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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
And so much easier if it doesn't have a familiar name which people like to ridicule? I'm sick of the number of times I hear people say "Accrington Stanley - who are they? Exactly!"
It's about time the local residents stopped referring to the River Stink. Wouldn't it be good if our river was made a feature of the town as was suggested in a certain document not long ago? (Wonder where they got the idea from?)
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Throughout my childhood40s 50s the colour of the river Hyndburn was governed by the dye being used at the print works, the smell was obnoxious and the banks strewn with household rubbish. If you fell in and got a mouth full it could be fatal, it was very dangerous as the banks were all clay and the river was mostly ubculverted and open to the elements. Most of the town centre is now culverted. The Stink it is and the River Stink it will remain in my memory.