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Forum: Accy Photos 21-12-2015, 22:18
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1156848]Can I ask....? What has happened to Davemacs wet wanderings?
I have missed his pictures very much...and I am sure there are others who have too.
Davemac has been...
Forum: Accy Photos 10-05-2014, 18:59
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Posted By Retlaw
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You are cruel You, mekin puer dog suffer like thad
Forum: Accy Photos 20-04-2014, 21:04
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Posted By Retlaw
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Aye an I know thi Mam as well, how is she these days.
Forum: Accy Photos 20-04-2014, 18:40
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Posted By Retlaw
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:hidewall: No Comment.:tongueout:hidewall:
Forum: Accy Photos 10-03-2014, 23:08
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Posted By Retlaw
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Shoe Mill Pit wasn't really a pit as such, it was a drift mine.
Forum: Accy Photos 10-03-2014, 23:03
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

So you were a Mantle Squeezer. We had a few of them in the retained unit at Accrington.
Forum: Accy Photos 01-03-2014, 21:16
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

No 6 looks like a cross between a doormat & a dishrag.;););)
Forum: Accy Photos 25-02-2014, 21:27
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Posted By Retlaw
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Some of face aches flowera intut garden, not liking wet gussets & knees like Dave, I just bent over a bit and guessed where they were, then pressed the go button. Don't ask me what they are, haven't...
Forum: Accy Photos 13-02-2014, 23:47
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

1871 Census he is living at 14 Anglesea [sic] St, age 21 Store Keeper. His parents are in Lancs. B.M.D
Forum: Accy Photos 29-01-2014, 15:35
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Posted By Retlaw
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That grave is for Harry Broadley. Able Seaman V226160. Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, died 1-11-1944, son of Hedley & Maria Broadley of Ontario, Canada, nephew of Mrs R. Clark of Church,...
Forum: Accy Photos 29-01-2014, 13:59
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Posted By Retlaw
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Many Australians, Canadians & New Zealanders are buried in this country. Firstly because they were born in this country and have relatives here who wanted them buried here, secondly very few of those...
Forum: Accy Photos 28-01-2014, 23:25
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Posted By Retlaw
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Edward was the son of the late Edward & Ann Burton of 30 Rock Mount. He emigrated to Canada before the war, he enlisted on Dec 3rd 1914, he gave his next of kin as his mother Ann. The name could...
Forum: Accy Photos 28-01-2014, 23:09
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

Edward Arnold Burton has no known grave his name is on the Meni Gate Memorial, Ypres. Zillebeke is not far from Wypers. There are many grave stones in the local cemeteries with similar inscriptions...
Forum: Accy Photos 05-12-2013, 23:46
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Posted By Retlaw
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The christmas market was shut up early because of the weather, they were getting a right battering from the gusts, and there were no customers, some of the stall holders had gone to a lot of trouble...
Forum: Accy Photos 28-11-2013, 20:52
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Posted By Retlaw
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Fancy name for them idiots as watch bird, the feathered kind.
Forum: Accy Photos 07-11-2013, 23:01
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Posted By Retlaw
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Them white ball thingy's are rader domes originally to track russian missiles during the cold war. I think they are still in operation.
Forum: Accy Photos 26-10-2013, 19:09
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Posted By Retlaw
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Photo No. 2. Is that the Accy Web clique, or that mob from the Railway.
Forum: Accy Photos 31-08-2013, 20:45
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

Now that would be telling.
Young Richard might have been under age when he enlisted, but he was of military age when he got to France.
Did you know his older brother John Thomas also served in...
Forum: Accy Photos 31-08-2013, 17:59
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Posted By Retlaw
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Richard Dobson.
Pte. 1402 10th Lincolns.
Son of Richard and Cecily Dobson 54 Cliffe St, Gt Harwood.
Age 19. K.I.A. July 1st 1916 during the battle of the Somme.
Thiepval Memorial, France
Forum: Accy Photos 19-08-2013, 14:26
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Posted By Retlaw
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Just spent an hour in the library searching thro old records & maps of the area around Victoria Street & Ormerod St, the first Mill was Scaitcliffe Mill at the bottom of Ormerod St, they built the...
Forum: Accy Photos 17-08-2013, 22:33
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Posted By Retlaw
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Before HBC took over that building at the bottom of Ormerod St, which the upper floor became Bullough's Drawing office, it was refered to as Bullough's Lodge, but Bullough's didn't own it. The fact...
Forum: Accy Photos 17-08-2013, 22:17
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

[QUOTE=davemac;1071821]Today in Pictures. A day when it was difficult to keep your powder dry, thought I would check out the mosaics that Cashman mentioned some time ago as I hadn't seen them....
Forum: Accy Photos 16-08-2013, 22:10
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

Why does every body call it Platts Lodge, that lodge was there long before Platts were even heard of, it was used by all the mills on the factory bottom. Bulloughs was connected to it at on time for...
Forum: Accy Photos 19-07-2013, 23:00
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Posted By Retlaw
Re: Today in pictures

No.10. I used to refer to it as Bomb Weed, in 1944 I saw the devastation caused by jerry bombng raids on Manchester & Salford, where ever bombs had dropped that stuff was growing in the ruins.
Where...
Forum: Accy Photos 06-07-2013, 11:24
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Posted By Retlaw
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No not built it yet, but I dd spend a lot of time in Accy Library, reading the Chetham Soc; books, and I can remember a lot of what I read. The Cunliffes came from the Whalley Area a place called...
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