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Yes, its a little bit funny but when you are young you might look at Accrington from the perspective of a music-hall joke. But once you are a little bit grown and probably away from home you just might be able to see Accrington more clearly.
I tell you it quite a unique place. Take a little walk up the Coppice and tell me what you see. You will see a marvelous vista which is I think unparalled: from the distant and misty Baxenden, right across the hills to Darwen Tower, beyond to Blackburn, the valley where Whalley resides, Pendle Hill in all its sombre glory to way over the heights beyond Burnley and closer to home Hamledon Hill. And guess what? Accrington is such a green and pleasant place: from your vantage point on the the little monument on the Coppice you will see all around you the greenery of thousands and thousands of trees. I doubt there is such a view anywhere else in the UK as you will see there in Accrinton. And I say that as someone who has traveled widely. Accrington, easy to mock, hard to get out of your blood.

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Think Accy must be unique in many ways not to mention Stanley, which is renown world wide. Just a slight wander, years ago I was working in the Pall Mall club in Coventry and a chap came up to me and said think you lot must come from Lancashire with your accents, I just said ya Accrington, he just said I was born in Ossy on Busk Meadow Street, it turned out he sat next to my mother at school.

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Years ago, sometime in the '70 I think, I was wandering around London taking in the sights and lo and behold out of the millions and millions that reside there up pops a lad I used to know at Accrington and Rossendale College. To name drop, he was a successful actor having got a plum role in Brookside.
And then more recently, I was wandering near the Houses of Parliament looking for a suitable cellar (only joking Guy) when up pops a Russian woman who happened to be on holiday and she was my ex-wife's best friend. What a small world it really is.

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Darwen Tower has a great view on clear days. Can see Yorkshire from up there.

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And that's a recommendation is it? :D

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Now here is a story for you.
Sometime in the '70s when the powers that be didin't quite know what to do with all these things which cost money to upkeep, it was mooted that Darwen Tower might be demolished or possibly sold (remember London Bridge had already been sold to the Yanks). Now in the time-honored tradition of the mischief of Grammar School boys me and B.A. (unfair to name him, let's protect the guilty, but I bet he knows who he is) came up with a plan. Why not offer to buy Darwen Tower in the name of a Yank: Hiram B. Lanski to be precise - a fictitious Texan oil magnate I believe. How to do it and make it seem genuine? My devious mind hatched a plan: write the letter to Lanski giving a return address of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph (after all it had regularly reported the problems the council had in the upkeep of the tower) put the sealed envelope in another envelope addressed to the postmaster of a Texan town with a covering letter buttering him up with our love of American stamps and requesting him to post it back to us. Worked like a charm and the next thing we knew we had a front page (I think) article about this fictitious oil millionaire wishing to save Darwen Tower. Of course nothin was ever herd of it again and somehow me and BA kept schtum. This is the first time I have ever revealed this scam. Doubters can check this in the Telegraph archives. I left school in 72 or 73 and we hatched the plot in Geography lessons so I guess the possible time span covers about 1971 to 1972.
You see, papers, especially local papers are not filled with the brainiest reporters and in fact what they tend to do is follow the nationals: if there is a big riot in London, they look for a small riot in Abbey street: if a helecopter crashes south of the Thames they look for a balsa wood kid's plane that smashed a window on Blackburn Road - you get the picture. Darwen Tower, Texas, oil and a millionaire was too much for them.

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'write the letter to Lanski' should be
write the letter FROM Lanski (purporting to be from Lanski)

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Only 2 things wrong with that statement... Darwen and Yorkshire :D

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And maybe the road to Lancashire

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Regarding post 6, you are good at hatching plans. So when did you dream up the plan for the Tesco "job"?

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Not all plans which are hatched are good. In any clutch there tends to be at least one addled egg.:z-block:

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Hey don't put the egg down, you may be addled, it could still be fresh, P.M. me with your next master-plan, I could do with a few years of the luxury your enjoying.

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Now let me see: beans on toast on Monday; beans on toast on Tuesday; beans on toast on Wednesday...come to think of it, beans on toast on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then a special treat on Sunday - toast dipped in baked bean juice. The veritable 'high life' indeed.:Banane47:
Best to keep away from me on the following Monday!

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Are they Heinz, or Tescos own brand.

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Blazing Saddles --Farting Cowboys- Greatest Fart Scene of All Time - YouTube

Kinda like this, eh.;)

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What for?

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because of this

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I think gdm27 was referring to the fact, Why would anyone want to see Yorkshire.:D;)

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To remind us how grateful we should be because we don't live there.

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The only good thing out of Yorkshire is the road to Lances or if your a cricket lover Joe Root too:D

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Don't know where Lance lives Jaysay ;) but anything out of Kelham Island is spot on too. :D

Kelham Brewery | our beers

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Ya Mr. D. looks like a special dispensation in this case:D

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What you want a case ????? I'll get you a couple of bottles of Pale Rider cos' you mayn't like it. :)

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I would imagine that won't be true its beer isn't it:D there are no bad beers some are better than others but they're all okay and palatable:D

Accrington Itself
 

Not true, when I was a student the landlord of our digs decided to do some home brew, announcing to us that there would be a party when it was ready.
For some reason the date he had thought it would be ready passed without comment, we asked what was happening?
He told us the stuff was still fermenting for some reason.
A week later, he put his concoction into a barrel saying it will be ready within 48 hours.
We went into his living room with freshly stolen pint glasses at the appointed time, (I did mention we were students, never gave a thought to buying a glass).

He didn't exactly pour the beer as much as it exploded from the cask, lively wasn't the word for it!
We tasted one of the most sweet brews known to man, the amount of Unbrewed sugar stuck our lips together, we did risk skin and forced our mouths apart downing a substance almost the thickness of gravy.
3 pints and an hour later everyone was rolling on the floor, God it was strong!
On the 4th pint some of us noticed that as well as the room spinning those that had claimed a need for relieving themselves hadn't returned, there was definitely a thinning of the crowd.
By the 5th pint, those of us that had managed to find our way back from our ablutions were finding the barrel to be slowing down, we tilted it at the suggestion of our hero that had provided this magnificent brew and filled our glasses with the remaining sludge after all he said, it's healthy and provides roughage.
I don't remember much after that how I got to bed I have no recollection, but there I remained for three days as did everyone else.
On recovering enough to get up we asked what our generous host had made.
He informed us that, rather than make a weak brew...

He had halved the amount of water and doubled the amount of sugar and other ingredients.
So my dear Jaysay I can honestly tell you there are bad brews, even if they are drinkable!

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As I said Less its drinkable :mosher:

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Drinkable isn't the same as good.
The definition of a coarse drinker is:-
When visiting a friend that only has cooking sherry on offer, after emptying the glass, the guest exclaims, "God, that was awful!", as he holds the glass out for a refill.
I'm proud to say, I'M A COARSE DRINKER.

;)

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Can't disagree, just a shame that a really good beer although its aftertaste is still on the tip of your tongue the following day, the name escapes you.

:(

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yup Less amnesia is linked exponentionally to volume with most decent ales. ;)

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Ya I shouldn't have had that last pint of er um ah was it spotted dog!!! :D

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Any free beer is good beer! :thankya:

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anything is better then American beer

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And some of that doesn't deserve the name - tried "Lone Star" one night and my Son asked what he had done to upset me - tried a second mouthful because I couldn't believe how bad the first one tasted, then I was convinced.:D

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Taking two tastes to make your mind up seems to say your getting old mate:D:D

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Thought that meself, 1 gobfull n i know if i like summat or not.:eek:

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I needed the second taste to confirm that it was gnat's P and didn't warrant the name "beer" - it was allegedly brewed in Texas, very similar lack of taste to Coor's:rolleyes:

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Gotta disagree USA ...Some good "craft beers" now available all over the US.
One import Dogfish Head especially some of their brews will blow your socks off.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales | Off-centered stuff for off-centered people

:D

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Well if its out like Pale Rider its sure too:D:mosher:

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On the subject of blowing your socks off Jay.....
I have acquired a couple of bottles of Meantime India Pale Ale weighing in at a healthy 7.4%
Brewed in Greenwich U.K. (Meantime geddit?)
Will report back later ;)

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Hell Dave 7.4% not sure you'll be able to report back after a few of those mate:D

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Not a problem fer n owd Tech lad.;)

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Gonna have some help Ol sampling it as if I need any ;) Frank and Linda West coming down here to the Llyn today for a weeks R & R
:D