Monkey steps

Atarah · 30-01-2004, 09:49

Suppose quite a few of you dont know where these are? Still used today, if you are a brave person! Its a short cut from Manchester Road to the top of Adelaide Street, so if you were going to the college, you could use this route, but .... you have to be a brave person in this day and age!

This view is taken looking down towards Manchester Road. You can vaguely make out North Lancs Training Building, which of course used to be The Tramway Public House.

janet · 30-01-2004, 12:54

I did'nt know they were there. Next time i go to oak hill park i will have a wander up.

Tealeaf · 30-01-2004, 12:58

It looks like a nice place to make a TV advertisement for chocolate.

janet · 30-01-2004, 13:11

I know i'm going to regret asking this but, WHY? T.

Tealeaf · 30-01-2004, 13:44

It just does. Look at how many TV adverts you see on Telly where there's usually a young bloke chasing a young lass up some steps just like in our piccy above. usually set in Italy....it can be adverising anything from chocolate to cars. There's usually a church in the background, maybe a few priests & a few old dears.

Why can't we have the same advert shot in Accy? (Other than the fact we're pulling all the Church's down to build Mosques)

janet · 30-01-2004, 14:54

Carefull tealeaf, remember what happened to killroy? lol.

Tealeaf · 30-01-2004, 15:19

He's been here?

janet · 30-01-2004, 15:37

O'h my word T! what are we going to do with you?

Atarah · 30-01-2004, 15:46

This is the view you will recognize Janet. If you were on the side of the Hargreaves Arms Pub, and was about to turn to where the Ambulance Station is, thats where you will find them.

Tealeaf · 30-01-2004, 16:01

Can you imagine staggering out of the Hargreaves after 10 pints or so & trying to get up them steps.....no wonder they put the ambulance station nearby!

janet · 30-01-2004, 16:10

Atarah, is that near the row of elevated houses?

Ernie · 30-01-2004, 16:52

Do they still call them "The Monkey Steps"?, well after all this time it seems that the old place hasn't changed that much. I used to live in Adelaide Street as a kid and we used to play in the monkey steps but I haven't been up there for at least 40 years. I wonder if anyone has any memories about that area in the 60s, if you have then you will probably know me, Everyone called me Ernest then, I hated it.

Atarah · 30-01-2004, 23:10

Hi Janet, yes, after the Hargreaves Arms public house, you then pass the elevated row called Bank Terrace (built 1834), the oldest elevated terrace in Accrington. Then you will find the steps!

Atarah · 30-01-2004, 23:12

Hi Ernie, I have always been told that one of the houses in Adelaide Street, about half way up, was haunted. Ever heard any stories about it?

Ernie · 31-01-2004, 08:59

I lived at number 14 which was my Grandma's house with my Mum, Dad, and Grandma and I cannot say that I have heard anything about a haunted house on the street, maybe it was a story that has started since I left in 1964.