Not in Preston's Back Yard

Acrylic-bob · 15-04-2005, 06:48

To Preston yesterday, to visit the premises of Bako Northwestern Ltd. My life is a hectic social whirl, I know.
Anyway, the premises are located on the outskirts of Preston in Ribbleton. How grand! How verdant! Miles of shady tree lined avenues, roundabouts and juctions copiously supplied with sculpture. By the side of Bako's premises there is even a Hotel and a fishing lake! You could hardly imagine that it was an industrial estate. It is beautiful, well planned, spacious and a delight to visit. Indeed, you would never know that the M6 motorway passes right beside it.
It is abundantly clear where the vast bulk of the money that the government has pumped into the county has been spent! It is also clear, despite the abundance of empty plots there, why Lancashire County Council is insisting that the Huncoat power sation site is the only suitable place for the siting of the brand spanking new Waste Treatment Plant that they are railroading through the planning procedure.

Could you imagine the mess that the daily passage of hundreds of bin wagons would make to such a delightful and well planned and maintained industrial park? It would be shocking! Far better then to site it in some out of the way hole where it would not be noticed - like Huncoat!

Perhaps this might be something you would like to quiz the prospective County Council Candidates about when they come knocking at your door.

vorlon24 · 15-04-2005, 08:27

Do they come knocking up there then?

I haven't seen anyone from any political party for some months now.

Acrylic-bob · 15-04-2005, 08:41

Good point mate. They say they do but, like you, I cannot recall the last conversation I had with a politician on my doorstep. I think it may have been sometime in the mid-seventies but alas it was over all to soon and now I cannot be sure.

However, I think that this time I will be casting my vote for that nice Mr Chamberlain.

cashman · 15-04-2005, 10:30

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Good point mate. They say they do but, like you, I cannot recall the last conversation I had with a politician on my doorstep. I think it may have been sometime in the mid-seventies but alas it was over all to soon and now I cannot be sure.

However, I think that this time I will be casting my vote for that nice Mr Chamberlain.

probably was mid to late 70s,i got one then.telling me of the wonders of the zeri or xeri complex,what a mr e.quigioloti or someguy was going to do for HUNCOAT, (its a long time coming)

Acrylic-bob · 15-04-2005, 10:42

Wasn't that some sort of entertainment complex or theme park idea? It sank without trace more than a decade ago.

vorlon24 · 15-04-2005, 10:47

We have a building in the centre of town that closed as a cinema a few years ago.

Since then we have had suggestions of a cinema, exotic dancing club (in Tunbridge Wells!!!), nightclub, cinema (again) and housing.

The bureaucrats still haven't decided, and we are left with a white elephant in the middle of town that has now become the target of graffiti and bill posters.

Looks like there are not that many differences between north and south after all!