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Old 26-02-2007, 22:54   #76
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Ken Dodd opened the arndale
LOL! God I remember that
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Old 26-02-2007, 22:54   #77
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lol mel...great minds
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Old 26-02-2007, 22:54   #78
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I remeber Worzel Gummidge at the carnival and Rod Hull and emu!
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Old 26-02-2007, 22:57   #79
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Ken Dodd opened the arndale
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Old 26-02-2007, 22:57   #80
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lol mel...great minds
Lets keep this thread to facts
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tut sad dave really sad
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:01   #83
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'They' will shift it to you know where lets keep it serious Ken tax dodging Dod indeed!
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:04   #84
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I don't remember those
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:06   #85
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Can anyone else remember Worzel Gummidge heading the Accrington Carnival procession? I distinctly remember that as he was one of my favourite characters on TV at the time. Have we had any more famous people in the carnivals?
I took photos that day and he came and stuck his nose right in the lens of my camera and said "Whyfor you keeps stickin that there camry up my nose? If'n you can sticks your camry up my nose I's'll sticks my nose up your camry so I will."

He rode a "motortrycyclette" in the carnival procession and up to the field up Sandy Lane.
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:08   #86
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Stuart Hall opened a shop on Broadway. I think it was a TV rental shop. Where the pound shop is now at the Union St end.
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:14   #87
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I took photos that day and he came and stuck his nose right in the lens of my camera and said "Whyfor you keeps stickin that there camry up my nose? If'n you can sticks your camry up my nose I's'll sticks my nose up your camry so I will."

OMG!! ..... brilliant!! You had that down to a tee, willow I can actually picture him saying it with how you've worded it
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Old 26-02-2007, 23:31   #88
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i have memories of the farmhands, with the dogs driving the cattle and sheep down Maudsley Street on the way to the slaughterhouse from when i was a sprog,never did know were they had come from??? also remember on Whalley RD to the left across from Marshalls music was a wonderful little Polish Grocers with allsorts of very strange foods the guy who ran it was a really nice fellow who me mate knew, and he was always givin us titbits of this strange stuff to taste, God only knows what a young cashy consumed but loved it nevertheless, happy days.
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Do you mean these Margaret Pilkington?
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i remember the queen coming to accy ....i was sat on the flags watching her big black shiny car go through church on blackburn rd
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