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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
It strikes me that since the early seventies, those who had the get up and go, increasingly got up and went, decamping to nice places in the Ribble Valley and elsewhere. Where the air was clean, the houses reassuringly expensive and where the hoi-polloi and immigrants were hardly ever seen.
If you are looking for one reason above all others for the decline in the borough, it is that...
White Flight.
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They sure did A-B, it started in the 60s i recall, when the market n town were quite busy, fer me there are a few reasons fer the flight, certainly nowt to do wi the sex industry in any way, unless yeh include the Market Superintendent back then,who made gadaffi look like andy pandy, i recall in the mid 60s traders talking about doin one through him, never took much notice back then, cos i was a worker not a stallholder, various councils have also cocked up big time oer the years, so fer me whats happened has been a slow strangulation of a good little centre. i seem to recall also a Topless Pub on Abbey St in later years think twas Late 80s? never entered it so aint too sure of when, from what i recall hearing,it did ok at first (Novelty Value) but didn't really last that long, sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong, remember thinking at the time though accy aint so hot, the people aint so daft either, n thats what i strongly suspect will happen wi this lastet venture.
