[Doug]

[QUOTE=Tinkerbelle]Whilst trauling the sewers of the internet i came accross these poems. Whilst there is an element of truth in them i felt an enormous wave of defensiveness wash over me!!!

It’s a sad reflection of how not only HBC but also the people of Accrington have let slip a once distinguished and proud town. These poems are date 1998, yet I’ve read the same expressions of distain on this web site in the last 12 months. I must admit I haven’t witnessed to much disorder when I’ve been back, but I have seen mess all over the streets and the town centre (even after being pass by a lass with a street cleaning machine). Accrington was never a pretty town, at best; it was dark and grim during my childhood but the architectural devastation of her industrial pride that has taken place over the last 20 or 30 years is criminal. It’s not only HBC that needs to get a grip of itself its us an all.