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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Paradise Street?..that was, well, paradise compared to the dingy and depressing thoroughfare known as Canning Street. Factories at each end, including one which towered over the whole place like a gargantuan beast, down-at-heel, cramped-looking houses, the whole place was enveloped in an eternal gloom even in the height of summer. Definitely the most depressing street in Accy of its time.
PS - apologies to any former residents who may be reading this!
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Think what most people tend to forget is that Accrington streets evolved in the time of the Industrial Revolution, and these houses were gratefully welcomed by the workers being so near their workplaces.
Now we have no textile manufacturing anymore, we are left with this structure and have a harder job than non industrial towns to bring the streets to just being pleasant residential streets. Takes time and money from the council, etc.