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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Do you remember what it was like if you didn't go away in the Wakes Weeks?
Accrington was absolutely dead, all the shops shut, all businesses closed, nobody about.
I'm not sure if even the buses stopped running.
You really felt left out of it at home those weeks.
But Dad always tipped a bucket full of sand in the back yard for me to play in.
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Remember it well. One year we didnt go nowhere so Tony Boardman and Malcolm Taylor and me Biked to Lythan St Annes for the day. Cant believe that we did it. Played in the sand dune,s and hiding and singing Cliff Richards, A Voice in the Wilderness. Biking back and stopped in Preston to knock on a door to ask for a drink of water. We were only kids and Accy was still dead when we got back.