Today in pictures - Page 4

Margaret Pilkington · 28-05-2012, 21:53

Dave you should be producing tourist information Brochures........you make Clayton look like a place worth visiting......it looks positively beautiful.

davemac · 28-05-2012, 22:07

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Originally Posted by hassy rvr

Thanks for that Dave I love looking at pics and these are brill.

Any chance you could have a go?

davemac · 28-05-2012, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave you should be producing tourist information Brochures........you make Clayton look like a place worth visiting......it looks positively beautiful.

It looks that good, I might move there myself.

Margaret Pilkington · 29-05-2012, 05:46

Me too!

Lost in Cornwall · 29-05-2012, 09:01

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Originally Posted by davemac

Its accepted locally that its the Con club on Whalley Road, below it bottom, above top. I will however accept other reasons for locations.

I always thought it was the canal bridge/ con club but whichever way you look at it I was brought up as a bottom ender.

susie123 · 29-05-2012, 09:18

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Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

I always thought it was the canal bridge/ con club but whichever way you look at it I was brought up as a bottom ender.

Wikipedia has

Clayton-le-Moors is said to be a town of halves. Residents were 'top-ender' or 'bottom-ender', depending on which side of the Load O'Mischief pub, now demolished to make way for the M65 motorway. The two had firm opinions about each other and rarely mixed There was, however, an annual football match between each at the running track at Wilson's Playing Fields.

The reference given is

http://www.visitlancashire.com/site/...e-moors-p96170

but I can find no mention of the subject there. Mind you that site also has a picture of the Market Hall which is labelled as the Town Hal lso I don't know how reliable it is.

cashman · 29-05-2012, 09:48

I take wiki wi a pinch o salt, anybody can put owt on yon susie.

susie123 · 29-05-2012, 10:03

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Originally Posted by cashman

I take wiki wi a pinch o salt, anybody can put owt on yon susie.

I do, Cashy I do. Just waiting for the right answer to the top/bottom ender debate to surface - if there is one! Eric, where are you?

davemac · 29-05-2012, 18:54

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Originally Posted by susie123

Wikipedia has

Clayton-le-Moors is said to be a town of halves. Residents were 'top-ender' or 'bottom-ender', depending on which side of the Load O'Mischief pub, now demolished to make way for the M65 motorway. The two had firm opinions about each other and rarely mixed There was, however, an annual football match between each at the running track at Wilson's Playing Fields.

The reference given is

Destination Guide to Lancashire - Towns & Villages

but I can find no mention of the subject there. Mind you that site also has a picture of the Market Hall which is labelled as the Town Hal lso I don't know how reliable it is.

I have heard that reference before , but I believe its wrong, I used to be a bottom ender some 15 years ago, and then I moved and was refered to as a topender, and I am this side of what used to be the Load.

I still go down to the area refered to as a bottom end, but only to chase parked cars.

Margaret Pilkington · 29-05-2012, 19:30

I have lived in Clayton since 1966......top end......Henry Street at first then down by the canal.
I always thought that the top end ended at the Albion/Con club...but am happy to be corrected...after all, I am only a jumped up foreigner from Accrington(that is what someone once called me many years ago).

davemac · 29-05-2012, 21:16

Todays effort Part 1.
1. Leaving Clayton and on way to Church.
2. Chillaxing on Riley's Swing Bridge.
3. A big herd of gooses.
4. Nearly at Church Kirk.
5. Over Church Kirk Bridge and away to Rishton.
6. Looking out toward The Nab.
7. Looking back at St. James Church, and the bridge.
8. Where the Leeds/Liverpool canal crosses the M65, whilst I was there they had discovered a leak under the bridge on the motorway, apparently it had dropped off a greengrocers wagon
9. I can see my house from here.
10. High Street Rishton.

davemac · 29-05-2012, 21:33

No cant upload, so will try later.

davemac · 29-05-2012, 21:38

Found the problem. I'm crackers.Anyway back to business

Todays effort Part 1.
1. Leaving Clayton and on way to Church.
2. Chillaxing on Riley's Swing Bridge.
3. A big herd of gooses.
4. Nearly at Church Kirk.
5. Over Church Kirk Bridge and away to Rishton.
6. Looking out toward The Nab.
7. Looking back at St. James Church, and the bridge.
8. Where the Leeds/Liverpool canal crosses the M65, whilst I was there they had discovered a leak under the bridge on the motorway, apparently it had dropped off a greengrocers wagon
9. I can see my house from here.
10. High Street Rishton.

davemac · 29-05-2012, 21:43

Today in pictures Part 2.
11. Is that not the biggest barge you have seen?
12. Off the canal and on to Tottleworth.
13. St James Church, from Tottleworth.
14. The Coppice and Hameldon from same location.

davemac · 29-05-2012, 21:57

Whilst I am winning I will post Today in flowers.
1. The Irises are out, I didn't know they were going on strike
2. Nitbone on the canal bank at Church.
3. Hawthorn, wild variety.
4. Nitbone again, this time at Rishton on the canal.
5. Dog rose full bloom.
6. Dog rose bud, didn't notice the greenfly until I got home.
7. Cornflower.
8. Vetch, again didn't notice the ants at the time.
9. Ash tree keys (seeds) maturing in the sun.
10. Hawthorn, cultivated, growing in a garden.