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Originally Posted by Atarah
Bit of local history here that is interesting. Are you sitting comfortably?????
ACCRINGTON BARRACKS.
1989). This disturbance resulted in a number of the soldiers concerned being sentenced to be flogged.
This sentence was carried out in the barracks yard in Union Street, in the presence of the whole garrison - a revolting spectacle long remembered by people who witnessed it from the Barracks wall, while the cries of those being lashed could be heard about Union Street.
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I suppose this is where the rot set in. These days of course, people running up and down Union Street with bayonets offering to skewer anyone in sight would just end up with an ASBO; we had 'do gooders' then and we've got 'em now (especially on Accy Web).