Construction of Accrington

[WillowTheWhisp]

The books are probably still there in the reference library.

[cmonstanley]

Originally Posted by ChrisMG

Believe it or not Accrington Street names are named because of the following:
Stanley Street - Stan Laurel was born there.
Bold Street - The man who built the street also invented a biological washing powder.

Honest!

yuoll be resting on your laurels

[cmonstanley]

what about radnor street orange street pilot street cromwell avenue..

[WillowTheWhisp]

Cromwell Avenue used to be Cromwell Street.

Don't tell us Oliver was born there!

[accymel]

Now wheres the budding historians to shed more light on the subject

[katex]

Originally Posted by Bazf

Wellington St, which had nothing to do with the battle but was named after a pub on the street.

Seems like some of our streets were named after National heroes such as Wellington, Nelson Square and Cromwell Street. As are some after politicians Davy Street (now demolished) Lister and Pitt Street.

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'

For the life of me can't find this street on any of the recent maps, so much have been demolished by now.

Seems Rhyddings is an Old English derivation and means "A clearing in the Forest" ! Well, still have the park.

[WillowTheWhisp]

It doesn't exist now Katex. This was a source of amusement for some friends of mine at one time as I used to insist that as a child I remembered there being an Elephant Street but nobody else could remember it and they kept insisting I must have dreamt it. It was round the back of New Jerusalem church. In fact it was AccyWeb which vindicated me because somebody produced not only documentary evidence but also a photograph of it and yes it was the street I remembered. I think I'd gone to a youth club somewhere round there once or twice, maybe the youth club belonged to New Jerusalem. I know I wasn't very old (12 or 13 maybe) and there was a lad I fancied!

[katex]

Ah yes, Willow thanks for that .. did a search and found the thread under Pitt Street in June 2004 .. surprising how many posts contain the word 'elephant' ...

[Wynonie Harris]

While idly googling around, I've just discovered something I never knew. New Jerusalem was the largest Swedenborgian church in the country and was known as the "cathedral" of that faith. So, why was it built in a small Lancashire town and not in some large city? Anyone know?

[katex]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

While idly googling around, I've just discovered something I never knew. New Jerusalem was the largest Swedenborgian church in the country and was known as the "cathedral" of that faith. So, why was it built in a small Lancashire town and not in some large city? Anyone know?

What is Swedenborgian ?? Suppose same reason the big Morman Church is in Bolton; thought we were all ignorant easily persuaded converts.

[Wynonie Harris]

It's a religion based on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Think it's similar to Christianity. Thought the big Mormon chuch was somewhere south of Preston? You can see it from the M61, can't you? No doubt Willow will enlighten us!

[katex]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

It's a religion based on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Think it's similar to Christianity. Thought the big Mormon chuch was somewhere south of Preston? You can see it from the M61, can't you? No doubt Willow will enlighten us!

Just off Junction 6 M61 .. sorry meant meant Chorley.

[WillowTheWhisp]

That's not a big Mormon church. It's a temple. Would you like the explanation of why it's there?

There are only 2 of them in this country, the other one is at Newchapel near Lingfield in Surrey and is called the London Temple. The one at Chorley is called the Preston Temple! We just do that to baffle you all.

There are loads of ordinary chapels/churches throughout the country - some purpose built and some in rented rooms or converted from other things. At one time the chapel at Chorley was in a sort of old converted factory/warehouse type building with a funny little spike stuck on the side for a spire.

[entwisi]

I was in a hotel the other week whilst on a training course and I was surprised to find not only a standard bible but the Mormon equivilant(Sorry, can't for the life of me remember its proper name). Just struck me as odd as I had never really thought about it.

I've always been intruiged about different religions, Paganism, Wicca, Mormon etc. The family of one girl I knew were heavily into some weird sect thing and it always made me wonder how people got into different religions, e.g. we tend to have christianity thrown at us in this country, Islam would be pushed as teh dominant religion in Muslim communities so you can understand people following them, I'm interested as to how most people get involved in the 'lesser known' ones.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by entwisi

I was in a hotel the other week whilst on a training course and I was surprised to find not only a standard bible but the Mormon equivilant(Sorry, can't for the life of me remember its proper name).

It's called The Book of Mormon Ian That's why they call us 'Mormons' which is actually a nickname but we're so used to it that we call ourselves that too. The correct name of the church is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" and the members are the latter-day saints. That doesn't mean we are all holy saintly and wonderful. (But anyone who knows me shouldn't need to be told that! )It relates to the name St Paul gave the early Christians in the Bible. They didn't use the name "Christian" back then. ( Example Ephesians 2:19 - "Now therefore ye are no more strangers but fellow citizens with the saints and of the houehold of God." ) The latter-day bit means us living in this day and age as opposed to them living way back then.

Oh yeah, and it's not actually a Mormon equivalent of the Bible. People are often surprised to learn that we do use the Bible, the King James version, and this year in our adult Sunday school class we are studying the Old Testament. We've just been doing Daniel. It's gripping stuff. The BOM is an entirely different thing written by and about people living on the other side of the world before and after the life of Christ who had prophesies about his coming and then believers in him after he'd been.

Originally Posted by entwisi

I've always been intruiged about different religions, Paganism, Wicca, Mormon etc.

Me too, I'm fascinated by different beliefs and have a great regard for many of them, in particular those which respect the earth and other people. Some pagan religions have a great affinity for animal life and the environment.

Originally Posted by entwisi

I'm interested as to how most people get involved in the 'lesser known' ones.

I became what I am basically due to my insatiable curiosity in the first place. Before I was LDS I had vaguely heard of them but knew very little. As I was always looking into things and beliefs I knew nothing about, when I encountered a real live Mormon colleague I bombarded him with questions and probably drove him up the wall! I adamantly refused to 'meet the missionaries' to be taught or 'indoctrinated' as I described it at the time and just wanted to read all I could get my hands on (pro and con) and ask questions. That progressed to going along to choir rehearsals to have a look at some more of these weirdos and then to the Sunday meetings to see what they got up to. The more I found out the more I liked.......................

That's enough waffling for now before anyone accuses me of preaching.