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staggeringman 20-05-2005 00:38

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iron brew. thats all your getting.

lindsay ormerod 20-05-2005 08:43

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Not much to go on there Staggers;although irn bru do have an interesting orange fizzy website as i just discovered!

harwood red 20-05-2005 12:39

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:eek: WERE YOU IN THE ADVERT ON THE PITCH BY ANY CHANCE?????

Sparkologist 20-05-2005 13:48

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Originally Posted by staggeringman
iron brew. thats all your getting.

What kind of ...'kin post is that, Staggers? You been mixing yours with vodka by any chance? :rolleyes: :D

Doug 20-05-2005 13:52

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There's a link to Accrinton Stanley in a past Irn brew advert, but I'll be buggered if I can remember it?

staggeringman 20-05-2005 17:10

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iron brew? brewed by girders in scotland........bul.....t it was actually invented and produced in accrington! so there you go...he...he


somewhere up burnley road its a garage now!

Doug 20-05-2005 17:51

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By hell, your right sir. Was it not somewhere around Burnley Road?

staggeringman 20-05-2005 18:13

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the spinning jenny are is that........classed as ossy?

Bazf 20-05-2005 19:16

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Stocks pop the best around not just Iron Bru but American Cream Soda.:)

cashman 20-05-2005 20:50

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Originally Posted by staggeringman
iron brew? brewed by girders in scotland........bul.....t it was actually invented and produced in accrington! so there you go...he...he


somewhere up burnley road its a garage now!

think the firm was STANTONS staggers,they were up burnley rd just past the old stanley ground opposite side of road,they also made great flagons of sarsperilla,@dandelion an burdock,which certain young vagabonds used to nick off the wagons heee,hee.

staggeringman 21-05-2005 01:21

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Originally Posted by Bazf
Stocks pop the best around not just Iron Bru but American Cream Soda.:)

did this lot not move to china street? i can remember comming down back alley and having a few swigs of the owd black stuff!

shiny gem 21-05-2005 15:13

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i dont care what you say...you cant swig tar!!! lmao

staggeringman 25-05-2005 00:31

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Originally Posted by shiny gem
i dont care what you say...you cant swig tar!!! lmao

yooo shiney gem dont want to be ignorant but what the ........beep is imao?

K.S.H 25-05-2005 04:53

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Its Lmao not imao, short for laughing my a*se off

staggeringman 25-05-2005 16:23

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Originally Posted by K.S.H
Its Lmao not imao, short for laughing my a*se off

:o cheers for that K.S.H it was a bit late when i put it on ...lol

Ber999T 17-08-2005 18:46

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let us not forget a Sir Robert Peel came from this area!!!

baby boo 17-08-2005 19:21

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and the not forgotten accrington pals! :)

Ber999T 17-08-2005 19:32

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well said baby boo

staggeringman 18-08-2005 01:24

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good lass at least not forgot, what about the STANLEY?

cashman 24-08-2005 00:30

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know this much most people that came into the bar in spain when they found out where we were from they always followed our were from accrington with= stanley,and it didnt matter much where they were from, so as far as i,m concerned accy is famous.

jpest1 24-08-2005 00:59

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Didnt Stockleys sweets start on Cotton St Accy?
I remember them being there as a kid, before they moved to the old school in church

staggeringman 24-08-2005 01:28

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Originally Posted by jpest1
Didnt Stockleys sweets start on Cotton St Accy?
I remember them being there as a kid, before they moved to the old school in church

no they where on a different street than that ? it will come but just not yet!

jpest1 24-08-2005 01:46

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Originally Posted by staggeringman
no they where on a different street than that ? it will come but just not yet!

Staggers. just checked street finder on ntl. Cotton st between Wellington st ond Belfield rd. I lived on napier st parallel to cotton. Where the road bends is end of cotton start of belfield. Used to be a sweet shop right in corner. omg am I that old? :D

And Why Not 04-09-2005 20:31

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Accrington Stanley was in the milk advert. with Kenny Dalgleish

And Why Not 04-09-2005 20:42

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Also Polly James (liver birds) was Ossy,
Boris Karloff (Huncoat) think he was William Pratt
and of course David Lloyd (eng cricket captain
oh yes & Jon Anderson (Yes lead singer)

staggeringman 05-09-2005 14:51

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How come accy nori has not been mentioned yet? (or as it) the most solid brick in the world.

WillowTheWhisp 05-09-2005 15:23

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I'm feeling a sense of deja vu.

BTW that shop on the bend top of Church St has been empty for donkeys ages and it's a crying shame.

staggeringman 05-09-2005 17:35

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nice building on blackburn road made out of accy rustic brick,The brick used had to be specially ordered then made the building is approx 1920 ish so not very old can you guess what and where it is?

staggeringman 06-09-2005 16:59

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did you know? the empire state buildings foundations are made from accy nori? thats why king kong couldnt smash it up ......lol :D

And Why Not 07-09-2005 06:38

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No I didnt , is that a fact then?

WillowTheWhisp 07-09-2005 06:59

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I can't think of a brick building on Blackburn Rd. Is it in Accy or Church?

staggeringman 07-09-2005 15:27

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here we go willow !decieving from the front but under that its all accy rustic as on the side of the building.


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