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Does anyine know what has happened to James St Club, I was only in on Saturday, I went past today and it is all boarded up.

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That doesn't sound good!

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Not King St, I think he owned Oaklea - which I think, but am not sure, has also closed.

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I have found out that the company that owns the two clubs as gone bust (the same bloke who owns Springhill nursing home), the Oak lea has remained open but is for sale and the james st club has closed, apparant reason being that Ossy is a dying town. The only people making money in Oswaldtwistle are the plywood manufacturers because of all the boarded up buildings, its a crying shame.

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No the nursing home is ok, the club thing was like a hobby to him and two other partners, I think he is better at running nursing homes than clubs. lol.

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You can't say Ossy is a dying town. It has seen some of the biggest price increases for housing in the country, and unlike a lot of places is still bouyant.

The reason why the James Street club became unsuccessful was that it tried to become something it wasn't, ie: a pub.

It was busy for nearly a hunderd years because it was a working men's club, and it could afford to let it's members enjoy cheaper drink prices, as well as provide entertainment.

When it was sold, and was in direct with the pubs on the main road, it lost it's raison d'etre. Especially when most of the pubs in the town are also providing entertainment.

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Yes they have a growing, captive market there.

Bringing in drag acts in to Ossy wasn't a stroke of genius.

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They had three big rooms to fill every night (or at least at weekends to make a profit) and they just couldn't attract that many people in.

They spent a lot of money on the refit and they went through a quick succession of about three Managers in the space of a year. I just hope someone buys it and gets it going again. It would be a shame for another big building in Ossy to be empty and open to vandals and squatters.

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The Straits Club realised their customer base, and it remains a working men's club.

It serves drinks cheeper than the pubs, and is always busy.

I'm a member, even though I don't qualify on nearly every count.;)

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You see if they applied Friends of Rhyddings Park style rules to the Straits club you'd have been thrown out long ago.

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Sorry I have to disagree, Ossie is on its A*$. Anyone who wants to pay over the odds to live here want there heads reading. Although Ossie does have its exciting attractions like the Straits Club (vacancy for steward) so anyone who would like to pay over the Odds to live here, here are the directions to 'Buy The House' On Union Road.

First Pass the boarded up Commercial pub in Church and travel up Market Street passed the vandalised train station and onto Union Road. You will know when Union Road starts when you see the Burnt out boarded up shell called the Palladium, once passed that you will see numerous car parks where buildings like a petrol station and a row of colliers cottages once stood, now once you pass the School with the incorrect time on the clock open your car window and you may get a smell of the latest Arson attack on Foxhill nature reserve. Carry straight on and you will pass a overgrown boarded up Old Folks home on your left, once passed the grubby Town Hall look for a big green sign on the shop telling you that you can buy a gun there. Once passed there if you look to your left before you get to the rat infested tinker brook you will see the burnt out shell of Rhyddings Mill. After the rats you will pass the boarded up wrecked Fire Station on your right and if your lucky you might get to see a gypsy emptying his toilet over the wall onto the playing field, although the gypsies aren't always there and are often replaced with several hundred disposable nappies. Carry on up the road and if you slow down passed the Co-op you will see the boarded up James Street Club on the right, speed up pass Thomas St where the boarded up New Inn Pub is and 'Buy The House' is on the left at the junction with Roe Greave Road just after the tenth takeaway, if you get to the boarded up pickle factory you've gone to far, then you can buy my terraced house for £70k.

The only sure thing about Ossie besides the all the daffodils in Rhyddings park being destroyed by the usual mindless vandals come the spring, is that James St won't be the last pub to close its doors in this dying town.

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Someones bitter and twisted, where you moving to that booming town of Manchester or the affluent midlands?

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dissolusioned or what?

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No I was thinking of somewhere like Florida. Give me the hurricanes and aligators anyday.

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Try living here mez, at least Accrington is being tidied up and money is being spent.

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I think its the booze shops thats closing the pubs lol, I agree though Ossie has got a vandalism problem cctv and a police presence would do for starters. And I think the friends of Rhyddings park will prevent any furthur vandalism being carried out in the park.

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had all that 2yrs ago round here..........one answer ........keep ringing the police , ours is good now.

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I am sorry but we live in a town full of eyesores and its about time some money was spent, can't wait to see the christmas lights.

[QUOTEthen who is keeping all these booze shops going, and take aways][/QUOTE]

Teenage drinkers and free delivery to Accrington.

Try getting a nice piece of cod on a Monday night.

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yeh but that apart its alright,:D :D :D :D

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Jusy having checked Straycat's profile, I've realised his problem.

He's forty next month, bless.

He's not bitter, it's just the start of his mid-life crisis.

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I was a member of James St W.M.C. for over 30 years, played with their snooker team and the bowling team. It was busy most nights and packed every weekend. The problem started when they tried to change things in the late eighties early nineties plus steward problems. A great pity but a sign of the times.

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I know, now I'm nearly old enough to start enjoying working mens clubs.


No seriously it breaks my heart everytime I see our old fire station etc.

Come on Britcliffe sort it out.

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I will agree that Peel Court looks awful. It's interesting to note that all the private nursing homes are flurishing, it's only the one that was run by the council that lies empty. It was also in the Observer that someone has put in plans to turn it into flats.
As for the fire station which is also for sale, I can't imagine what else it could be besides a garage.

On just one stretch of Union road, there has recently opened a barbers, an opticians, an aromatherapists, and a made to measure dress shop, hardly the sign of a town in decline.
Plus in the pubs on the main road you can be three deep at the bar trying to buy a drink.

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Maybe on a Bank holiday weekend or New years eve, it certainly wasn't the case last Saturday night, twelve in the Royal Oak at ten oclock 15 to 20 in the rose and crown later on, its just to expensive and if the no smoking dogooders get their way and ban smoking then bye bye pubs.

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Well the Saturday before we were in the same pubs at the same time and it was heaving.

Perhaps it's just me that draws in the punters.;)

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Ahem, cough, cough!!! I think you will find it was our double act or should I say triple act???? :D :D :D

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Latest rumour on the grapvine is that a major brewery is opening James St up in the new year.

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maybe ossy started its decline when RINDY moved back??? pmsl