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RMMee Moderator	Langley Clock replied on: 3/13/2007 11:57:13 PM I spoke to a life-long Langley resident tonight who CAN remember a clock on the outside wall of the school on Laceyfields Road. He states that it may have been there as late as the sixties, but that it certainly wasn't working by then. He will see if he can find out anything further.
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 3/13/2007 8:55:55 PM ARGH! That's what I get for writing posts when I'm not fully awake - apologies. The photo and school that had the new building added were LACEYFIELDS road not Claramount.. Apologies, for the oversight, gonna have to ensure that I have a coffee next time before posting!
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 3/12/2007 9:32:15 PM Who knows? We'll just have to wait until someone uncovers a pre 1900 photo some time.
Iceboy53	Langley Clock replied on: 3/11/2007 11:04:23 PM i went to that school tempus and never saw anything..although thinking...maybe they had one of those things built on top of the school roof with a clock on it...
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 3/11/2007 10:12:39 PM May have figured it out. The School it refers to is definatly Claramount, there is a photo in one of the later magazine for the "Langley School" (think about 1904) Couldn't see a clock, but the image was very low quality. However, I think by then the clock may not have even been there, there is referance in one of the 1902 magazines (sorry, not got the exact extract to hand) to them celebrating the building of some new school rooms. If the clock kept breaking down / was cheaply made, maybe they didn't think it worth keeping if it was in the way of the new build.
Iceboy53	Langley Clock replied on: 2/27/2007 10:23:32 PM not that i know of tempus..but you have to be looking at the claramount part of it also and not just the laceyfeilds school..co's remembering what peter said also..where langley ends..the claramount school was always classed has a langley school..but the post office on the corner of claramount was always classed as marlpool...and that leads me to believe that langley began after the post office and the begining of the school...i wondered if they had one of those stone things they used to put up in the middle of the roads like a memorial and there was a clock on it..it must have been somewhere prominent to be noticed don't you think.
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 2/27/2007 8:45:02 PM Thought about that, but the referance to it being a "town clock" and that it gives the "locality a homly aspect" suggest that it was exposed to the public. Do we know if the School on Laceyfield origionally may have had a turret?
Iceboy53	Langley Clock replied on: 2/27/2007 6:56:52 PM Robert,Tempus...do you think they may have meant that there was maybe a clock inside one of the schools at that time that needed servicing.just a thought but a logical one don't you think...
RMMee Moderator This message was updated on 2/27/2007 6:20:55 PM by RMMee	Langley Clock replied on: 2/27/2007 6:19:24 PM I drove past the school on Laceyfields Road today, and there was no sign of a clock or anywhere where a clock had been. Oh well, worth a try! PS - Agree totally with Peter's border between Langley Mill and Langley!
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Langley Clock replied on: 2/26/2007 3:32:49 PM One point always considered where Langley changed to Langley Mill was the Railway bridge between Lea Lane and Milnhay Road last call for the Postie was Keswicks farm. I suppose the other point can only be Aldreds Lane the Langley Mill postie only delivered up Aldreds lane as far as Bailey Brook.This was in the 1940s
Iceboy53	Langley Clock replied on: 2/26/2007 10:44:48 AM maybe it will tempus LOL..but for now..all i can find of interest down langley is the school,the water works,the colliery and the methodist chapel...maybe it is one of them.
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 2/25/2007 7:07:15 PM Sadly none, but hopfully someone somewhere has some record of which teachers were where and when? Maybe... who knows, maybe its going to be another one of these unsolved mysteries
Iceboy53	Langley Clock replied on: 2/25/2007 10:11:59 AM tempus...does it give any indication of where langley begins and ends ???
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 2/24/2007 9:30:49 PM Not relating to the clock but I have found a mention in the 1887 volume to the School in Langley bing the infants and having Miss Browne as the headmistress. Isn't the infants school opposite the new buildings on Laceyfield, as RMMee said origionaly opposite the colliery ? Incidentally the Schools inspector was very impressed "The Infants hare been very carefully taught, answered brightly, and said their repetition exceedingly well."
tempus275	Langley Clock replied on: 2/24/2007 6:23:10 PM Sadly that volume that refers to the clock begins 1890 and the nearest the have library prior is is 1888. There is no mention of the appeal in the library volume, so it must have been started in the interveening years.

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