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Forum: Introduce Yourself 05-11-2021, 08:37
Replies: 16
Views: 17
Posted By Frank T
Re: Hello Accrington

Thanks for the info Cashy, take care.
Forum: Introduce Yourself 02-11-2021, 14:44
Replies: 16
Views: 17
Posted By Frank T
Re: Hello Accrington

Hi Cashy sorry for long delay in replying. In your last message you mentioned people who frequented the Derby you mentioned Kathleen Jackson, was/is she married to Brian Jackson? was her maiden name...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 27-08-2021, 11:07
Replies: 730
Views: 80,354
Posted By Frank T
Re: ACCY POP GROUPS 1960s

Thanks for the quick reply Olly, I knew Paul when he lived in Chapel St with his Gran, he worked at Thwaites as a delivery man. The names from the Derby bring back many happy memories. Ian I was told...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 26-08-2021, 16:02
Replies: 730
Views: 80,354
Posted By Frank T
Re: ACCY POP GROUPS 1960s

Cashy, if you see Paul again give him by best. (If he can remember me Frank Toner)
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 11-06-2020, 08:15
Replies: 4
Views: 607
Posted By Frank T
Re: Angela Douglas

Hi Doug when I lived in Fern Gore I was friends with two Douglas brothers who had a sister born about 58/59. The younger brother Paul was the head mechanic at A.C.T. depot. this was in late 1988. ...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 10-06-2020, 11:10
Replies: 4
Views: 607
Posted By Frank T
Re: Angela Douglas

Did she have two brothers ? and live at 18 Rimmington Avenue, Fern Gore ? If it`s the same family the elder brother joined the merchant navy in the 60`s and the younger brother Paul I last saw in...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 10-06-2020, 09:54
Replies: 9
Views: 1,540
Posted By Frank T
Re: Lost Aaron's

I knew a Melville Aaron in the mid 60`s, we were on a business studies day release course at Accy college. He was working at H.&B. at the time and had a red Bond three wheeler that he drove quite...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-06-2020, 17:19
Replies: 6
Views: 1,211
Posted By Frank T
Re: Mary Doreen Bannister (nee Pilkington, nee Malone)

Hi BaaBaa, Herman Pilkington was one of my mothers brothers I was page boy at their wedding. Doreen had a sister Mary who was a nursing sister at Accrington Victoria hospital. Doreen and Herman had...
Forum: Questions and Answers 11-05-2020, 15:46
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Frank T
Re: Old local expressions

I`ve heard it referred to in reference to Spanish bullfighting.
Forum: Heritage and History 09-05-2020, 17:22
Replies: 29
Views: 3,186
Posted By Frank T
Re: Changing face of Abbey Street

Shops I remember on Abbey St a chippy Marsdens? next to a bank or building society, an electricians (can`t remember the name but one of my mates was courting the younger daughter) George Taylor...
Forum: Heritage and History 09-05-2020, 16:57
Replies: 19
Views: 1,856
Posted By Frank T
Re: Battlefields

As a child at school I was told that a brief skirmish took place somewhere in the region of the pub across the road from the entrance to Accy cemetery and that a building in that vicinity still bore...
Forum: Heritage and History 09-05-2020, 16:31
Replies: 25
Views: 1,735
Posted By Frank T
Re: The Pleck?

A lot of the cattle and sheep taken down Sandy Lane came from farms up Sandy Lane, I used to help my uncle and farmer Philip Flanagan drive the animals down to the abbatoir I can`t remember the name...
Forum: Accy Photos 08-05-2020, 09:33
Replies: 21
Views: 3,509
Posted By Frank T
Re: Hippodrome

I remember going to the Hippodrome as a child to see several pantomimes in the early 50s. The last time I was in there was 1987 when we went in for a quick visit to see how the local bus fleet was...
Forum: General Chat 23-10-2019, 09:19
Replies: 7
Views: 230
Posted By Frank T
Re: Remember the Holocaust

In the various schools I attended I really can`t recall being taught about the concentration camps we (the Brits) set up in sunny South Africa for those nasty Boers. We were not taught about it...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 13-10-2019, 18:25
Replies: 18
Views: 611
Posted By Frank T
Re: Family History/Accrington/Pitt St area

I lived at number 78 Higher Pitt St. until I was five we were next door but one to the Common Lodging House. There was a small street across the road that led up to the back yards of Elephant St....
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 13-10-2019, 13:38
Replies: 8
Views: 1,276
Posted By Frank T
Re: William C. Birtwell

I remember Bill, he was a book keeper at Whittakers, he walked to work every day with his little dog which spent the day under his desk. He had regular visits from an elderly lady he called his...
Forum: DVD/TV/Film Discussion 12-10-2019, 17:24
Replies: 15
Views: 16
Posted By Frank T
Thumbs down TV/Film complaint

Am I the only person to get really, really, really annoyed by TV programmes and films being ruined (for me) by background music drowning out speech.
Forum: Questions and Answers 12-10-2019, 16:39
Replies: 17
Views: 18
Posted By Frank T
Re: Really Really Old Stuff - Any Help Appreciated

Hi SteveB47, I`ve just found your enquiry, in the early 1960s there was a Jack Cornwall at Holy Family school he lived somewhere off Willows Lane, I last saw him about 1969 in the Willow Mount WMC...
Forum: Heritage and History 07-10-2019, 17:39
Replies: 38
Views: 4,481
Posted By Frank T
Re: coach house, ascot way (broad oak fold)

In the early 1950`s I used to visit the cottages quite regularly. The end cottage on the left was the home of the Flanagan family. I believe they went to Australia. I don't know if it was true but I...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-10-2019, 17:12
Replies: 4
Views: 5
Posted By Frank T
Re: Old Accrington

Thank you exile. FT
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-10-2019, 13:19
Replies: 4
Views: 5
Posted By Frank T
Exclamation Old Accrington

Could anyone tell me if Leamings/Leemings Pad (path) is still there? It used to run from Sandy Lane to the top of Plantation St, with a derelict white painted farm about half way
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-10-2019, 17:22
Replies: 34
Views: 4,212
Posted By Frank T
Re: MR ADRIAN SHURMER, author of "Shurmer's Official Guide of Hyndburn".

Adrian certainly was in the Lancs.Police, I knew him when he was at Accrington and at H.Q. Driving school. Last I heard of him, he was teaching some of the Man.Utd. team in defensive driving.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-10-2019, 17:12
Replies: 6
Views: 7
Posted By Frank T
Re: Jim Bowen

I had the pleasure of meeting Jim on a number of occasions, my mate Peter Rimmer was his driver, I swapped shifts a number of times so Peter would be free. A very funny man with no airs and graces...
Forum: General Chat 28-09-2019, 17:54
Replies: 28
Views: 29
Posted By Frank T
Re: Where are all the people

The changes I have seen on the odd visit (weddings/funerals)remind me that Accrington is going down the gurgler. I prefer to stay away and remember Accy as it was in the 50/60s. If you blame the...
Forum: Heritage and History 28-09-2019, 17:30
Replies: 41
Views: 2,206
Posted By Frank T
Re: Yards in Accrington.

Ta muchly Atarah I always knew I was right, I remember the paper shop but I didn`t know the name, across the road was there a chip shop? I remember half way on Wellington St. was a grocers shop (I...
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