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Old 15-02-2011, 20:30   #1
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When I was a kid, my own street and heaps of surrounding streets were all cobbled.Some recent pictures I have seen have my own street all tarmac....I wonder when this change took place and whether there are still any cobbled streets around?
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My street was cobbled and flagged when I were a kid, I think approx 20years ago as I can remember it!

It used to be murder on your bike going up and down!!
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Re: Cobbled streets
Our street is cobbled, the tarmac has only recently been removed, it looks so much better, we live in a conservation area I can't believe they ever put tarmac on it! It's Rhyddings Street in Oswaldtwistle.
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The bottom of Carter St is still cobbled
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I think they are "setts"
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Re: Cobbled streets
Thats correct cobbles are stone washed stones from river for example.
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Re: Cobbled streets
Most are still there, under the tarmac.

You can see them, through the potholes.
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the council tore up the cobbles on my back alley a few years ago and sold them to god knows who.They must have got lots of money for them though if it covered the cost of tearing up a back alley and tarmacing it.
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The bottom of Carter St is still cobbled
I used to go down that steep bit past the Old Band Club on a sledge after it snowed (bloody dangerous with Victoria St at the bottom there) Council used to spoil our fun higher up Carter St by shovelling cinders everywhere....
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When I was a kid, my own street and heaps of surrounding streets were all cobbled.Some recent pictures I have seen have my own street all tarmac....I wonder when this change took place and whether there are still any cobbled streets around?

It was great fun as a kid getting yer magnifying glass out & melting the tar between the stones, well it was until I got home & got shouted at off ma & pa for being filthy ! Thats probably why they got rid of the cobbled streets too many kids getting smacked & shouted at for going home dirty after spending hours melting tar !!
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Most are still there, under the tarmac.

You can see them, through the potholes.
Should be able to see plenty then
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the good thing about cobled streets is that boy racers have to go slow in their lowered corsas etc or their front spoliers get torn off or their oversized rear end exhausts
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the good thing about cobled streets is that boy racers have to go slow in their lowered corsas etc or their front spoliers get torn off or their oversized rear end exhausts
You forgot the word noisy, it would slow them down that would be good
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tThey must have got lots of money for them though if it covered the cost of tearing up a back alley and tarmacing it.
If you have cobbles(or setts) keep an eye on them, yes they're worth a fortune. So are real 'flags', try buying second hand flags. There have been cases of setts and flags dug up and disappeared, even from back yards.
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If you have cobbles(or setts) keep an eye on them, yes they're worth a fortune. So are real 'flags', try buying second hand flags. There have been cases of setts and flags dug up and disappeared, even from back yards.

Right who's coming out with me 2moro digging up the tarmac, sod working!!!
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