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Forum: General Chat 07-08-2004, 09:25

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Hi y'all. Strewth, nothing happens for weeks and then you go away for a couple of days and you miss all the fun! I read the article on the front page of the Observer with great relish this...

Forum: General Chat 04-08-2004, 15:23

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Good work, Kipax. Though I cannot say that I am at all surprised by HBC's snotty secretary and lack of response. They seem to regard us plebs as something of an inconvenience. When this thread was...

Forum: General Chat 24-07-2004, 05:26

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock >>Library is out of the question. Supposed to be quiet places.<< Have you been in the library lately? It is more like a meeting place for the Fishwives and Mill Girls Social Club, than a place of...

Forum: General Chat 23-07-2004, 04:37

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Well done Kipax. Thinking about the problem of where to site the clock, there are not many possible venues where public access and supervision can be guaranteed. Here is my list; Accrington Library(I...

Forum: General Chat 15-07-2004, 17:26

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Ohh go on then, I'll let you have that one Willow. :)

Forum: General Chat 15-07-2004, 17:15

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock It is, as I recall, a single span arch that allows the railway to cross Blackburn Road.

Forum: General Chat 15-07-2004, 17:06

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock viaduct n. 1 a long bridgelike structure, esp. a series of arches, carrying a road or railway across a valley or dip in the ground. 2 such a road or railway. [based on Latin via 'way'] Oxford...

Forum: General Chat 15-07-2004, 16:06

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock If you are talking about 'Five Arches' mate, it's gone! Demolished about ten years ago. I know that there is a viaduct across Blackburn Road just before you get to West End and there is another to...

Forum: General Chat 15-07-2004, 05:11

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock There is also one in Burnley which is almost identical. And I believe that there is also one in Whalley, but that is red brick. In any case, all of them pale by comparison with the Ribblehead Viaduct.

Forum: General Chat 14-07-2004, 21:11

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Hyndburn as a tourist destination is, I think one of Mr. Rix's pet projects. He seems to be of the opinion that all we need is a couple of nice hotels and a restaurant or two and the tourists will...

Forum: General Chat 14-07-2004, 17:58

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock If the council are serious about encouraging tourism then there should be a town museum. Cannon St. Baptist church would make a perfect location. It is central, Listed, in a conservation area, and...

Forum: General Chat 13-07-2004, 17:30

Replies: 161 Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Views: 6,685 Posted By Acrylic-bob Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Actually, regarding the Arndale Centre, I seem to remember that a few years ago the council sold it's interest in the building. The figure of £110,000 sticks in my mind for some reason. So I would...

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