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the little wooden hut at the bottom of
Oak St twas a paper shop in my day i think
the owner was called Taylor

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I can remember that beechy, is it still there, I haven't been in Accy for years

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No not there anymore John there are gardens there now Garth Dawson i seem to remember had a little wood hut across road as well .

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when was this?, I dont remember :(, anyone got a pic?

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certainly in the sixties and in to the seventies

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Used to get my Sweets from there on the way to/from School. His name was Taylor and his missus used to work there too!

Best Regards - Taggy

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it closed down in 1980 something......

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Thats why then, i was only a nipper in the seventies:rolleyes::p

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Do you remember John Flynn and son fish mongers ...spring hill ?

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I remember them well, used to garage their wagon right next to St Marys School on Moscow Mill Street, near to Bill Dashes house, It used to stink to high heaven in the Summer

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Flynn's Fishmongers was owned by my life-long friend's father, Bill Wilcock. His son Tom, who worked with him, died just a couple of months ago aged 76.

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Who Remembers when we had "Proper" Winters with heavy snow every year,n never once a school was closed.:rolleyes:

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no body that old cashy, not even you, LOL

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Well if Beechy don't remember them cashy I do, can remember when it snowed there was always a drift right outside our front door usually about 3 foot deep, one year it was 6 foot, we used to have a whale of a time in those days:D

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Remember Tom very well West Ender, used to pop in Ossy Con for a couple of halves of Mild on a regular basis, used to chat with him most times he was in, was sad to hear of his death

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its a memory thing wi ex-lanesiders mate.;)

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it never snowed around Laneside :D
and St Johns was always a pleasure to go to :D

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well it did on the "Donkey Field" n "Highams":) loved St. Johns.;)

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It probably daren't snw there beechy:D

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going up to The Bumps on the DEATH Plank.....
scary or what

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Fell off this when doing the 'bumps', and broke me arm, mind you was also trying to jump onto the framework bar at the same time .. and missed :rolleyes:

"Peel Park angels; St. John's sausages" ... :p

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I remember all of this the peanuts, Mr Vandome at St Marys, Stanhil ring etc

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i remember it well being brought up in huncoat & accrington could just do with some now happy memories.
amy bracewell

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Who remembers Tuff Wayfinder shoes? The ones with Animal Track prints on the sole's and a diddy compass in the heel!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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I bet you wore a liberty bodice and took your rosehip syrup every morning before you set off for school in your Wayfinders.;)

http://museums.leics.gov.uk/collecti...980_80_0am.jpg

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....and arnt you forgetting my balaclava???:D

Best Regards - Taggy

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Thought only Robers and the SAS wore them Taggy:D

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Afraid i'm sworn to secrecy Jaysay!!;)


Best Regards - Taggy

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nah robbers prefer tights, just nick outa the old ladys drawer, why buy a balaclava?:D

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That's okay so long as they put um back afterwards:D

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i
remember the cafe in the market hall homemade food lovely
the old swiming baths with the cabins round the pool
then a bag of chips from the chippy opps the baths
then would watch the wheels turning at the coal mine to see how long it took to get to the pit bottom
then saturdays at the odeon we come along on a saturday morning knowing its not worth while and members of the teddy boy club we intend to be forgot the rest in the mist of time

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No, no, no...the way it went was "We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile, we come along on Saturday morning knowing it's not worth while, as members of the Odeon Club we all intend to be good teddy boys when we grow up..." (instead of "citizens")...and some of us did! ;)

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So you had Brothel creepers too Wynonie:D

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I was thinking more of some of the other chaps who went to the Odeon Club and who later went on to attain ted status (quite a few of whom were mates of Cashy's! :D). However, as it happens, I do have a pair of brothel creepers (blue suede ones, too!), somewhere in the garage. Thanks for reminding me, Jaysay...might get 'em out and give 'em an airing if the weather improves. :cool:

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fer my money the most comfortable shoe ever made! though not to great fer puncing dingles.:D

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I had a pair of crepe soles once - they were great for rubbing out chalk marks on flagstones when you were redoing the markings for hopscotch.

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10 Hole Docks were better for that:D

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Who remembers the "Polish" grocers shop in accy? 50s/early 60s was a top guy with a mustache, that ran it, forget his name or when it closed was on whalley road across from "Marshalls":confused:

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That deli was on Melbourne St, on the corner opposite Melbourne House, before it was demolished to make the dual carriageway.
They were a lovely couple who owned it. They were refugees from the Hungarian revolution (the 1st one -that failed)

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no i am not on about that one margaret, the one i said is polish n whalley rd, me mate knew him well n we used to go in regular, he was always giving us weird n wonderful things to try.:)

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Remember the Polish Bakery on Catlow Hall Street, Ossy, it always smelt great when you were on he way home from the pub:D

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owt smelt great when rat arsed if it was edible.:D

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Thats why everybody likes a Donar with plenty chilli sause on cashy:D

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Does any one know if there is any photos of John flynn the fish monger or of the wagon they used to use .
I am looking for any information on them for my family history, I do know john and his wife Ellen adopted one of the henry brothers and took his brother Richard Henry ,I believe after their parents died.
i can be contacted at
[email protected]

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I was weaned on Lions mild in 1962/63 at 1/3d a pint that's perhaps why I don't remember much of this

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Richard is the only one of the Henry brothers still alive both Tom and John died a few years ago. John lived a few doors away from me for a while and often popped in for a chat, his son Jack(who I went to school with)still lives on the John Street Estate in Ossy

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Me too Tony, in the Heys Inn, I was always told if you can drink Lions you can tame um:D

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Yes cashy - I remember 1947 - just. We lived in Oswald St and everyone cleared their section of pavement, The mounds of snow were so high that we kids built snow caves in them - sledging down the street and straight acroos Washington St - what would Health & Safety think of that nowadays.

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thought the saying was ..."Thwaites for mates , Duttons for gluttons and if you sup Lions you deserve a bloody clawing " :D

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Well Lions was definitely an acquired taste SJ, and I managed to acquire it at an early age:D

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Do you remember the Christmas Special ale?

Was it called OLD TOM or OLD BEN?
One was LION & one was THWAITES.
Strong enough to blow your cap off!

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Old Tom was Lions
Old Dan was Duttons I think

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Old Dan was Thwaites in a nip sized bottle but they also did a special at Christmas.
Think they also did a Big Ben.:theband:

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It was like a barley wine if I remember right beni, never really bothered with bottles, sometimes a pint glass wasn't big enough for me:D

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I remember the black stains on the houses and the women on bended knees rubbing the front door step with a soft sand stone which they had exchanged rags for from the rag and bone man, a sight to see on a Saturday morning all the women in their slippers with hairnets on or headscarfs rubbing away.

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Donkey Stones..was the term used for the soft sand stones
todays woman doesnt know shes born :eek::eek:

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Donkey stones yes, available at LIDL not, so is there a modern day method of sprucing up the front step, i suppose the demise of a lot of mills has helped keep them a bit cleaner.

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think some called em Pumice Stones also.:)

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was pumice stones not those little grey stones
you had in your bathroom
for getting rid of dead skin on your feet ?
who needs modern beauty treatment....:D:D:D

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yeh may well be correct beechy? as we never had a bathroom.:D

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Chapped bum in the winter then cashy:D

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Good old st mary's. Went there, loved it.

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I remember wearing clogs ... used to get them at the cloggers on Barnes St, left hand side going up to Barnes Sq. .... used to run down the street and make sparks with the clog irons .... had to be careful not to wear the irons out too quickly, or my mum would go ballistic .....

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Anyone remember the Church of New Jerusalem in Clayton?

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down the bottom of aurthur st
we used to go to the youth club dances there early 60s :theband:

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Yeh ... that's where it was, or is. My mom was a member of that church ...

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Just pinged Arthur St. on Google Earth .... I see the Rec is still there .... lived for a while on Queen St. before my mom and dad split up ... and my gran lived on Victoria St. I see that the cobblestone streets are gone; what a surprise, eh.

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Cobbled Streets gone, Bloody hell Eric you have been gone a long time:D

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Still plenty around Jaysay as per Chapel Street in Clayton, which Eric will remember:

Attachment 14431

Did see an L.C.C. notice that it will be closed to allow highway maintenance to be carried out ... 31st August >> 21st September. Can't see it just being weed removal ... possibly re-surfacing ? :(

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Can't think there is any in Ossy kate, Chapel St. Clayton I thought that was an unadopted road, its a one sided street If I remember rightly, facing some allotments or fields, not sure, have a friend who lives on there

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I remember Chapel Street .... right in the old 'hood .... I really do believe that at least one street should be left with the old cobblestones ... it really does have some historical value .... maybe declare it a local heritage site, or something like that ... leave it as sort of an outdoor museum exhibit ... it's not like Chapel St. is a main drag (translation available if needed) ... maybe one of the local councilors could look into it.

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A mate of my brothers lived in Chapel St, Kieth Topham. Alaso I used to go to the youth club, a copper called John Garner used to run it, local groups played on a friday night, the Scorchers and Tredwheels & so on, with Roy Taylor,

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I've just been thinking about cobbled streets, I can't remember as I ain't been down for a while, but is the Straits in Ossy cobbled or is it tarmacked now, bet Gayle knows:D

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Remember Keith Topham, Alan. My in-laws lived on Chapel Street for years ... think was the third one up. Father-in-law had Ellison Fold Garage behind Chapel Street. They then moved across the road into the sheltered accommodation there.

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worked wi Roy fer 23 yrs, still about, lives up bash, bumped into him at burnley mechanics couple of yrs back,:)

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My sister Patsy clough formerly Mckenna worked at moscow mill for ages and our entire family went to good old st marys. Patsy, Colin, Tommy, Joe and Sharon. We lived in one of the cottages in fielding lane close by pothouse lane. Remember picnics at (cocolumb) brook.Haven't a clue how to spell that! Was a fabulous place to be kids, open countryside and freedom to wander. Shame it is all built up these days.

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Nor did we, we had a loo in back yard. Good old days eh!

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Remember the club well, we thought it was the biz at the time.

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remember Morice Hindle well, creepy guy always brushed too close if you were waiting at the bus stop.

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When we were kids in Ossy we thought the winters were ace, some mornings the snow drifts would cover the cottage windows. We would have icicles on the inside of the windows. Don't think i could cope with that now.

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Not a terrible lot of building in that neck of the woods, Cocker Lumb was very much the same the last time I ventured in that area, still plenty of open spaces all around Ossy

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Have been taking a quick look around, and Jaysay is correct ... there are not too many cobbled streets left ... just seem to be the ones that come to a dead end (no through traffic) e.g. Corn Mill Yard off Whalley Road. Of course, nearly all the back streets are still cobbled.

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Still cobbled Jaysay ... noticed it yesterday.

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Thanks kate, can always remember it being cobbled, because my Dad had a garage at the bottom of the Straits next to the Nash Club, and the bone shaking ride I endured getting the car out for work

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is rowland st accy still cobbled?

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Don't know ... but the bottom of Clarence St. by the inner harbour is still cobbled ... and there are a couple of nice pubs down there (the Pilot House and the Prince George) that even you haven't been turfed out of;):D

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thats only cos me late missus backed out of emigrating to canada in mid 70s mate.:D

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You missed out big time bud ... imagine a pub crawl over six time zones:eek::eek::eek: from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic ... and all points in between:theband: .... this thread is about "remembering"; so, I remember, vaguely, riding a horse into the bar at the Paris Hotel in Mankota Sask., (pop. 387):eek: I got tossed out on my ass, but the horse stayed in the bar and drank a few gallons of beer. Only in Canada, eh; love this country:mosher:

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Taking about a horse drinking in a pub, I worked with a guy at Shopfitters called Doug (can't remember his last name) challenged a Thwaites dray horse to a drinking bout, think it was in the (or outside) the Britannia on Nuttall Street in the early 70s, problem is can't remember who won:rolleyes::D

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the name of the chap was Dougie Mitchell ex miner i to worked with him at
shop fitters and drank many a pint with him
he challenged the dray horse to adrinking session in the pop club
dougie warmed up first with a few quick pints
alas came the time for the challenge it was a case of
you can lead a horse to water ..or beer.. but you cant make it drink

only one winner Big Dougie..sadly no loger with us

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Thanks for that beechy couldn't remember Dougies last name, the reason I said the Britannia, is I think he used to go in there sometimes. Didn't know he was no longer here

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Well just read through all of this thread and Mr Vandome stood out, always a well dressed Headmaster. Fred Atkinson used to be the Engineer at the Mill just up coal pit lane, his daughter was Jean ??. Anyone remember St Mary's Youth Club Dance on Havelock Street on a Saturday Night or it may have been Fridays. When a gang came over from Blackburn all with hob nail boots on with words like " Death" etc painted on the toe caps. If I remember correctly every one legged it quick like.
Fishy Flynn used to park his fish truck in the big shed in Mrs Gillions back garden the truck was a Blue Thames if I remember correctly, and Mrs Gillion was a great strawberry grower!!

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St Mart's Youth Club Dance on Havelock St.:confused: where on Havelock Street, there was never any sort of dance hall on Havelock Street. St Mary's Youth Club was held on a Thursday night In St. Mary's School on Moscow Mill Street, until transferring to the Perish Centre on Lock Street in the sixties. The only time I remember trouble with gangs was in the days of the Empire Dance Hall at the bottom end of Union Road

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Lock Street well I was near!!!
St Mary's youth club held in the hall/gym and then to Lock street about 1963. I remember the Empire as well even when it was a picture house those Brown velvet curtains with a couple of gold bands across the bottom????

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Still can't remember any fights though Rycroft, I went to the youth club from being twelve till they packed it in around Christmas 1964, those who attended just weren't into that fisticuffs

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It wasn't a fight we all ran away. They came in an old tranny van from Blackburn the end of the teddy boy era !!!

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Keith Topham now lives in Langho, Kate, Stayed at there place when I was over a coulple of years ago, they took me to Billington Band club on a Saturday night it was a great night, first time been in there, for 40 yrs.

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Don't remember that at all Rycroft, must have been on the one night I missed:D

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I remember Mr Birtles and son Malcolm at Ellison Fold Garage behind The Forts Arms. I lived in Grange Street at the time and Daniel Street and Moor Street and lots of other side streets were cobbled in those days.

The other name for the cobble stones is "sets" and they are using some now to place around the renovated Peel memorial on the top of the Coppice in Accy. It was nice to see so many people at the commemorative ceremony on 26th September. Maybe the pathwork renovation there will encourage more people (other than us regular dog-walkers) to enjoy the varied countryside of the Coppice.

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Slight change of direction. Does anyone remember G & M builders (I think that was the name) back in the 70's when all the grant work was being done.