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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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In 1965 I had booked an holiday in October that year, I started at Shopfitters about 3 weeks before the Wakes Weeks, when Shopfitters closed for the fortnight, so they honored my holiday commitments and I went in doing factory maintenance for the fortnight. It was very eerie walking up Union Road to work, it was like a ghost town with only the old person collecting their newspaper from a lad on the Town Hall steps