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Post by Ken Porter on Apr 25, 2004 0:14:28 GMT 1
I recently had a query about a concrete wall remnant near Gravel Pit Lane and Stoney Lane. Someone wondered if it was part of the Spondon anti-aircraft gun emplacements. My recollection is that the Home Guard had a concrete pillbox there. Does anyone else remember this? I also seem to remember one placed at the Five Lamps at West Road/Locko Road? Perhaps there were others erected in those desperate days of 1940 when invasion seemed imminent. Thinking caps please!
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Post by malchall on Apr 25, 2004 6:33:33 GMT 1
;Not too sure about Stoney lane but i have heard about the one on Locko Road althogh a long before my time. I do recall the Air raid shelters at Spondon House from the year I went (The old one not the new one ). ;D ;D ;D Also that it was once an hospital during the war the school that is as it's a bit bigger than the air raid shelter ;D ;D
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Post by Colin Earith on May 24, 2004 20:35:40 GMT 1
There were some "Gun Hills" as we called them when I was a Kid where the Bypass crosses over Stoney Lane.
I remember playing there quite clearly when I was about 10. I was born in 1937
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Post by malchall on May 25, 2004 5:33:44 GMT 1
True I watched it being laid out (A 52) from when i was at Asterdale school and Stoney Lane was called Borrowash Road from before being split in two and renamed to Stoney Lane.  |
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Post by Martin on Jun 29, 2004 21:17:13 GMT 1
Stoney Lane was always Borrowash Road for me. I can't get used to the new name.
But as for remnants of the Second World War I remember as a kid playing in the air raid shelter (a big one) at the side of Langley Road in south Spondon and, of course, on the Army Camp off Dale Road where there were gun emplacements, all sorts of linked, low-lying buildings and buildings that looked like small aircraft hangars. I believe there is not much of the Dale Road Army Camp left now; that's a real shame. It was a big part of the history of the area.
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Post by kenpor2 on Jul 5, 2004 1:43:03 GMT 1
The Dale Road site was manned by the 498 H.A.A.(Mixed) Battery of the Royal Artillery. Another site was on Longley Lane, with similar 4.7 inch guns. A glazier was on site to repair windows in nearby houses on Locko Road that often were cracked when the guns were fired. The batteries were moved to the South Coast in 1943/44 in preparation for the Second Front.
Light A.A. Bofors guns were located near the Allotments behind Moult Avenue. Shrapnel from the shell was a hazard rattling on the slate roofs during air raids but collected afterwards by schoolboys and others as a trophy.
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Post by Michael Perry on Apr 13, 2006 12:36:37 GMT 1
The flak battery in spondon was in what is now the area between Rannoch close and the main Ilkeston to Spondon road the houses now on it were originally built by a co-operative and were commonly called the "prison houses" as they were all the same. I can remember there were at least four gun emplacements and an underground stable and waiting/recreation area for the gunners, it was a great place to play as a kid and as it was directly between my grans house and home I always had an eccuse to play there. Mick Perry formerly spondon now Western Oz
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Post by billberry on Mar 1, 2009 17:13:44 GMT 1
It is 60 years ago this weekend 1st March 1949 when my family moved into the Camp as it was known. Shardlow Rural District Council had taken over the Camp in 1947 for families waiting for the new estate of Arnhem terrace area to be built. I remember we moved into hut 19 on what was then called Five Counties avenue, a rather grand name but the view was very good, still is.There were lots of families there and I can remember most of them, It would be very good to here from former Campers, maybe start another forum.
We eventually moved to Edmund Road on 9th April 1951, to live next door to our former neighbours!
The Guns as we called them were a marvellous place to play for all the kids but we had to keep a look out for the farmer, Mr Coxon, who used to chase us out of the workings.
Hope someone picks up this story and helps with their memories...........Bill
hoping some one picks this
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Post by cmsykes on Mar 18, 2011 3:30:55 GMT 1
Hi Bill, I owe you a letter anyway...I'll write by the weekend -- I'll be there for Reita's big birthday. See you there.
I can't remember a pill-box on the Pingle (the field bounded by Stoney Lane( aka Borrowash Road) and Gravel Pit Lane. There was a path, going diagonally across it, that Reita and I used to cross to go and visit your Gran and Grand-dad -- and also go and rudely gawp at the gypies in the field beyond Uncle Bill's. Chris
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