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Old 19-07-2004, 17:47   #48
WillowTheWhisp
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Re: What’s good about Accrington/Hyndburn, what makes you proud?

To get back to the subject of the thread. Sometimes it's easier to be critical of the place where we live not because we dislike it but because we are proud of it and want it to be at its best so that visitors will see and like what they see. I'm not very good at putting this into words so I hope you can understand what I mean.

There isn't much left of anything to make Accrington distinctive which is a shame. That doesn't make it a bad place to live but it does make it difficult to think of anything specific to post in this thread. I find myself thinking of things I wish we still had.

We've got a good market, but we once had a better one. The Tiffany glass collection is special (as has already been said) and the fact that things like the Spinning Jenny were invented locally. The surrounding countryside is attractive to look at and on a par with the view from the Coppice is the view towards the Coppice from Bullough Park.

I moved to Accrington at the age of 4 and have lived here more or less ever since. Perhaps Mez is the ideal person to have something to say in this thread because she says she moved back here by choice because she likes it.
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