unusual facts about Accrington or Oswaldtwistle
 

I would like to know some of the more unusual facts about Accy or Ossy if anyone knows any. You know the stuff that makes you say that you learn something new everyday. So let's see who knows what.

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Am learning something new from Accy web members everyday magily .. that what makes it so good. Hope they can come up with new ones ... wait for it. :D

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You have lodges that no one can live in because they're full of water. people elsewhere live in them not fill them with stagnant water and ducks.

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Oswaldtwistle is larger in square miles than the City of London.

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Oswaldtwistle has half the number of residents than Accrington.
I wonder how much money HBC spend in Oswaldtwistle, I bet it is not 50% of what is spent on Accrington ;)

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the first email sent to accrington was in 1998 but unfortunatly accringtons HBC offices were still running on commodore vic 20's and the reply had to be sent via carrier pigeon :)

accrington holds the world record for a town having its center refurbished

accrington currently holds both records for most charity and cheap shops per square meter

accrington was once twinned with Ahéville but after the residents of Ahéville saw what had become of accrington they respectfully disassociated themselves from the twinning system

if it wasnt for burnley accrington, would have the scummiest town center in lancashire


accringtons football team is more famous for its mentioning in a milk advert than any of its acheivments although you got to admit that advert was pretty catchy :D

since my ex fiance moved to preston accrington has dropped 200 places in the chart of places your most likely to catch a dose of VD :eek:

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It is years since I was last in Accrington, Chav you certainly don't make it sound as though it should be top on my list to visit when I am home later this year. Is it really that bad in the town centre?

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the town center is a loverly place to visit if you like the following

tripping over raised or rocky flagstones

cheap pounland type shops

charity shops

a very smelly outdoor market due to bad planning on where to put the fish stalls in the new outdoor area

and have i mentioned now that the sunshine is out you can be greated by people trying to kid themselves they are a size 8 and have everything that dosnt fit into the size 8 hanging over the sides

saying that we do now have 2 new stylish stainless steel bins that also double up as ashtrays on broadway :D

accy is allright but the town center is a mess :(

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if you are still planning on coming back dont come into accy along blackburn road as british traffic laws dont apply along that area so you could be held up for some time ( aparently green light means apply handbrake and start talking to the driver in the car coming the opposite directions and double yellow lines , zigzags etc mean park here its ok as long as you put your hazzard lights on )

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Is Blackburn town centre any better?

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yes lots better :)

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Yeah i do agree about the town centre scummy shops, lets say there is naff all choice to buy decent stuff here....im sure Argos hold the monopoly on electrical & big household items - thats if they have it in store what they say online they do - dont ask its a peed off story & has made me realise that its a s***hole of crappy choice in fact Burnley least has variety - well least have stuff in stock at their argos - rant over! A waste of a town centre despite the money being wasted on it :(

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Oswaldtwistle is the largest suburb in the country.

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Apparently the population of the whole of Canada is the equivalent of London.

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you cant blame accy for that one though :p

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Accrington has the longest running panopitcon saga in Britain and is currently being kept going on this very forum - Guinness have been notified.

Accrington also has the most profitable Greggs in the country courtesy of the "Accrington dummy" (no not PB) - also known as the sausage roll.

Accrington was voted the Chav capital of Britain this year.

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ah thats not london city, you mean london as a whole, london it self is only a square mile. I'm sure rindy can remember better than me the finer points of it all.

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[quote=Shady McGough]
Accrington also has the most profitable Greggs in the country courtesy of the "Accrington dummy" (no not PB) - also known as the sausage roll.

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be prepared to lose that one lol

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For those of us who are not that smart, inlaymans terms what is a panopitcon saga.

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I didn't find it that bad, it's a great little town. main street is a bit bland, but it's got it's impressive buildings, the councill offices, and a grand market hall with loads of great stall in. Arndale centre is ok for the size of the town. Could do with more interest though, they've got a nice clock, but as I said it's bland, no character. Some nice art sculptures in the town would be good like burnley's.
As for the shops, you wanna try living in a town like ossy that ISN'T a suburb, the nearest town like accy is 6 miles away.
I think accy people dumb it down a bit more than they should to be honest.

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A Panopticon is something that I threatened to take karma off people for if they kept bringing it up in totally unrelated threads.

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It's a saga of a group wanting to build a monument, statue, art sculpture, icon thing on a hill by accy, and the council not wanting them to, and then convincing everyone in accy that they don't want it.
They obviously prefer accy to be Bland, because they've done the same in the town centre.
So thats another fact, the only council that try's to keep it's town bland instead of trying to make it interesting and make it's mark, for future generations and history.

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tut Gayle behave, you can't scare new members like that. It was a valid question.

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It's Shady that I'm talking to - he should know better! Not trying to scare off newbies, thank you for answering her.

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It would take a lot more than that to scare me off. I love this site. A little taste of home for me. I miss the Lancashire folk more than anything else.
Thanks Madhatter for the karma you have all made me feel welcome.

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ohhh I see gayle, sorry, I missed that, I should read posts more carefully.
They're a funny lot the lancashire folk, ain't they magily. I love the accent.
Thats another fact, they answer an answer to a question with a question, usually 'aya not' or 'is it not'
Rumour has it that mez is world lancy champion at doing this.
which leads to a truelly amazing fact mez and pendy were neigbours when growing up, lol I still can't get my head round that, how two people doing so can become chalk and cheese, both in the nicest of ways though. Both very nice kind, warm, friendly people,

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Why not explain what you mean by that statement and dig a big hole for yourself :D

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It cant be deep enough for me Neil!

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He can stop when he gets to to the 6 foot mark.
Has anyone got some old floor boards, we need to make a box? ;)
I wonder if Gayle can raise some money for a wake.

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romour also has it that mez is quite good with the horses heads on pillows ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bye the way pendy can still do a lancs accent.

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Mez is also very good at fitting both feet in her mouth :D

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really ?................

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Re: unusual facts about Accrington or Oswaldtwistle
 

Interesting fact about Accrington, it has a war memorial on wheels.

Do they have to put a pound in the slot when they want to move it about for Rememberance Day?

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ya what lol is that true or you being daft

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No it's true.

There is a perfectly nice one in Oak Hill Park, but the one they use for the offical Rememberance Day is wheeled out infront of the Town Hall every year.

Perhaps Peter Britcliffe doesn't want any of November's mud on his bell bottoms, if he was forced to go up the park.;)

Lest we forget.

Hardly the Somme though is it?

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Don't you have a remembrance day march led by the scouts and cubs, from the church to the memorial to place the wreaths then?:confused:

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William Shakespere appeared in Accrington on the occasion of the opening of the town's fine market hall. This was not the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon, but a concert pianist of the same name. A newspaper report of the time said that Mr Shakespere "executed Rigoletto on the pianoforte’’.

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One interesting fact is that before the reorganisation (tinkering) Church was the smallest urban district in England and Oswaldtwistle was the largest. Yeah, I know, I'll get the anorak out.