Alcohol/Canal

Restless · 29-03-2012, 18:08

I have been known to take a walk up coppice in nice weather(like what we had recently) and maybe I will take a few beers with me-- I always take them up inside a plastic bag inside my rucksack and I always bring them back home again for recycling.

I have been known to take a walk home from work via the canal and in the hot sunny days of summer-- I might get a couple of beers and walk back home with them in the sun.

Some may see this as antisocial behaviour-- Its not something I do all the time. Subjective to personal opinion I suppose.

Has anybody seen the work they have done on the canal? I guess it would be nice to ride a bike along there now. As I have gotten older-- I have grown to appreciate the nicer parts of Accrington. Its a nice walk along canal; skipping the cars, people and houses.

But this what peeed me off the other day-- I took a walk along canal from Clayton to Church as I was going to the doctors at the acorn centre. Whereabouts I leave the canal near Express Gifts-- I spotted a total mess.

Has anybody been this way lately?

I was in wonder how somebody can have so little appreciation(though obviously from what I said above-- I never had it growing up) for the effort made to make the canal tidy.

There must of been around 12-15 empty three litre bottles of cider, a dozen or so empty cans and empty vodka bottles. Has somebody had a big party here? Idiots-- what is wrong with taking the bottles home with you; or putting them in a bin or whatever.

Anybody that is nearby there should take a look-- I am left wondering if somebody at Express Gifts in Church cannot make it through a days work without having a drink or something.

Tealeaf · 29-03-2012, 18:16

Thats the argument for minimum pricing on alcohol.

accyman · 29-03-2012, 18:49

looks like its time to fill in the canal in and destroy the surrounding area so it puts drinkers off

Eric · 29-03-2012, 21:41

Driking by the canal can be dangerous ... someone could get so drunk that he might fall in and sober up

I know; it happened to me about 50 years ago

accyman · 29-03-2012, 23:43

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Originally Posted by Eric

Driking by the canal can be dangerous ... someone could get so drunk that he might fall in and sober up

I know; it happened to me about 50 years ago

luckily back then there would have been a pub or two along the bank for refueling

Eric · 30-03-2012, 01:36

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Originally Posted by accyman

luckily back then there would have been a pub or two along the bank for refueling

This is true. No shortage of them ... ahhh the good old days

Unfortunately they were all closed at that time of nite. And I had empty pockets ... it had come down to a choice between the No. 1 bus home, and six penneth of chips. Chips won out.

Restless · 30-03-2012, 06:24

I guess the albion was good for that

I taken a picture of the mess but I damaged my phone so I just need to get the pic off the memory card sometime

kestrelx · 30-03-2012, 08:10

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Thats the argument for minimum pricing on alcohol.

It's nothing to do with alcohol really - if it's not beer tins or vodka bottles it will be pop bottles and tins. It's peoples lack of respect for their environment, same reason people don't pick up their dogs mess. It's happens all over the country everywhere.

jaysay · 30-03-2012, 08:17

Time to put the benches back in the town centre me thinks

accyman · 30-03-2012, 09:02

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Time to put the benches back in the town centre me thinks

no jaysay the method that works is that if a minority cant be controlled and made to obey the law then everything they like to use is removed so everyone has to go without

jaysay · 30-03-2012, 09:13

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Originally Posted by accyman

no jaysay the method that works is that if a minority cant be controlled and made to obey the law then everything they like to use is removed so everyone has to go without

Sorry forgot the rules have changed

Restless · 30-03-2012, 22:49

well if it is those people; they have had to go quite a bit out of their way to carry on being undesirable

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Time to put the benches back in the town centre me thinks

mobertol · 30-03-2012, 23:18

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Originally Posted by Eric

Driking by the canal can be dangerous ... someone could get so drunk that he might fall in and sober up

I know; it happened to me about 50 years ago

When I was about 10 I remember the canal behind my school in Clayton (St Mary's) swarming with police and we heard that a man's body had beeen found in the water...

Been doing some research this week and it seems there was a plaque commemorating the deaths of 68 men and boys in an accident in 1883 at the pit in Clayton, on the canal bridge nearby - wonder if it's still there?

Some of the boys were only 12, they came from Ossy, Church, Altham, Clayton and Accy...

Eric · 31-03-2012, 07:59

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Originally Posted by mobertol

When I was about 10 I remember the canal behind my school in Clayton (St Mary's) swarming with police and we heard that a man's body had beeen found in the water...

Been doing some research this week and it seems there was a plaque commemorating the deaths of 68 men and boys in an accident in 1883 at the pit in Clayton, on the canal bridge nearby - wonder if it's still there?

Some of the boys were only 12, they came from Ossy, Church, Altham, Clayton and Accy...

Evidently the plaque is still there ... on the Pilkington Bridge (I wonder if that has something to do with Margaret's dental work?

) ... I can't for the life of me remember the Pilkington Bridge ... if it's not the Whalley Rd. bridge, it has to be east of there, towards Burnley.

jaysay · 31-03-2012, 08:17

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Originally Posted by Restless

well if it is those people; they have had to go quite a bit out of their way to carry on being undesirable

Well it was Church wasn't it