Favorite Memories of Accrington

[flashy]

my favourite memory of accy is...Milnshaw Park when i was ickle, my gran and grandad taking a picnic, flask, sandwiches and for some reason we always had fresh tomatos with a special salt celler lol

my grandad always told me that the chicken and the frog bouncy rides in Milnshaw Park where put there by him especially for us lol the strange thing was, i believed it for years

ah those where the days

now i love coming over from Blackburn and going to Milnshaw Park with Reece and my nieces and telling them stories about how the park used to be when i was small

[cashman]

Milnshaw was a great park back in the day, many a happy hour spent in the large paddling pool.

[magpie]

Oak Hill park used to have a large paddling pool..... ( no way they could have one of thoes now a days )

[MargaretR]

Rhyddings Park had one too but it was already a derelict muddy puddle in the 1940s

[flashy]

Originally Posted by cashman

Milnshaw was a great park back in the day, many a happy hour spent in the large paddling pool.

i remember the cut out of a pool being there, but i never remember it being used as a pool

[jaysay]

My cousin lived in Park Road when we were little, early teens, and we used to got to Milnshaw Park up Owd Bobs to play Tennis during the summer hols, used to hang out in Gatty Park and Nelsons Square too

[Caz]

Paddling pool in use (milnshaw) must have gone by the early sixties, coz we lived up Lancaster avenue when I was 7-10 and don't remember it being there.

Do remember being on my first 3 wheeler and the brakes failing, and going straight from top entrance down that path to the bottom, and coming a cropper. It seemed soo steep back then, lol.

Used to play on Nelson's frequently, when living on Bradshaw St. (not West). Always on my bike on there. Also the triangle with the swings, which was great in winter for making slides in the ice down the paths.

[cashman]

do ya remember the gypsies on nelson square caz? musta been mid-late 60s, they put me n me mate up, when thrown out of "Red Annies"

[Caz]

Yes Cashy, well I remember some in the early sixties, was still at junior school so must have been before 65. Don't remember there being a problem with them though. Some of the kids went to my then school, St Andrews.

[flashy]

where was Nelson Square?

[cashman]

roughly between end of emma street n sports centre flashy.

[flashy]

ah ok, cheers cashy

[Taggy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I went out with the son of the landlord of The Junction.......I was only thirteen at the time......and 'going out' meant just walking to school holding hands.
I think the relationship(if you could call it that) lasted for all of 6 weeks.

Would that be Rod Pitman by any chance? or even his Brother Dave? I know their Mum and Dad ran the Junction for a while whilst i was at school!

Best Regards - Taggy

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

do ya remember the gypsies on nelson square caz? musta been mid-late 60s, they put me n me mate up, when thrown out of "Red Annies"

Red Annie's cashy who the hell was that sounds interesting was she Apache or Sioux

[flashy]

lol maybe she was called Annie and she had red hair Jay??