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Originally Posted by Tesco Rambler
Yes, its a little bit funny but when you are young you might look at Accrington from the perspective of a music-hall joke. But once you are a little bit grown and probably away from home you just might be able to see Accrington more clearly.
I tell you it quite a unique place. Take a little walk up the Coppice and tell me what you see. You will see a marvelous vista which is I think unparalleled: from the distant and misty Baxenden, right across the hills to Darwen Tower, beyond to Blackburn, the valley where Whalley resides, Pendle Hill in all its sombre glory to way over the heights beyond Burnley and closer to home Hambledon Hill. And guess what? Accrington is such a green and pleasant place: from your vantage point on the the little monument on the Coppice you will see all around you the greenery of thousands and thousands of trees. I doubt there is such a view anywhere else in the UK as you will see there in Accrington. And I say that as someone who has traveled widely. Accrington, easy to mock, hard to get out of your blood.
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Think Accy must be unique in many ways not to mention Stanley, which is renown world wide. Just a slight wander, years ago I was working in the Pall Mall club in Coventry and a chap came up to me and said think you lot must come from Lancashire with your accents, I just said ya Accrington, he just said I was born in Ossy on Busk Meadow Street, it turned out he sat next to my mother at school.