DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

We need a bit more room but have to wait until Tesco & then B&Q vacate our new shop

You should make the Maunday Model Village an offer, she can't refuse.

That'd be a step in the right direction.

Get rid of the facilitator, and the pushers, and junkies would begin to disappear from our streets.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

Much like the 'business man' who was about to turn the Con club into a £15 million development. Apartments, shops, and an arboretum, if I remember correctly.

Easy to talk big.

Reality's sometimes different.

Not knocking entrepreneurship, by the way.

Just sometimes a little sceptical.

Talk is cheap.

Easier to take more seriously when someone has a proven track record, has made sure an idea is actually feasible, and that there's a market, and also has access to the money to fund their grandiose plans.

Who can forget in the eighties, when Huncoat was going to rival Disney as a worldwide tourist destination, with the Zeri centre, or whatever it was going to be called?

[walkinman221]

Originally Posted by garinda

Not knocking entrepreneurship, by the way.

Just sometimes a little sceptical.

Talk is cheap.

Easier to take more seriously when someone has a proven track record, has made sure an idea is actually feasible, and that there's a market, and also has access to the money to fund their grandiose plans.

Who can forget in the eighties, when Huncoat was going to rival Disney as a worldwide tourist destination, with the Zeri centre, or whatever it was going to be called?

You beat me to it was just going to mention Mr quigiliotti or whayever his name was

[cashman]

twas Eddie Quigliotti, the marvel that never was.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

twas Eddie Quigliotti, the marvel that never was.

Apparently sadly no longer with us, but here's his obituary, which mentions the Zeri centre.

Mr Eddie Quiligotti MBE planned to call the centre Zeri after his home village in Tuscany.
The former tile company boss announced the plan to an incredulous population amid a blaze of publicity in 1989.
It was to have featured winter and summer worlds, a huge 15,000-seater stadium and a 300-room hotel spread over the 300-acre site of the former power station.
It would have been Europe’s largest theme park and holiday centre, and it was projected to create 5,000 jobs and attract 4,000 visitors a day.
The idea was embraced by planners as a way of guaranteeing Hyndburn’s fame and fortune for years to come.
The winter wonderland was to have contained an ice palace, ski-ing on six dry slopes, a toboggan run and a lake while a sea world would have provided aquaria, water rides and boat trips.
Also earmarked for Zeri were restaurants, shops, cinemas, villas, a conference centre, gardens and an adventureland with light shows and white knuckle rides.
And the diverse attractions would have been linked by a one-and-a-half-mile-long cable car track similar to the one used in ski resorts.
The idea was taken extremely seriously for a time, with then planning officer John Tilley stating: "This is the biggest thing that will ever happen around here. People will be attracted to the area for holidays and some may never set foot outside the complex."
But the plan never got off the drawing board and four years later it was announced that the bubble had finally burst.
Mr Quiligotti had pledged £1M of his own cash to the scheme but as a recession began to bite he failed to attract the financial backing for the remaining £299M.
He said sadly: "It is all over. I have been banging my head against a brick wall."
But critics said they had known what would happen right from the start.

[walkinman221]

Originally Posted by cashman

twas Eddie Quigliotti, the marvel that never was.

Nearly got it right

[walkinman221]

Originally Posted by garinda

Apparently sadly no longer with us, but here's his obituary, which mentions the Zeri centre.

Mr Eddie Quiligotti MBE planned to call the centre Zeri after his home village in Tuscany.
The former tile company boss announced the plan to an incredulous population amid a blaze of publicity in 1989.
It was to have featured winter and summer worlds, a huge 15,000-seater stadium and a 300-room hotel spread over the 300-acre site of the former power station.
It would have been Europe’s largest theme park and holiday centre, and it was projected to create 5,000 jobs and attract 4,000 visitors a day.
The idea was embraced by planners as a way of guaranteeing Hyndburn’s fame and fortune for years to come.
The winter wonderland was to have contained an ice palace, ski-ing on six dry slopes, a toboggan run and a lake while a sea world would have provided aquaria, water rides and boat trips.
Also earmarked for Zeri were restaurants, shops, cinemas, villas, a conference centre, gardens and an adventureland with light shows and white knuckle rides.
And the diverse attractions would have been linked by a one-and-a-half-mile-long cable car track similar to the one used in ski resorts.
The idea was taken extremely seriously for a time, with then planning officer John Tilley stating: "This is the biggest thing that will ever happen around here. People will be attracted to the area for holidays and some may never set foot outside the complex."
But the plan never got off the drawing board and four years later it was announced that the bubble had finally burst.
Mr Quiligotti had pledged £1M of his own cash to the scheme but as a recession began to bite he failed to attract the financial backing for the remaining £299M.
He said sadly: "It is all over. I have been banging my head against a brick wall."
But critics said they had known what would happen right from the start.

I wonder if the wall was made of nori's

[bzk]

Originally Posted by garinda

One thing Burnley has, that Accy doesn't, is a thriving nightlife.

Yeh what happened?
Back in the grey days of the Major government, Accy was thriving 4 nights a week. Sunday nights people were queuing up to get into the bars. Lots of new bars opened.

During the early naughties it started to tail off, the nightclub mysteriously burnt down, then the smoking ban.

In the last year it has probably picked up a bit at weekends, remaining pubs on Abbey St quite busy Friday & Saturday nights. Bees Knees busy after about 1130pm but I'm saying nowt about what some of them look like.

So what happened and how to get it back?

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by wadey

"Badger Books" 22 Keirby Walk Burnley is shutting down !

It's actually moving to Standish St

[lindsay ormerod]

I agree with everything that Maconie has to say on the subject of our not so lovely town, shame he didn't mention the Maundy blight, seems like no-one is willing to take on St Dorothy, I hadn't realised until this evening that the empire now includes the old Taskers store.

[Mancie]

It's a good job the camera crew only filmed the town centre and didn't venture up Woodnook way.. phew what a let off!

[magpie]

Originally Posted by Mancie

It's a good job the camera crew only filmed the town centre and didn't venture up Woodnook way.. phew what a let off!

they could not have afforded the security.....

[Anniebee58]

Accrington is not all bad, we have a great Art Gallery, which brings in lots of visitors from other towns, we have the Globe Centre and Traders Brasserie which serves great food made by the Students of the Catering College.We also have two new health centres which cater for the health needs of the local population. And we also have a state of the art dental Centre, which trains dentists from all over Lancashire. The Market Hall has just been awarded Great Market 2011 and the people are the most friendly people you could wish to meet. I just wish people would stop knocking the town, this negativity does not help anyone.

[cashman]

Nor does bull, take yer rose tinted off! the 2 new heath centres are a joke, a bad joke, i use one n missus moved outa the other. i would move also but have great respect fer doc, shame i can never get to see him since the move.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Anniebee58

The Market Hall has just been awarded Great Market 2011

glad to see yeh got a sense of humour