Palladium Bus stop to change its name - Page 3

BERNADETTE · 14-08-2009, 17:29

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

It was just the nostalgia thing Bernie. I doubt there will be many people who will remember the Load of Mischief, never mind bus drivers.

I remember it vaguely, it was across from the Hare and Hounds wasn't it? Was the bingo hall next door?

katex · 14-08-2009, 17:35

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

It was just the nostalgia thing Bernie. I doubt there will be many people who will remember the Load of Mischief, never mind bus drivers.

LOL .. I still refer to that junction as the Load of Mischief, Bernard .. old habits die hard. Have to reword any directions (or whatever), and usually use the funeral parlour as a marker...

Bernard Dawson · 14-08-2009, 17:42

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

I remember it vaguely, it was across from the Hare and Hounds wasn't it? Was the bingo hall next door?

If I remember right it was about where the bus stop is now, right at top of the road when you turn left at the lights to go down to Rishton.

I don't remember the bingo hall. There could well have been one.

BERNADETTE · 14-08-2009, 17:51

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

If I remember right it was about where the bus stop is now, right at top of the road when you turn left at the lights to go down to Rishton.

I don't remember the bingo hall. There could well have been one.

There was definetly a bingo hall in that area but not sure exactly where.

garinda · 14-08-2009, 17:57

Was the fancy frontage, as shown in the illustration, still like that in the forties/fifties?

Architecturally it makes more sense with that facade, than it does now.

It's always looked unbalanced to me.

garinda · 14-08-2009, 18:02

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

Just a slight deviation. Does anybody still ask for the Load of Mischief stop in Clayton , when they are getting of the bus at the Hare and Hounds?

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I only remember it from seeing it on the front of the old Accy buses.

I also remember the conductors shouting that out as a destination whilst they were at the terminal.

To me it sounded like they were shouting Lord of Mischief.

Which I always felt would be a good job to have.

Sadly I never even made it to Master of Mischief.

Gayle · 14-08-2009, 18:06

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Originally Posted by garinda

Sadly I never even made it to Master of Mischief.

Oh, I think you did!

garinda · 14-08-2009, 18:15

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Oh, I think you did!

Flatterer!

cashman · 14-08-2009, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

Just a slight deviation. Does anybody still ask for the Load of Mischief stop in Clayton , when they are getting of the bus at the Hare and Hounds?

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when i left school n started work (Easter63) always asked fer load of mischief going yon, rare i catch bus that far on now, but still n probably always will call it so, as kate says think its n age thing. near sure there used to be a bus from accy just went yon?

most went to clayton though. was a good little boozer in its day also.

Bernard Dawson · 14-08-2009, 20:07

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Originally Posted by cashman

when i left school n started work (Easter63) always asked fer load of mischief going yon, rare i catch bus that far on now, but still n probably always will call it so, as kate says think its n age thing. near sure there used to be a bus from accy just went yon?

most went to clayton though. was a good little boozer in its day also.

People still said the Load of Mischief on the bus, when asked where they bound for.This was long after the pub had vanished. The name has always fascinated me as well.

West Ender · 14-08-2009, 20:50

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

It was just the nostalgia thing Bernie. I doubt there will be many people who will remember the Load of Mischief, never mind bus drivers.

I remember it well, though I was hardly ever in Clayton. When I was at Paddock House there were girls at the school from quite a distance away, as far as Colne and surrounding areas, and there were special buses that came into the school grounds to collect at 4 p.m. It always amused me that one of the buses went to Clayton and would be full of schoolgirls, with "Load of Mischief" on the destination sign.

jaysay · 15-08-2009, 09:24

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

It was just the nostalgia thing Bernie. I doubt there will be many people who will remember the Load of Mischief, never mind bus drivers.

Think your right there Bernard I can just about remember it, when was it knocked down anybody remember

katex · 15-08-2009, 10:16

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Think your right there Bernard I can just about remember it, when was it knocked down anybody remember

It actually closed in 1980 Jaysay ... after 160 years of trading, and was demolished to make way for the M65, which was completed in 1996 ... so somewhere around then I guess.

jaysay · 15-08-2009, 10:42

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Originally Posted by katex

It actually closed in 1980 Jaysay ... after 160 years of trading, and was demolished to make way for the M65, which was completed in 1996 ... so somewhere around then I guess.

That surprises me kate, I thought it was long before that, I used to go in the Hare and Hounds most Saturday lunchtimes in the late seventies when Big Alan had it, we used to meet the before going to the Rovers and Al used to come with us, I can't for the life in me picture the pub still being there, can remember the Bank on the opposite corner, but not the pub

katex · 15-08-2009, 11:01

Remember it being demolished due to the M65, but can't be sure what year ... when did they start building the motorway ? ...

All references seem to confirm this, including Wikipedia :

Clayton-le-Moors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ah-ha, just found another link in Wikipedia ... Junction 6-7 was opened in 1984 !! Gosh, how time flies..

M65 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia