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Originally Posted by g jones
Accrington has an indoor and outdoor market which people identify strongly with. It may have been a mill town but those days are long gone.
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If they do they have long memories, are easily pleased or are showing a loyalty not really deserved. I suspect you're a victim of your own propaganda. As an ex Councillor and current MP you must accept some responsibility for the current and recent state of the town.
Of course it's still a mill town, an industrial town. That's the only history it has, the housing and the public buildings and many of it's people reflect that even though the mills have gone.
Why try to put it's history behind you? Be proud of it and use it.
Even if you lifted it and stuck it in the middle of the Ribble Valley it would still be a mill town. Chorley had some mills but was always a market town because of the huge rural area it covered.
The people running Accrington have for many years shown a lack of vision, foresight and forward planning.
I'm sad when I visit and see what the town I grew up in and loved has been allowed to decay into- you, Graham, and the others who have run it all these years must take the blame.