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Taken from a window in the
Midland Hotel, looking up Cromford Road, this view shows a small lorry
heading towards Aldercar, passing Bridge Street and the shops on the left.
The Co-op is the largest building, towards the right of the picture. |
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Taken from a window above
Whitworth's (at the corner of Bridge Street and Cromford Road), this is
looking up towards Aldercar, and shows both of the main Co-op stores,
either side of Dean Street, along with part of the flour-mill on the
opposite side of the road.
Both horse-drawn and mechanical vehicles struggled through the water! |
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From the same vantage point,
but looking the opposite direction, towards the junction with Station
Road.
The building in the centre of the picture was owned by the Co-op, but was
it already their paint and wallpaper shop?
The final building to the right is the Midland Hotel (now "The Mill")
The advertising hoarding includes a poster for Camp Coffee. |
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Taken on Bridge Street,
looking down to and across the junction with Cromford Road, and onto
Parliament Square. The buildings in the background must have been
demolished no later than the second world war - can anyone give any
further information about them? The building on the right is Whitworth's
Grocery. |
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A similar shot to that above,
but with a different group of children (including Beatrice Maud and
Herbert Stirland - 2nd and 3rd from the right). There is a better view of
the cottages opposite the bottom of Bridge Street. It appears that we are
looking at the back of the terrace, so presumably they fronted onto the
River Erewash. |
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Station Road, the shot being
taken from opposite the Railway Tavern, looking towards the junction with
Cromford Road, and with the Midland Hotel in the centre of the picture.
The photograph is dated 22 May 1932, which is the same date recorded for
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Taken from a similar
position, two single-decker buses pass each other near to the Midland
Hotel.
On the left of the picture is the wall and railings of the Wesleyan
Church. |
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Looking the opposite way,
from opposite the junction with Cromford Road, along Station Road, with
the Wesleyan Chapel on the right, and the Railway Tavern on the left.
Heading towards Heanor are a tram (or trolley bus?) and a lorry. |
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And taken from the same
location (but possibly at a later time as there is no sign of overhead
wires), an intrepid motorcyclist makes his way along Station Road away
from the junction with Cromford Road. Notice the people standing on top of
the shop front of Caves, next to the post office. |
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Heath's Garage, on Derby
Road, Langley Mill (the Eastwood side of the Station Road/Cromford Road
junction), opposite the terminus of the Erewash Canal (and the site of Vic
Hallams). |
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Another picture of the garage
of J. Heath & Co, this one showing the water flowing off of the road and
onto the slightly lower land next to the end of the canal. |
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William Phillips' wooden
cycle shop on Parliament Square, opposite the end of Bridge Street, This
photo dates from the 1950's, as until the late 40's the building was
Teather's Chip Shop. |
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Although we
normally think of floods in Langley Mill being caused by the Erewash,
there is another watercourse that flows through the village, the Bailey
Brook. These next two pictures show the impact of the Bailey Brook
flooding, and they were both taken by the Midland General bus garage, on
Station Road, at the bottom of Mansfield Road.
The garage itself can be seen on the left of the upper picture.
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