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No matter what the terms of the will were, art isn't definitive.

If Tracey Emin's crusty, unmade bed is 'art', then anything can be.

Duchamp exhibited a urinal as art in 1917.

Create a musuem exhibition up at the Haworth, call it sculpture, and voila! Art.

:D

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I do believe that the old Commercial Hotel in Accy would make an excellent museum & gallery, given it's central location. I'm reliably informed that the building is currently being used as a licenced greasy spoon cafe, so it would be no great loss in that role.

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Digressing slightly, but am off shortly to Manc Museum. I have just checked, on line, re the opening hours, and found this interesting page. If you look at DOWNLOADS, Acquisitions, it just shows how interested folk still are in Museums - when we get ours in Accrington, these are the type of items folk MAY donate.

Collections | About the collections | Recent acquisitions | MOSI

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sad to say when I ask where I could buy some Accrington Pals stuff,I was told in the town hall "we don't sell that kind of stuff here" neither could they send me anywhere that would.

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It comes as a surprise to me that the Tourism Office in the Town Hall doesn't sell Pals stuff. I wonder if USAngel has spoken with the right people. Haworth Art Gallery? The Library? Has Ann Parkin finally closed her shop at the bottom of Burnley Rd?

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Hi Bob, yep Ann Parkins shop is no longer.

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Did you find out any more about Mr Greenwood? I've got three James Greenwoods from Todmorden in my family tree.