Why would you steal that??

[Uncle Mick]

I remember in my youth climbing over the " Dizzy " wall armed with a screwdriver to get the knobs off the dumped gas cookers. Well our damn cooker was years old, you could`nt get the parts and I was doing my mum and dad a favour!!

[Gobsmacked]

Dizzy ????????????

[Uncle Mick]

Dizzy=Destructor at the end of Argyle street where the bin wagons used to empty all the rubbish before they discovered landfill!

[chav1]

ahhh the dizzy was full of all sorts of treasures when i was a kid we used to get BMX frames there and build our own bikes

must have been faulty frames lol but they worked fine enough

i dunno how old you are but the dizzy was a scrap yard wehen i was a kid and is now used by pilkington buses


if you remember the dizzy then you must remember the RATTY ...?

[Busman747]

For Sale.....


Almost brand new cooker, Left in rain by previous owner therefore suffering from hypothermia. Beautiful colour, made to fit any kitchen..................

Can anyone offer this poor dejected appliance a home...at £20-00?

Please contact P.B. @ H.B.C, for details......

[Uncle Mick]

Ah yes the Rats Back... spent most of my childhood down there, playing by the gasometers ( How deep was that water round their base!) paddling in the River Stink and a handy short cut to the fair. Next you`ll be saying you played on the Donkeys Field` Chav!!

[chav1]

aye the donkey field

we used to ride our bikes down the slope into the long grass if it wasnt cut for a while it got waist high

the small group of trees in the middle were good for climbing

they put some houses and a nursing home there now

its the destruction of all these plaves like the dizzy , ratty and donkey field that give kids nothing else to do but drink booze on back alleys and hang around the streets

the only thing we have left is the coppice these days and some wan**r wants to ruin that as well with some crappy piece of art

inbetween milnshaw park and gatty park there used to be a huge pond but that got filled in by HBC although no one ever drowned there as far as i know and was great for tadpoling etc

infact they destroyed a good set of ponds whne building the BMW gararge and dindt realy need to as they were way at the back of the BMW gararge on hyndburn road

if anyone knows of any tadpoling places that are left please post them up because i would like to take my kids tadpoling as a break from the xbox lol

[Sparkologist]

When I was a sproglet, living up Ossy, we used to go tadpoling in a pond behind where Stanhill Ring Mill used to be, half way up Aspen Lane, then tun off to the right.