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Old 29-08-2013, 19:07   #256
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Pam I will PM you re St John's reunioins.,,....In yoyur long posting, you missed out Booth's bakery shop near the Iron Bridge, and Sagar's bakery on Owen St bottom of Aitken St. I met Margaret Booth, now Wilson(?) at a recent reunion. The time before that, I was snogging her near the Co-op Laundry - or was it Loofe's factory down Owen St back?
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Old 30-08-2013, 09:25   #257
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Margaret wilson....Bob, is she a retired Nurse/Midwife, who used to work on the district?

Only asking because I knew a Margaret Wilson, and wondered if it was the same one.
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Old 30-08-2013, 16:19   #258
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Pam I will PM you re St John's reunioins.,,....In yoyur long posting, you missed out Booth's bakery shop near the Iron Bridge, and Sagar's bakery on Owen St bottom of Aitken St. I met Margaret Booth, now Wilson(?) at a recent reunion. The time before that, I was snogging her near the Co-op Laundry - or was it Loofe's factory down Owen St back?
Did you keep a list of all the girls you either had relationships with or perved at - I can only remember the names of about four (two that I still know), but I do remember that I was busier than that
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Old 27-08-2014, 19:55   #259
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Willies still knocking about Mog, (living down Clayton last time i spoke)
Just been told Willie passed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday. He was knocked down outside Clayton Con (Hit & Run) and quite badly injured.
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Old 28-08-2014, 16:52   #260
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Hi enjoyed your recent post and certainly brought back many happy memories. I was brought up in the area (Devonshire st) and frequented Knowlmere Street, Accy Con, Spring Hill and also Youth Club. I was at St. Mary Magdalens junior school then off to Accy High for a three year stint, hated it so moved school! Happy days.
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Old 30-03-2015, 16:33   #261
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the girls name was anne
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Old 02-04-2015, 14:39   #262
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I grew up in Accrington in the late 1950s and 1960s quite close to where Stanley play their home games now. I can still remember quite a lot of things about that time - so it seems to me. I'll pick out a few: the old NORI brickworks, primary school near Sandy Lane, hearing on the radio or tv The Beatles for the first time (I still love The Beatles even now). The hospital also is nearby where I was in for a few days.
Enfield cricket club... drinking warm orange juice with a straw out of a bottle in summer days at said Enfield cricket club on Dill Hall Lane. Aye.
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Old 10-04-2015, 14:54   #263
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Thanks to Eric and Bob. Bless your cotton socks.
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Old 16-06-2015, 10:47   #264
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Accrington and district - a good place to grow up I think.
Sometimes I miss there being places like Nick o' Pendle nearby. Some hills.
(Or Nicky Pendle as I used to call it - come on I was only about seven years old).
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Old 16-06-2015, 21:03   #265
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I grew up in Accrington in the late 1950s and 1960s quite close to where Stanley play their home games now. I can still remember quite a lot of things about that time - so it seems to me. I'll pick out a few: the old NORI brickworks, primary school near Sandy Lane, hearing on the radio or tv The Beatles for the first time (I still love The Beatles even now). The hospital also is nearby where I was in for a few days.
Enfield cricket club... drinking warm orange juice with a straw out of a bottle in summer days at said Enfield cricket club on Dill Hall Lane. Aye.
Hameldon Mill has gone - houses on the way. Marlborough club is no more. The NORI railway line and engines. No Load of Mischief. No Arcadian ballroom. o flower shop at Queens Rd/Whalley Rd
. No Clock Garage.
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Old 09-07-2015, 17:11   #266
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I am looking for stories and images of The Warriors band for a book project I am doing, can anyone help? I know of the web sites however its untold stories and unseen items I want. Thanks for any help you give me. Please email me with [email protected]
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Old 09-07-2015, 17:39   #267
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Are you by any chance the chappie who had an exhibition up Haworth Art gallery, Accr4ington, a few years back, with a collection of YES memorabilia?
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Old 07-02-2016, 01:25   #268
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I think the Dentist was called Horsfield.
Cheers Littlepom
Indeed. The dentist WAS Stanley Horsfield. His son Nigel is a retired chest physician in the Blackburn area
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Old 07-02-2016, 17:43   #269
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Just read through all this thread and found it very interesting. I remember calling in a shop on right hand side of Dowry Street, think it was on a corner, on my way down from the High School to the station for the train home. Iced finger buns were a favourite and I think it was the first place I ever bought a cream egg. Who's shop would it be?
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Old 08-09-2016, 22:49   #270
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Nice memories Sue. I grew up in Westwood Street. I am 3 years younger than you, but was also at Whalley Road Congregational Youth Club when I heard about JFK. My sister Jean went to the High School, but she is a couple of years older than you. Everitts also had a shop at the bottom of Malt Street before they moved to the old Thornbers shop. You didn't mention Matt Taylor's shop (great iced lollies) before they moved to the opposite corner of Westwood St and Eccles Street, later became SPAR I think.
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