Favorite Memories of Accrington

[Soulee]

Many thanks to Accy Lass for the prompt, what is your favorite part of Accy and surrounding area???

Mine is sitting on the Peel Monument atop the coppice and looking over the town.

Also playing army on the coppice and jumping in and out the trenches.

That was nearly 30 years ago now, how time flies.

What's your best memory??

[Mancie]

Fav places I miss?.. the Bees Knees.. the Pickwick in the afternoons..Canine..Bold st club..Hope n Anchor.. Cock n Bull... and the off licence on Marsden street.

[panther]

mine has to be going on a bender round accy, when ALL the pubs where open even lar de dars, oh the fun memories

[Soulee]

Lar De Dars, God that takes me back.

Bees Knee's too, has it still got the big bee over the door outside??

[AccyLass]

You did it

My favourite place in Accy has to be the area I live now (Laneside)

So many nice people, we walk out of the door and before we even get to the shop
we have spoken to about 5 people, it's great

I don't suppose it's just round here, but I do like it

[jaysay]

My best memories of Accy (I haven't been out in town for years) was the Bridge Inn when Dave and Sue Johnson had it (Sues the present Mayoress) Used to go in most lunch times and few nights playing pool

[beechy]

playing darts for the Queens pub when carl and julie
ran it in the early eighties

[MargaretR]

Playing tennis in Rhyddings Park every day in school summer holidays.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Soulee

Bees Knee's too, has it still got the big bee over the door outside??

Last time I saw that bee it was on the wall outside of Ossy Mills, down the side towards the back. It looked a bit dowdy too. I think they had to take it down from the pub as it didn't have planning permission or had been objected to or something.

My favourite memory is the play park at the bottom of the Coppice when it had a really long, high slide and a plank and an umbrella and a roundabout and a horse...........

[steeljack]

the old Accy baths when I was a youngster

[panther]

The parades on a sunday when i was a kid marching through ossy and the big drums..lol

[Margaret Pilkington]

going to the old Accy baths.....coming out with hair dripping wet and going to the chippy across the road for a bag of chips if we had enough money or a bag of scraps if we were skint.
Spending the long (mostly sunny days) of the summer holidays in Bullough Park,,,,,buying a penny hovis loaf and a halfpenny spanish....making a drink of spanish water in a medicine bottle (glass) to take to the park so that I didn't have to come home for something to eat and drink.
Playing in the brook in Priestley clough........catching indeterminate fish and keeping them in Jam jars.

The 'pop' man coming on a Friday, drinking Stantons Dandelion and burdock out of a huge stone bottle...that or sarsaparilla.
Happy days...alas, now long gone.

[flashy]

spending endless hours in the Grey horse when i was in my teens and just making a nuisance of myself

[WillowTheWhisp]

Oooh I'd forgotten the pop man and those big stone bottles.

I used to make spanish water too. Just been talking about things like this with my American cousin.

[emzy]

Going to Rhyddings park during the summer holiday to some form of holiday club......... seems like an eternity ago but am sure it wasnt that long ago