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Originally Posted by susie123
John, Elephant street has been mentioned in several threads in the past, if you do a search. When I first joined I had to ask where it was and turned out I had walked past it every day on my way to and from primary school!
As for the dead elephant "legend", I copied this from a post by katex on an old thread:
Found an interesting one in a book 'An Accrington Miscellany' Frank Davy tells of:-
'It was a death that gave Elephant Street its name. In 1845 and elephant called "Chimney", purchased by Wombwell for his circus and standing 11ft 4ins. high and weighing more than 5 tons, died in Accrington. This tragedy, caused so much local interest that a street under construction was named Elephant Street to commemorate the event'
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Do a search, I'm a bloke susie, we just ask
