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Has Anything Changed In Ossy ?
I Left Ossy For Aussie In 1981 And Have Not Yet Been Back
What Changes Would I Find If I Came Back [home] |
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Most of the pubs have shut
A few small housing estates where industries used to be. |
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yeh mate Rindys moved back home, stay in Aus.:D;)
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A few buildings have gone!
South aussie, if ya want to see, vist.. Life and times of Oswaldtwistle pictures galore of ossy..;) im sure there are some recent pics on there for ya!:D |
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I think the biggest noticable change is the number of cars on the road.
I passed my driving test the year after you left, and estimate the number of cars has gone up ten-fold. Twenty five years ago you may have saw a couple of cars parked on each street, now it's bumper to bumper. I left in 1983 and returned in 2004. To me it seems cleaner. Much of the muck from chimneys has been cleaned off the stone buildings. Happily the people are still as friendly, and as daft, as ever.:D |
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Ain't been up Union Road for a long time.. but I heard they have stopped burning witches.. ah well times change!
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FUNERAL WILL HAVE TO BE HELD ELSEWHERE |
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A funeral pyre on top of the Coppice would do - all the local chavs could P on it afterwards
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HAS THE COPPICE MOVED TO OSSY PS, WHAT IS A CHAV ?:confused: |
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WHO OR WHAT IS A RINDY:confused: |
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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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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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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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Tell me what you want to know and i will bet i know who you are
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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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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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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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the Ribblesdale coach to Ewood Park Later in years it was it was steak pudding & veg ,a beer or two in the Golden Cross and then off to Ewood Park |
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few new shops opened at top end of Union Rd this year Bargains 4U / Hair Spray /printing shop/ Grafix --bringing lot of customers to Union Rd
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You should come for holiday and stay with Johnny and Elsie and i bet you would get lost there are so many changes here nothing is the same as when you left and you could meet your old friends that you had you know who i am so we will leave it at that .
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A few more [shop keeper characters come to mind] JIM TAYLOR at the PROVIN SHOP BOB CAMPBELL at the WET FISH SHOP The three barbers [not tenors] PETER LANCASTER BILL SWIFT DERICK WYNN ? BILLY BIRCH,S hardware [opposite Jims pie shop] |
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How about Moonies the wool shop at the end of Badge Brow. The bottom COOP between Moscow Mill St. and Collier St. Had a great bonfire on Collier St the year it closed. Freemans hardware opposit Town Hall And all the pubs.
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[quote=bondi38;641950]You should come for holiday and stay with Johnny and Elsie
:confused::confused:Johnie and Elsie :confused::confused: Surname wouldnt begin with G by any chance would it ? |
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The two buildings (eyesores) by the Church traffic lights have just been demolished. I remember going to the Council Offices (which used to be next door) in the 1950's for an interview for my first job as a library assistant - got it, too!:)
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Just the commercial to sort out now |
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There is no Fire Station anymore, it closed down in 2003 and is now a Tesco Express.
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Bee's on the ball again I see..........................:D
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No I think he took the "how to be annoying" class instead John. :D
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The trees in the nature reserve have new leaves.
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Take a good look at the beautiful trees on the car park opposite St. Paul's school, because I've heard that some or all of them are being chopped down to make room for more cars - and I'm blazing mad about it!
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(a) More. ( b) A rowan. Get the picture? :D |
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That'd be a stupid thing to do. Where did you hear it? I can't even see how chopping the trees down would give anymore car spaces. |
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Leave all that stuff to old hippy builders. ;) |
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Its still the same not much has change.
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I might have to disagree with you on that point. We took a tour of Ossy on Google street view,and from what we saw a lot has changed since we left for Australia nearly 30 years ago. |
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:D |
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lmao x
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There is no nursing home Peel Court, it has now been demolished.
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There is no nursing home Peel Court, it has now been demolished:hehetable.
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thank you Michael Caine |
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thinking about change in ossy, Dr Jekell now lives there.:rolleyes:
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No I meant what month did he return in 2004.
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