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Like most towns of the era Accrington was clean and virtually litter free mez. But we didn’t have cans of pop for a start only bottles and you got tuppence of threepence back for the empties. Chewing gum wasn’t just chucked to the ground either although there wasn’t much money around for sweets and things so that helped too.
Wow! K.S.H. That’s a neat bit of colouring and not by numbers either. I don’t mind what you do with my photos just as long as you don’t claim them to be your own.
Before they built the sunken garden the whole area was boarded off to hide the River Hyndburn and it was bricked over (with Nori brick of course) presumably to prevent the smell from emanating into town. The river saw the light of day at Bull Bridge and flowed on its merry way towards Church, or maybe it was coming the other way. I can’t remember.
Er! Wingy. There were no trees on the Coppice when that picture was taken apart from the odd one. That eagle was just a patch of land without grass. Erosion I guess! I suppose that is why trees have been planted on the slope to help prevent erosion. I mean you wouldn’t want The Coppice to come trundling down Avenue Parade would you?
You are almost right tealeaf but you forgot to take into account that it was May and the sun wasn’t at its highest so shadows even at midday would be longish. If you mess around in something like Paint Shop Pro you can make out Walter Smith on the side of the van quite clearly and just about make out the time on the clock. According to the clock the time was 1.11pm and the pictures were all taken within an hour or so.
The pictures were taken one sunny afternoon in May ’57 but it wasn’t a Saturday. If it had been a Saturday teenagers would have been on The Deck and not men and I wouldn’t have been taking pictures. I wasn’t at school or work because I was on leave from the navy and all my mates would have been at work so I had little to do except wander around taking a few pictures. They were the last three on the roll too and that is why there were no more.
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