Accrington Town Hall!

kestrelx · 19-05-2012, 15:36

I was wondering about peoples experience of Accrington Town Hall. My main memory is when Motorhead played there, I think it was one of their first ever gigs or in the top 5 of their first gigs - September 75...

What your memories of events at the Town Hall perhas it's the Queen visiting or something?

Margaret Pilkington · 19-05-2012, 16:09

My first visit to the town hall was to sing in a music festival.......this was many years ago...I was a pupil at Peel Park school......and Vivian Ronchetti was in my year and played the violin in the same music festival.
I thought the staircase was very impressive.

jaysay · 19-05-2012, 17:18

Think my first visit was when my Uncle was chairman of Church UDC and he had his Chairman's Ball there, round about 1963, the reason I remember it was there was about 4 inch of snow on the ground when we came out

susie123 · 19-05-2012, 17:20

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

My first visit to the town hall was to sing in a music festival.......this was many years ago...I was a pupil at Peel Park school......and Vivian Ronchetti was in my year and played the violin in the same music festival.
I thought the staircase was very impressive.

Vivian Ronchetti and her violin... that name rings a bell, though I didn't go to Peel Park. Did she go on to the High School?

susie123 · 19-05-2012, 17:41

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Originally Posted by susie123

Vivian Ronchetti and her violin... that name rings a bell, though I didn't go to Peel Park. Did she go on to the High School?

She obviously went on to greater things...

http://www.nysastrings.org.uk/nysafounder.html

Had to get the name right to find this on Google... That e on the end made all the difference...

Wynonie Harris · 19-05-2012, 17:47

My first visit was my first ever gig, too - Harry Corbett and Sooty 1956. Heavy!

annesingleton · 19-05-2012, 18:56

My resounding memory is going to my ex husband's work do there many years ago, my daughter worked with the same firm at the time. Her friend came looking absolutely beautiful and sophisticated in a strapless evening dress. She had too much to drink and at the end of the night she fell downstairs, wet herself and her boobs fell out of her dress! That sounds awful but was actually very very funny, I suppose you'd have to know the person who has also found it funny, so I'm not gossiping.

Margaret Pilkington · 19-05-2012, 19:08

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Originally Posted by susie123

Vivian Ronchetti and her violin... that name rings a bell, though I didn't go to Peel Park. Did she go on to the High School?

Yes she did Sue...sorry about the missing 'e'...i thought I did quite well to remember her name at all.

She was quite a prodigy....and was held up as a shining example to us lesser beings, by Mr Hinchliffe(the headmaster).
I struggled to get a tune of any sort out my little wooden recorder - but I could play hell with a big stick and a basket of eggs

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Thanks for the link...I often wondered what happened to her.

susie123 · 19-05-2012, 19:16

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes she did Sue...sorry about the missing 'e'...i thought I did quite well to remember her name at all.

She was quite a prodigy....and was held up as a shining example to us lesser beings, by Mr Hinchliffe(the headmaster).
I struggled to get a tune of any sort out my little wooden recorder - but I could play hell with a big stick and a basket of eggs

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Thanks for the link...I often wondered what happened to her.

Well I would never have thought of putting an e on the end either. I also found her referred to as Vivienne on the net, a more usual spelling.

Margaret Pilkington · 19-05-2012, 19:19

I can still see her as a pupil at school..tiny delicate thing...her violin case looked far too big for her to carry.
It is strange the things that you remember.

susie123 · 19-05-2012, 19:23

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I can still see her as a pupil at school..tiny delicate thing...her violin case looked far too big for her to carry.
It is strange the things that you remember.

Yes I have a similar image. I must have seen her play somewhere.

Eric · 19-05-2012, 22:43

Accy Grammar speech days ... George Crick at the piano, leading the choir ... all the teachers in their academic gowns ... and the granting of a half-day holiday traditionally asked of the Headmaster by the speaker ... I (think) I remember one year it was Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC.

mobertol · 19-05-2012, 22:46

Went in the last year at junior school -a "class" council was elected and a Major and we had a meeting in the council chamber!

maxthecollie · 20-05-2012, 07:31

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Originally Posted by Eric

Accy Grammar speech days ... George Crick at the piano, leading the choir ... all the teachers in their academic gowns ... and the granting of a half-day holiday traditionally asked of the Headmaster by the speaker ... I (think) I remember one year it was Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC.

Forgot about that

accyman · 23-05-2012, 15:53

in the 70's early 80's accytown hall used to hold a fair/jumble event each month on a saturday and i used to take my little brother hunting for action man gear