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Originally Posted by Gayle
I suppose there is method in the madness. Accrington means 'ring of oak' and presumably all the original oaks have long gone so they perhaps have a plan to reinstate a ring of oaks around the town.
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Good idea considering the relevance of Oak trees to Accrington, but Broadway is hardly ringing the town centre.
Oak trees are one of our most beautiful native trees, but I don't think trees that drop their leaves as well as shade vast areas when full grown, are the right choice for a town's main thoroughfare.
Banging my same old drum..... this afternoon I was stood on Broadway and have decided that the shabby blue and white Town Hall extension and shops is not only the ugliest, shabbiest municipal building in Britain, it's thw worst I've ever seen anywhere in the world.