Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 994627)

Thanks for that Dave I love looking at pics and these are brill. :)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 994628)

Dave you should be producing tourist information Brochures........you make Clayton look like a place worth visiting......it looks positively beautiful.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 994621)

Its accepted locally that its the Con club on Whalley Road, below it bottom, above top. I will however accept other reasons for locations.

Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall (Post 994701)

I always thought it was the canal bridge/ con club but whichever way you look at it I was brought up as a bottom ender.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 994724)

I take wiki wi a pinch o salt, anybody can put owt on yon susie.;)

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 994714)

Wikipedia has

Clayton-le-Moors is said to be a town of halves. Residents were 'top-ender' or 'bottom-ender', depending on which side of the Load O'Mischief pub, now demolished to make way for the M65 motorway. The two had firm opinions about each other and rarely mixed There was, however, an annual football match between each at the running track at Wilson's Playing Fields.

The reference given is

Destination Guide to Lancashire - Towns & Villages

but I can find no mention of the subject there. Mind you that site also has a picture of the Market Hall which is labelled as the Town Hal lso I don't know how reliable it is.