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To learn about chavs read this thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ean-41396.html

The coppice is still in Accy but we are integrated by the collective term 'Hyndburn'.
That is also a thorny issue - threads about that are too numerous to mention

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Good question, Rindi is a nice sort of a chap that lives in Ossy having returned from the smoke a few years ago. to find out more why not read his blog;)

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His blog isn't readable because he wants it that way.
He is Garinda - one of the original members of this forum who amuses us with his excellent wit.
Sadly he is having health problems and doesn't post as often as he did

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Accy Web was already up and running when I joined about four years ago.

When I first started going to the meets, some of the original members used to hark back to the good old days, when the site was apparently more fun.

When pushed, in answer to my question as to why it was more fun, the answer was you weren't here.:eek::p

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:D:D

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Tell me what you want to know and i will bet i know who you are

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May be we can start a WHO REMEMBERS for Ossy

Not much seems to be happening at the moment.

So who remembers the old shops in Union road

Number one

JIM & REX STEPHENSON,S pie shop , on the corner of Cross street &Union road

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Stivies 8-a-loose potato pie can still taste it. The fish shop just further down, the cobblers (Pilkngtons) Down the bottom end Riley's herbalists, Nellie Barns Green Grocers, Makinsons Toffeee shop, Louy Parks Furniture Store, Lockwoods bakers, hows that for a start:D

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used to love " Waltons" loose spud pie shop etc, goin up hill on left across from the "Bay Horse" had cafe in the back n jim was a real character.;)

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Mary's sweet shop......on the corner of the block where Moorend chippy is.

It's a barber shop now.

The shop was always really dark. We used to pop in for 2oz of sweets after visiting the dentist on the next block. :D

This was when I was a child in the 1980s

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My family's baker's shop is still were it's been since 1945, one block up from the old Co-op.

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My mum and dad told me about that!, they said it was the best pie shop in ossy, before my time though:rolleyes:

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ME TOO!!:alright:

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You can't buy petrol in Ossy anymore - the last petrol station opposite Ossy Mills closed a couple of years ago. That one used to be my granddads years ago, as did the one next to the Black Dog and the Red Cap garage.

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I knew Jim very well, infact was in the next bed to Jim in hospital just before he died. Remember him, every friday night, going in the taproom at the Stop and Rest in Ossy (in the sixties) with his basket full of pies, used to sell um to the lads, dominos and cheese and onion pies, washed down with a pint of bitter went down well in those days