Hyndburn to be axed.

[harwood red]

And living in Great Harwood my postal address is Blackburn too!!!! Whenever someone puts in my postcode in a computer it comes up Great Harwood, Blackburn


As for the name change...it's all pants...i say - i say it's all pants

Also I remember being on holiday few years back and mentioned that I lived in great harwood...response was "great Beanie shop there" and the person lived in South Wales

[Lilly]

[quote=garinda;433895]I think you've been misinformed, and if the borough's signs are changed as regularly as a tramp's underwear, as you suggest, that just shows how financially bankrupt our council is. But they aren't regularly changed for no reason. Fact.

I wasn't trying to suggest that the signs are replaced for no reason.If they weren't ever replaced then they would start to look a mess,scruffy,weather beaten etc so for this reason they are replaced at regular intervals and I am told that this is the reason they are changing the name now whilst the signs are due to be changed anyway so money isn't being spent twice.Makes sense to me.Perhaps you may have been misinformed.

[garinda]

[quote=Lilly;434046]

Originally Posted by garinda

I think you've been misinformed, and if the borough's signs are changed as regularly as a tramp's underwear, as you suggest, that just shows how financially bankrupt our council is. But they aren't regularly changed for no reason. Fact.

I wasn't trying to suggest that the signs are replaced for no reason.If they weren't ever replaced then they would start to look a mess,scruffy,weather beaten etc so for this reason they are replaced at regular intervals and I am told that this is the reason they are changing the name now whilst the signs are due to be changed anyway so money isn't being spent twice.Makes sense to me.Perhaps you may have been misinformed.

Well the four in Ossy look fine and dandy to me, and at five thousand pounds a piece to replace them, I can think of a hundred other ways the twenty thousand pounds to replace just those four, could be better spent in the town.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I haven't noticed any that need replacing either. I saw an article in a newspaper recently about the futility of change for the sake of change. Even Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen said it was little short of conning people to make them think that change necessarily equalled improvement.

[garinda]

All this so reminds me of British Airways. When a few years ago they spent many millions of pound rebranding their logo, from this,

to this.

Then after much public outrage, spent even more money changing it all back.

The planes didn't fly any faster. The trolley dollies were no more beautiful, or efficent. No more people were inspired to invest in shares in the company. In fact it was all just the same service, just more expensive.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Where's Maggie with her hankie?

[garinda]

The leader of the council and chairman of the area council, Coun Peter Britcliffe, said: "This is typical of the positive responses we've had to the idea.

"Polls running on various websites, and a vox pop carried out by the Lancashire Telegraph, have also been very much in favour of the change.''

Town Rides Crest Of Support (from Lancashire Telegraph)

Not much support so far on here, my old china.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Polls running on what websites?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Polls running on what websites?

The Observer, I suspect.

'Do you want your town to have it's own shiny new crest, and it's own identity within the borough?'

Err....massive show of hands.

'Should the council spend an unspecified amount of money changing the name of the borough from Hyndburn to Accrington and Districts, even though each town already has it's own identity already, and really the only problem is that the leader of the council is tired of explaining where Hyndburn is, even though the rest of you have no need to use the name, as you all live in the towns in the borough?'

Err....no thanks.

[WillowTheWhisp]

OK, here we go, let's have a poll.

Click here to go to poll.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I noticed another thing today that will be defunct if they change the name - that huge lump of carved stone at the bottom of Market Street Church.

[Gayle]

It's funny, as I drive around I see new things that will need to be changed - those little stick on signs on taxis. Not a huge expense admittedly but a cost nonetheless. What I'm really worried about is it just limping in - if you're doing it for the impact and publicity then it has to be a concerted effort.

[katex]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I noticed another thing today that will be defunct if they change the name - that huge lump of carved stone at the bottom of Market Street Church.

What's that Willow ? Will take a look tomorrow.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Gayle

It's funny, as I drive around I see new things that will need to be changed - those little stick on signs on taxis. Not a huge expense admittedly but a cost nonetheless. What I'm really worried about is it just limping in - if you're doing it for the impact and publicity then it has to be a concerted effort.

...as well as all the other things that will need to be changed.

Wheelie bins x 30,000

Recycling bags x 90,000

The fleet of borough vehicles, and God knows how many thousands of trees will have to be felled to cover the stationary.

Then there's the translators fee, to translate Accrington and Districts Borough Council, into four Asian languages.

The list, and the costs, will be endless.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by garinda

Then there's the translators fee, to translate Accrington and Districts Borough Council, into four Asian languages.

and Polish - you forgot Polish.