Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 992813)

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'

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 992872)

Do a search, I'm a bloke susie, we just ask:D

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 992877)

And someone's just started a thread about lazy women... :p

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 992794)

Old Peculiar :D

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 993042)

Didn't want to know about your age & state Jay, just making sure you're allowed fizzy drinks. :D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 993044)

Oh come on Dave everybody knows that's Retlaw Old Peculiar:D:D

Originally Posted by Atarah (Post 993056)

This could possibly be the poor elephant who over indulged himself, and then died in Accrington, and whom Elephant Street was named after :-)

Interesting little article though.

Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 993065)

Elephant st was opposite Lee st(where I grew up)there was a sweet shop half way up but for the life of me I cannot recall the name.Anyone help?

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 993057)