River Stink - Page 4

staggeringman · 07-12-2004, 17:34

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Originally Posted by jelly baby

I remember the Ball family quite well, Ced used to ping the bra straps of us girls when we went down the fair. Ray, his younger brother married a friend of mine, Angela, But they are now divorced. Ray lives in Blackpool now and owns a shoe shop, call Balls.

what ever happened to carol?Is ced still about not seen him for years!

kestrelx · 08-12-2004, 17:20

Now there were never any Eels above the river Calder at Whalley,and the Hynburn Flows into that River System so it must be all to do with the polution pumped in from Blythes chemicals...I would like to go under the tunnel from back of the Bridge Pub under the town centre to the other side...you would need breathing gear though and lights!

now Accystankev the big fish were trout mate!

staggeringman · 08-12-2004, 17:47

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

Now there were never any Eels above the river Calder at Whalley,and the Hynburn Flows into that River System so it must be all to do with the polution pumped in from Blythes chemicals...I would like to go under the tunnel from back of the Bridge Pub under the town centre to the other side...you would need breathing gear though and lights!

now Accystankev the big fish were trout mate!

I have been through the tunnels from blyths down to the dunk! I thought eels prefered still waters, to running water? they use the running water to get into the mainland and reside in the ponds , lodges and lakes.
ps.....Its also very tasty!

WillowTheWhisp · 08-12-2004, 23:44

Any idea how narrow it is in those tunnels? Are they tunnels? I remember we had a debate not long ago about when is a tunnel not a tunnel.

Terry · 16-12-2004, 05:37

I 'm getting off my own post here, but I have this photo that shows the rear of the shops in Whalley rd just down from the railway bridge. I took this photo because it has a billboard ad. that says 'Root and Rummage textiles' 83 Whalley Rd. As you may or not know the word 'root' has a different meaning in Aus. But where am I standing? I have to presume that I am on the old site of what used to be Milton St. Also, I seem to remember that I spotted this sign from Bull Bridge, but according to the photo that Mick posted on thread 38 no 1 pic, there is a huge building in the way. Was this building built after '88?

Alan Gilmartin · 16-12-2004, 08:16

Did'nt The lady at the Dunkenhalgh, drown herself in the stink a couple of hundred yrs ago. My dad found the body of a lad, in the stink at Clayton near where you cross to go over the fields to Snuffy errod, he said his ears and nose were nibbled off by the rats.

lettie · 16-12-2004, 09:43

The huge building would be the tax office Terry. I can't remember the exact year it was built. Funnily enough, after the Accyweb meet up on Saturday Sparky and I decided to walk back to Accy from Church. We past the River Stink as we got into Accy and we can confirm that it still stinks. You don't smell it during the day probably with all the traffic around, but it certainly stinks at night.

pendy · 17-12-2004, 14:16

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Originally Posted by lettie

The huge building would be the tax office Terry. I can't remember the exact year it was built. Funnily enough, after the Accyweb meet up on Saturday Sparky and I decided to walk back to Accy from Church. We past the River Stink as we got into Accy and we can confirm that it still stinks. You don't smell it during the day probably with all the traffic around, but it certainly stinks at night.

The tax office, eh? - now we know where the river got its stink from!

Acrylic-bob · 17-12-2004, 16:00

It shouldn't smell at all. If it does then someone, somewhere is breaking the law. Perhaps you should inform the Environment Agency.

carolef · 02-02-2006, 00:46

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Originally Posted by staggeringman

there where two cottages next to the graveyard one got knocked down and the other stood for a few years after!the people that lived in there had the surname ball!there is a couple i remember cedric who was a big guy and rode moterbikes, and carol his younger sister who was small and petite,the fair used to be held across the road on ellisons tennant,i also remember the graveyard being dug up to make way for modernisation.

hiya my name is carole ball i lived at 12 hyndburn rd with my dad and my brothers sadly it dosent even look like the same place any more happy memories of playing on the gasworks all summer long with my best pal dzieni koman. my dad worked for the gasboard who owned the house and he managed the gasworks

carolef · 02-02-2006, 00:52

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Originally Posted by staggeringman

what ever happened to carol?Is ced still about not seen him for years!

hiya carole its carole ball here what a great web site only just found it im now living in rossendale married with 3 grown up lads of my own i have great memories of hyndburn rd