Today in pictures

[cashman]

Originally Posted by davemac

seriously though, it cant rain forever, or can it?

Well its forecast locally fer next 10 days at least.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh botherations.

[Gordon Booth]

Davemacs picture of the Coppice, post 219, - I didn't recognise it, it's covered in trees!
Looks much better than when it was all bare and stony-a nice place for walks now?
Any more pictures of it?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Gordon, Davemac has taken quite a few pics.....there is a very good one where Bob(his dog) is sitting on the monument looking down over Accrington.
This thread has really stirred up some interest in the picturesque places that many of us really take for granted.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I lied Gordon...the picture I am thinking of is on Davemacs Flickr page.
here is a link(I hope Davemac doesn't mind)
Coppice, the return | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The whole photostream is worth a look. Some very good pics of the local area.

[Margaret Pilkington]

This is the one.

Wet and Windy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[davemac]

I think you will see from todays contribution, I was the only person out in the rain, well almost.

Today in Pictures, moisture in motion.

1. Accy Cem main drive. Used to work here for a few years.
2. Accy crem. Worked here as well.
3. Looking back up the main drive.
4. Off to Oak Hill Park, used to work here as well, a view of the war memorial.
5. Shelter, top of rockery.
6. Bandstand with coppice behind.
7. This used to be my "mess room", well the bit I sat in, they knocked down.
8. A look up the main drive, The bed with lupins, I used to double dig this with loads of "hoss muck".
9. This was the first view of Oak Hill Park I got when I turned up to start my apprenticeship.
10. And finally back down Manchester Road, time for a brew.

There are a million stories in Today in Pictures, this has been one of them. Dave mac, reporting for BBC News, handing you back to the studio.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't know how you do it........even the pictures of the Crem look good.
I keep promising myself a visit to Oakhill Park. I spent many happy hours playing there when I should have been at the Wesley Methodist Sunday school...spent the collection money on Beech Nut...but that's another story.

[susie123]

Am I enjoying myself? | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dave I think you should inform your dog when he gets that look on his face that he is in very posh company:

At Eton a wet-bob is a boy who goes in for boating, but a dry-bob is one who goes in for cricket.

Wet-bob — Infoplease.com

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by susie123

Am I enjoying myself? | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dave I think you should inform your dog when he gets that look on his face that he is in very posh company:

At Eton a wet-bob is a boy who goes in for boating, but a dry-bob is one who goes in for cricket.

Wet-bob — Infoplease.com

You are a mine of information...no wonder you are damn good at quizzes.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

You are a mine of information...no wonder you are damn good at quizzes.

A mine of information? - I've always said a mind like a dustbin!

[Margaret Pilkington]

No, Sue...that's my mind( the dustbin, I mean).......I store useless bits of info.......even about things I don't care about...like football, and other sports.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No, Sue...that's my mind( the dustbin, I mean).......I store useless bits of info.......even about things I don't care about...like football, and other sports.

Most of mine is useless too...

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't know how you do it........even the pictures of the Crem look good.
I keep promising myself a visit to Oakhill Park. I spent many happy hours playing there when I should have been at the Wesley Methodist Sunday school...spent the collection money on Beech Nut...but that's another story.

There used to be three chapels in the cemetery, all demolished long ago, the crematorium is built on the foundations of the center chapel.
Notice the headstones and vault markers close to the chapels are the biggest in the cemetery, these places were reserved for the movers and shapers (the money) of the borough. This is so that the people visiting the chapels would notice the families of importance, snobbery in death, allegedly.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Am I enjoying myself? | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dave I think you should inform your dog when he gets that look on his face that he is in very posh company:

At Eton a wet-bob is a boy who goes in for boating, but a dry-bob is one who goes in for cricket.

Wet-bob — Infoplease.com

So whats the term for a wet davemac..........there will be a prize for the best answer........... "k"