, feeding trough, wheelbarrow, mowing machine (by Hornsby Grantham), in good working order, corn splitter, chopper for hand or steam power, joiner’s bench, bench with drawers, 4 waggon ropes, winnowing machine , 2 wood hay rakes, 4 hay forks, plough pads, and chains, sieve, part set of heavy gears, large stack cloth, side-saddle, bits, spurs, stirrups, home washer, and wringer, double-barrelled muzzle loading gun, grindstone, sack truck, cake mill (by Danks, Nottingham), beam weighing machine, large hen coop, lathe. TWO STACKS OF HAY (well got). Note: The auctioneer calls the attention of intending purchasers to this sale. The beasts are young, well bred, and full of hair, and the hay has been got in good condition and is of good quality.
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/19/2006 2:52:28 PM memorial inscriptions Heanor St Lawrence Gregory Henry of Godkin House Veterinary Surgeon died 13th April 1834 aged 35yrs
suegill Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/18/2006 4:58:52 PM From Page 19 - Life in Old Heanor Under the picture A very early photograph of the Gregory family, a well-to-do Victorian farming family at Godkin House, C 1870. The original estates were extensive in the locality extending from Aldercar to Heanor, and were acquired by the Gregory family when William Gregory married Elizabeth Brough in 1822. Godkin House was demolished in 1957 and was close to the site of the present Langley Mill Junior School. Sue
frontcentre	Godkin House replied on: 3/18/2006 12:28:48 AM Interested in the connection to William Brough here. William is related to me. Any other info?
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/16/2006 10:06:30 AM This fits in with the Heanor Church names? Colclough family, Ann, John, Mary, Samuel senior, and Samuel junior, died between 1804-1813; George Brough Gregory, Heanor House, died 1900; Sarah Elizabeth Gregory, Heanor House, Jenny
paulr	Godkin House replied on: 3/14/2006 11:03:38 PM quote: When Godkin House was demolished 1955ish, and Mr J Dykes rented the land could his farm be Godkin Farm? Was Godkin House just the name of the House/ farm or was there a family called Godkin? On the map I have it just say’s Godkin Jenny Jenny. From White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire page 274. Samuel Colclough,in 1813,devised a messuage and the closes called Godkin House Farm,19 and an half acres,to his grandfather,William Brough,and his heirs,subject to the annual payment of £2.This sum is laid out in bread,and distributed at the vestry-room on the 5th June,the anniversary of the donor's death.Peter has jogged my memory with names. When Grandad Towle worked at Godkin I do now remember a Miss Gregory who must have owned the estate in the 1940's/50's we were not allowed to go into the grounds of the house, by her orders,so we used to go down into the fields to the low stone boundary wall, which had barbed wire across the top, and wave to attract grandads attention to come and fetch his sandwiches. Regards P&B Copy of White's 1857 Directory pages 272-287 www.n.f.wilson.btinternet.co.uk
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/10/2006 12:13:06 PM It looks like the council rented the land to Mr Dykes and knocked the house down, and then it became part of the Godkin opencasting site 1980, so sometime between 1901-1955 the council bought the house and land?and sold it before 1980? Jenny
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/10/2006 11:58:55 AM In all census entries from 1851 to 1901 Godkin House was the only address given.It was occupied in all these census entries by the Gregory Family as Follows 1851 Ann Gregory Widow Farmer Head 1861 Ann Gregory Widow Farmer Head 1871 Henry G Gregory Single Farmer Head Henry was the son of Ann 1881 Henry G Gregory Single Farmer Head 1891 Henry G Gregory Widow Farmer Head 1901 Ann Gregory Single Farmer Head This Ann is Henry's Sister Looking at the census entries i think Godkin House and Godkin Farm where one and the same
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/10/2006 11:47:21 AM The Dykes farm in 1950 was called Aldercar Hall Farm it was next door to the Hall i delivered Coop Groceries there on a Saturday Morning
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/10/2006 7:05:30 AM When Godkin House was demolished 1955ish, and Mr J Dykes rented the land could his farm be Godkin Farm? Was Godkin House just the name of the House/ farm or was there a family called Godkin? On the map I have it just say’s Godkin Jenny
paulr This message was updated on 3/9/2006 4:35:27 PM by paulr	Godkin House replied on: 3/9/2006 4:12:17 PM Jenny. Just referred to 1900 O.S.Map Godkin Farm is shown almost in line with the opening of St.Andrews Drive at the top of Dunstead and parallel to Woodlinkin.Also shown in the direction of Woodlinkin is a disused windmill and an old coal shaft. PaulR
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/9/2006 1:28:56 PM in the Ripley & Heanor News (02/03/06)in the letters, the Langley Mill Parish council was looking for info on Godkin Farm of Godkin House at Aldercar/Langley Mill. Jenny
paulr This message was updated on 3/9/2006 10:43:41 AM by paulr	Godkin House replied on: 3/9/2006 10:19:26 AM Was Godkin House anything to do with Godkin Farm? I remember my Grandad used to go there and do the garden in the 1940's,there was a road behind Doctor Holmes which led down to Godkin fields and I can remember him having one of Vic.Hallams chicken pens on wheels which he would take into one of the farms fields on the right of the jitty after the wheat had been cut.I think there must have been some friendly foxes then. Grandad eventually married a lady from Godkin. PaulR
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/9/2006 10:06:48 AM Used to go potato picking at John Dykes farm it was next door to Aldercar Hall used to get 2/6d a day circa 1948
Jennypeg Researcher	Godkin House replied on: 3/9/2006 9:07:16 AM 7th Jan 1955 Ripley & Heanor news Godkin House After hearing the surveyor’s report of further damage to the old Godkin House, the Council decided that the house be demolished, that the materials fit for re-use be recovered. An offer of £5 for the bath and £2 for the fireplace was accepted. Mr. J. Dykes was allowed to rent about 25 acres of the estate for a further 12 months

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