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Bob Dobson · 09-01-2009, 20:12

A few mistakes have been brought to my attention in this book, published late November. I admit them, and mention them here before somebody else does.
Firstly: the photo (p32) of the Birtwell's icecream cart was taken in Garden Street, not Ramsbottom St. The detective who spotted this knows that the houses in Haywood Rd have different windows further up the row.
next: (page 36) the text refres to the town's 100,000 population. This is clearly way too high, although it just could be that it was swelled to 100,000 on that day when Lord baden-Powell came to open the Ambulance Drill Hall.

There's another that I am enquiring about. If you've seen the book, please do not hesitate to question me. I will likely blame Geoff Taylor, the co-author.

I don't feel embarassed about these mistakes, though I did feel it badly when I wrote my first book. In this (c1979) I placed the position of the Big Lamp in Union Road, Ossie ( above which one born can claim to be a true Gobbin) outside the Palladium instead of the Library. My dad's words as I walked in the houses expecting to be praised ..."Tha's bloody well let me deawn" He had received some ribbing off his mates in the Bridge pub, Church. ..."If he's getten that wrong, heaw many more mistakes is there in t'book ?"

09-01-2009, 20:12	#30
Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Re: Accrington Acclaimed - new book A few mistakes have been brought to my attention in this book, published late November. I admit them, and mention them here before somebody else does. Firstly: the photo (p32) of the Birtwell's icecream cart was taken in Garden Street, not Ramsbottom St. The detective who spotted this knows that the houses in Haywood Rd have different windows further up the row. next: (page 36) the text refres to the town's 100,000 population. This is clearly way too high, although it just could be that it was swelled to 100,000 on that day when Lord baden-Powell came to open the Ambulance Drill Hall. There's another that I am enquiring about. If you've seen the book, please do not hesitate to question me. I will likely blame Geoff Taylor, the co-author. I don't feel embarassed about these mistakes, though I did feel it badly when I wrote my first book. In this (c1979) I placed the position of the Big Lamp in Union Road, Ossie ( above which one born can claim to be a true Gobbin) outside the Palladium instead of the Library. My dad's words as I walked in the houses expecting to be praised ..."Tha's bloody well let me deawn" He had received some ribbing off his mates in the Bridge pub, Church. ..."If he's getten that wrong, heaw many more mistakes is there in t'book ?"