The War Memorials page gives details of those memorials situated outside, visible to all. But many organisations had their own interior war memorials. Some of these are, now, sadly lost. The Heanor Secondary School (subsequently the Grammar School) commemorated the...
Roll of Honour So many of our local people have fought and died in major conflicts, and the area has a number of memorials to the fallen. We will remember them……. The oldest outdoor war memorial in the area is at Langley Mill, and commemorates four men...
The oldest surviving place of worship in Langley Mill, the Baptist Church as we know it now, was established in 1839. The General Baptist cause in the Heanor area first took root over 200 years ago at Smalley. In 1807 the Rev. William Pickering came from Ilkeston to...
One of the smaller faiths represented in the area is that of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who have a Kingdom Hall at Langley Mill, opposite the Trent Bus Garage. The present building dates from 1985, when the previous Kingdom Hall was taken down and a new one...
The Domesday book of 1086 records a church at Heanor. Nothing is known of the earliest church in the town, but the large church situated at one corner of the Market Place dates from the fifteenth century. The mediaeval chancel and nave of this building was demolished...
