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Hello, iv read on previous threads about an air raid shelter on Rileys hill. Iv always lived in that area and am fascinated by this. Could someone tell me were it actually was, thanks

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well.....thanks for your help (said in a sarcastic manner)....is this information classified under the M.O.D official secrets act, or is it that im not part of the older generation type of clique on here that delight in putting other people correct. Iv read this forum for years now and as an amateur historian fascinated by local history delight in hearing about Accringtons history so i thank you for that....Anyway, were was this bleeding air raid shelter, i cant wait to tell my mates in the pub about it as local history is a subject we regularly discuss haha. Thankyou, GROOVE

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Probably no-one that knows has read it yet,:rolleyes: yeh just shot yerself in the foot i reckon.

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Well i apologise for that and hope it doesnt deter any replys...got up on wrong side of bed. Sorry guys, was said in jest really but came out wrong

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Use the search option from the headers & you'll find this,

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...r+raid+shelter

well at least it's a start. :)

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Cheers Dave, interesting thread that but still no info on the Rileys hill one...sure someone will know in time...thanks again

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...h-47540-5.html

gdm27 knows.

But doesn't give an exact location.

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Or there's also this.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ecoy+airfields

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In my opinion, Riley's Hill is near the junction of Nuttall St & Bath St, at the back of what was Highams' Woodnook Mill. Riley St is at the top of the hill. It is likely so called because the Riley family owned land there, at the very edge of Royd's land which covered most of Woodnook. Near to this site - I don;'t know exactly where the shelter was -is a triangular piece of land between Bath St, Nuttall St & Marsden St which was called 'The Flat Iron'

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Is this the hill that has 2 paths running across it? The first running from the bottom of Marsden St, across the lower part of the hill to the bottom of the allotments. The second running from the rear of Marsden St, up to the houses and back onto the dirt track further up?

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yep thats were it is, though don't know about the shelter, theres a member that was born up yon, so if she sees this, she should know.:)

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Cheers cashman, thought I remembered the name of the place, same here never heard of a shelter there. I hope gdm27 sees this also.

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bit of a wander .. but remember (being an Arroder) there used to be an Air Raid shelter /Pill-box on the Arrod side of the Cock Bridge ( River Calder/Hyndburn) opposite the Game Cock pub until the 60s ... maybe they thought the NAZI invasion of Hyndburn/Greater Accrington would be from Whalley/Clitheroe :D :D :D

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I am that member........way back in the distant past I do remember hearing it discussed.....and I think my brothers made a concerted effort to find it.
I was never allowed on these seach sorties.......they knew I would tell Ma and they would get their bottoms warmed if they did find it and went in.
So, yes....it was supposed to be there, but we never found it. I think the lads got bored with the fruitless search.
I will seek confirmation when I next speak to Ma.

Thanks Cashy for pointing me in the direction of this thread.

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Thanks everyone for your replys...it was GDM27's post that first alerted me to this so hopefully he will come on and see this thread...thanks again

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Yes, thats were i think it is Bob, though we also called the black path that came down from Bullough park to Perth.st Rileys hill, but then again it is the same hill really

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Find the thread posted the other day by the metal detecting guy, maybe he can dig up the info you require;)

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Back in the sixties and seventies there were two on Immanuel Cricket field on New Lane Ossy, when I was groundsman there in the late sixties for a couple of seasons we used one as the grounds mans hut, think they were demolished in the nineties if not before

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There was another just off Manchester Road. It was behind the long wall across from Oak Hill Park, between the Park and Broad Oak. Fairly close to 85 Manchester Road. It disappeared sometime in the early to mid 70's

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Note to Moderators ....another screwed up thread , going to the last posted instead of the last post read

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Very helpful:rolleyes:

Go to the thread about these problems, I am sure this is a regular fault, I think jaysay started the thread, asking what was the problem:confused: Search and you probably find the answers;)

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Some times its one individual thread which is at fault, but not for everybody, this particular thread is fine for me, went strait to the last unread post

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Same here, but why tell it on a thread that has nothing to do with the problem, tell the mods that is why we have them;)

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Can't fault that

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It isn't Ask Jeeves.

With answers supplied instantaneously.

Someone will probably know exactly where it was.

Could take a few hours, a few months, or even a few years. But someone's bound to be able to help you.

In the meantime, just sit patiently under the stairs, wearing your gas mask.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/ima...ey-gasmask.gif

:D

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Can remember the air raid shelter situated at the top of Hopwood St.I wouldn't call that Riley's Hill really. Riley's hill to me was at the end of Marsden St where I lived opposite the smoothing iron.
The air raid shelter us kids accessed went around in a circle and was full of fungus's growing.We did guided tours for other curious kids and we kept the off licence on Marsden St richer in funds with all the candles we bought.The fun part was getting halfway around and blowing the candles out to set the girls screaming. Naturally....we had to comfort them.:D
Happy days.....

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Correction........top of Lydia St

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Today I spoke to a chap from Burnley. He has recently seen the minutes of Burnley Council from wartime days. They included a folding map showing the locations of shelters., Perhaps there was one published by Accrington Corporation. I have never seen one in the library but haven't looked in depth at the minutes books.

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I know that this thread is a few years old but you were all talking about the air raid shelter at the end of Perth Street on the path that leads up to Bullough Park. Well in the late fifties, early sixties there was a concrete slab that used to 'Fall off' and you could access the shelter, I was in it many times but never actually circumnavigated it, because we used to scare each other in to believing that someone would come and block the entrance!! I do remember it went in two directions, the right hand passage went a lot further than the left. The council did used to come and regularly cement the concrete slab back in place but quite often it 'fell off' again. Having seen this thread I went up the other day to have a look and it is all overgrown but still there! So if anyone fancies a bit of a dig, i'd certainly be up for it!