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anyway....:enough:

can someone tell me where the nearest pill boxes are to us, I have tried many times to try and find some local sites, but they seem mainly to been built down south .

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Your making it very plain to every one that your name is both feet, every time you open your gob you put both feet in it, who the hell do you think you are Adolf Hitler, only your opinion counts,

Best thing for you is to try your local slaughter house, they must have plenty of brains lying around which would work better than the one you already have.

Even better would be a sheep brain, then you would be able to baa all day.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Retlaw.

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There are a couple over Salmesbury way but they're on private land I think so access may not be possible. There's one near Turton and another between Rochdale and Heywood. There's also a couple near Nelson and Brierfield but dunno where exactly.

Try this site UK Pillbox, Pillboxes, Bunkers, Anti-tank traps and other Anti-Invasion Defences built in World War 2

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More adult:confused: with your first post on the subject shows you've got to come a long way to attain that yourself, my advice is stick to sites near Portsmouth they'll probable suit the uncouthed manner you have used to a well respected gentleman on OUR site :thefinger:thefinger:thefinger

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Has anyone got any info on how the name "coppice" or "the coppice" came about?

I realise that on the face of it that sounds like a stupid question, but hear me out :) The word coppice normally refers to a managed wooded area - however, I was reading something the other day that suggested the name was in use well before the current lot of trees were planted.

A place called Coppice without any trees seems very odd, or am I missing something? Can anyone shed any light on this?

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Was discussed in the last few pages of this thread.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ice-59646.html

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Crikey that does make me feel old. I can remember calling it the Coppice long before those trees were planted.

But then you're only a slip of a lad, Pudwoppa, you wouldn't remember that far back... ;)

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There is no mention of a Coppice in early documents, this is one from the Coucher book of Kirkstall Abbey, its one of the oldest relating to Accrington, dated 1190, several names are still in use today. The boundary's are very close to the present day Accrington
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Looks interesting, have you got a translation?

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Ask the council Steve,they renamed us Hyndburn.......seems they couldn't even spell it right.:D;)

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They can't spell Huncoyte reight aythur.
Its Huncote not Huncoat. Who ever spelt it as Huncoat wants gelding.
As for Hindeburn thats self explanitory
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Just a bunch of stuff about Robert de Laci and his old lady, Isobel. with conventional comments about God and Real Estate ... it's only Latin ... maybe medieval clerical Latin, which would explain some of the weird constructions that would have got me in trouble in Latin class if I had come up with them.;) My Latin is a little rusty ... and right now I don't have the time to come up with a coherent translation, even though documents like this tend to be pretty formulaic.

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The link to Roy's Huncoat site makes for interesting reading. The mention of photographs in 1848 of the coppice seems very early... may have to enquire about those. I thought photography was very rare in the area at this point (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong :) ).

The earlier date of the name and the material I was reading make sense together if the area was used for coppicing earlier than the twentieth century - that's what I was looking for - thanks. The population boom at that time could explain why it disappeared.

Tis true; my childhood was spent playing 'manhunt' and building dens in those trees. Glad it wasn't bare slopes to be honest - 'run up and down the hill' as a game would have worn thin with me I think :)

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By the 1840's photography wasn't uncommon.

We've got family portrait photographs dating from that decade.

It is rarer to have landscape photographs from that period.

I've no doubt the details on the site are correct, they usually are, especially dating the photograph to a specific year.

I'd love to see it.

Has anyone on here seen it, or knows where it is?

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Your right about the latin bit Eric, there are some 4 or 5 documents relating to Accrington in the Coucher Book of Kirkstall, when I was translating them, I couldn't find some of the words in any latin dictionary, met a high ranking Catholic, who said some of the words were church Latin, usually found in ancient Roman Catholic Church documents, he interpreted those words for me.
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