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[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

It's always been a mystery to me, that the postal address is Accrington as I knew Rising Bridge was in Rossendale, thanks for satisfying my curiosity.

Rising Bridge's Postal Address was always Accrington even before i was born.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Lilly

I have been told that the 'welcome to' signs are replaced regularly and are due to be replaced this year anyway,if the name wasn't being changed there would still have been new signs made bearing the old name so there will not be extra cost.

I think you've been misinformed, and if the borough's signs are changed as regularly as a tramp's underwear, as you suggest, that just shows how financially bankrupt our council is. But they aren't regularly changed for no reason. Fact.


Sorry to burst your bubble Wynonie, but twenty years spent mostly in London, and no one has any idea where Accrington is. Mind you most of them don't know where Lancashire is either.

Perhaps Lancashire County Council should rebrand it's self, to something new, and more parochial.

How about Preston of the Guild and District County Council?

[Wynonie Harris]

You're not bursting my bubble in the slightest, Gary. I, too, have spent long periods working away from the North and I'm well aware that most folk have no more idea of where Accrington is (apart from the fact that it's somewhere "up North") than they have about the location of any other small town outside their locality. I was just pointing out that Accrington has got the all-important recognition factor way above the level that most small towns enjoy and that the council should use that recognition to its best advantage!

[WillowTheWhisp]

So in future when people ask PB where he lives is he going to say "Accrington disctrict"?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

So in future when people ask PB where he lives is he going to say "Accrington disctrict"?

Of course not, he'll say Oswaldtwistle.

It's only when he's asked what he does, he becomes flustered, and has to mention the 'H' word.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'm sure this could be a plot for a TV sit-com. It would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculously wasteful.

[garinda]

I've started a thread before, about visiting friends of mine, and their reaction to Accrington.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...age-23398.html

Milly from Milan/London had never heard of Accrington. My two Scottish friends had heard of it, and were expecting some chav town dump, and were pleasantly suprised.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I meet quite a lot of people who come here for the first time and most of them have never heard of Accrington. The first impressions are usually favourable ones, especially from people who come from more arid regions as they remark on all the greenery. One girl from a particularly flat region of the USA who saw the Coppice for the first time cried out "Oh gee! A mountain!"

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I meet quite a lot of people who come here for the first time and most of them have never heard of Accrington.

If they're from overseas, maybe, but my experience is that there are very few people in the UK who have not heard of Accrington, quite unusual really for a town of its size; I think that this is a very valuable asset to the borough and one that should be exploited to its fullest extent.

[WillowTheWhisp]

a weird thing happened there!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Yes some people within the UK do tend to have heard the name Accrington although certainly not all. Those who have usually follow it up with "Accrington Stanley, who are they?" in a Liverpool accent and make a joke of it. Trying to tell them something positive about Stanley often falls on deaf ears. I've never met anyone outside of the area who has heard of the Accrington Pals, but then again there were other "Pals" and many young lads lost their lives in the Somme. Perhaps the local battalion registers more with those of us who have Accrington connections than it does with anyone else.

As for exploiting the name - how does not changing the title of the council stop us from doing that? People outside the borough still hear about Accrington and have done for the past 30 odd years whilst we've been paying our taxes to HBC.

If we were back in time at the creation of the borough and it was a case of choosing a name because it didn't have one then I think I would plump for a whole new name rather than being named after one of the towns anyway because that way the 'and district' bits are as equal as the main town.

[accymel]

Whenever we went abroad when i was younger, people we came across either in Spain or FLorida knew of Accrington - strangely ..... ask me dad hehehehe

[WillowTheWhisp]

Yep funny that, they always seem to have heard of us in Spain don't they? My Dad used to remark on that too.

[SPUGGIE J]

I sit in a town with a port refinery chemical plants etc and is part of what they call Falkirk Council. It was Falkirk District but they decided to shorten it. Grangemouth is not the big,the refinery and chemical plants come close to matching the residential areas in acreage. In a way I suppose its like Ossy Gt Harwood Rishton Church in the sense that it is dominated by the bigger town to the east and dosnt like it. The signage has big enough letters for the town but Grangemouth because its under Falkirk cannot use its own town crest over its name its always Falkirks.Unlike down there we dont have the chance to change it though we gladley would.

There will be pro n cons, arguments over price, disagreement over the new name yet it will happen one way or the other. In an ideal world each town would keep its own name and a small section saying "Administration area of whatever underneath that way individuality is kept but to keep the peace the admin area is also mentioned.



ACCRINGTON
ADMINISTERED BY HILLSIDE COUNCIL

[Neil]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

Rising Bridge's Postal Address was always Accrington even before i was born.

I was born in Langho which is in the Ribble Valley, its postal address is Blackburn.