by Robert Mee | Dec 2, 2024 | Latest News, Marlpool and Langley
The Langley Methodist Church held a regular gala or carnival during the 1950s, and this photograph, taken on Ella Bank Road, shows the procession heading towards the gala site at the bottom of Breach Road. The Carnival Queen in 1954 was Marian Burford, of Aldercar....
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 15, 2024 | Marlpool and Langley
The largest cemetery in the area by far is to be found on Ilkeston Road, Marlpool. Whilst Heanor Cemetery, as it is officially named, is administered by the local authority, prior to the mid-nineteenth century all burials took place at religious sites. But in 1856, a...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 15, 2024 | Marlpool and Langley
Did you know….? Langley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, 700 years before Langley Mill existed! Other local places in the Domesday Book were Heanor, Codnor, and “Smithycotes.” Did you know….? Langley used to have its own...
