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Jennypeg
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Heanor Memorial Park
replied on: 9/19/2006 5:44:38 PM

but did you know about the pillars?
3rd March 1949
Heanor Observer
Gates for the park
Interest in our Memorial Park enterprise just now circles about the siting of the entrance gates, those relics of the old Shipley Hall which are to form the outstanding feature. The actual position is still debateable, but one would think the obviously correct position was at the starting point of the drive now being constructed between the avenue of trees on the Ilkeston Road. It was not so much that aspect of the matter we had in mind, but the turning down by the national Coal Board of the Committee’s request for the removal of the old stone pillars still standing at the entrance from which the gates were removed. This has been definitely refused, the reply from the Area General Manager stating that “the stone pillars have been re-used and are not available for the purpose you suggest” as to whether the removal of the heavy pillars and their re-errection would be a practical proposition we express no opinion, but we think the powers that be might have taken a more sympathetic view as some compensation for the unsightly mess of opencast mining.
Jenny

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