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Does anyone know when the Christmas lights in Accy are being switched on this year??

I know it's early, BUT I know it's sometime in November.:o

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Firstly...I got no idea

Secondly....why you ask, you gonna try to slip a wire in there, make the leccy meter more passive?

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How did ya guess :D:D:D

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I had a "mystic moment" :D Hope yer ok, Im bailin out. I know, I know lightweight.....shurrup. Night an godbless.

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THURSDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER !!

Gawd .. you bored too Slinky ?? LOL

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LOL, must be :rolleyes::D

Thanks for that :o

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On my 19th!

urgh, just getting old now....

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Have been working when lights were switched on for last few years so haven't been able to get into town to see them. I am really looking forward to going this year:D

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Always makes me chuckle Bernie when you say going into town .. ya' there already ..:D

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Suppose I am really I will have to think of a different way of putting it:p

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Could be dreaming like, but sure some photos around here somewhere from one of our members who was up the Coppice ? :confused:

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ahhh.. the good old christmas bananas lights will be switched on soon...

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SO, who will be going to watch them tomoz night??

I will be there with the clan in tow!! :rolleyes: :D

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i might go if i'm not still in a bad mood

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i am going!!!

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I'm hoping to be there

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We will probably be down there.

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Was it last year they had those Fake That group on ?

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Think it starts around 6 o'clock, apparently they've got some students from Accy College on first,not sure what they're doing though then - wait for it - a Spice Girls tribute act :rolleyes: - class eh!
Lights are switched on about 7.30 followed by the firework display about 10 - 15 minutes later.

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Harry's been poorly recently (the reason I haven't been on much in the past few weeks) but if he's ok, i'll be going down. But only at 7.30 to watch the fireworks!

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Just stand there and mime should make them pretty realistic :)

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Hope he is getting better Lolly:)

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I have just been up, would be a good view.

Do you mean mine?

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post460056

No fireworks though.:D

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Could be Mr.D .. hope Bonnyboy didn't spend too much time looking for them :D

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Tomorrow? A whole month and abit before the day? If i had my way they would go up on the 24th and come down on the 26th.

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aleks.... you eating humbugs??

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No just dont like christmas. Dont get the whole be nice to everyone because its christmas time.

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looks like your off everyones card and present list

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I'm glad there are people like Aleks that don't like it!! hope they stay away from town and let me shop!! :D

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As always, the way i like it.

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when they go off in accy i can see them from my house

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hmmm... i am not so far away from accy centre..wonder if i will be able to.. save me from walking into town and freezing to death!!

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you should definately be able to see something from where you live em

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dunno if i am going.. little fella been off school 4 2 days with this bug.. he ok now so going back tomorow.. will see how he is..maybe just bundle him up and watch them from here. doesnt help that my fella is working so will have to walk it

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may just have a trot down tomoz night, weather permitting.:)

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Thanks for the warning :D:p

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Ah but i shall be in disguise. --------------------------------------------------------------- as a human being;)

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Hope you all enjoy yourselves while im stuck selling you lot pasties. Yes sayers will be open till 7 specially for this. Been told that there is the possibility of fights breaking out as it happened last year and the arndale had to be shut. (Not going to happen while im working id go mad if anyone damaged anything in the shop lol).

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So you won't be there then :p:p:p:p:rolleyes::D

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Not me, I prefer Greggs :D

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what time is it starting this light turning on thingy??

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Starts about sixish but they don't turn lights on till seven thirty then fireworks after that

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And in typical fashion its going to be really cold later - wrap up warm:D

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any black peas going on sale??
oooo i like black peas in the cold with plenty of vinegar!!

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No idea haven't been able to get there for last few years so don't know what they sell

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Not that i have noticed before previously, if the burger van is still open near outside market then i think they might hope so for a nice hotdog, or mostly people go to greggs.

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money grabbing sods!!
what time do they shut greggs?
I take it its late closing tonight or is that every night?

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:rofl38: not a greggs lover myself, yeh its the start of late opening tonight, so i can gather greggs will be open, they were last year, me i hope the burger van is, least u can get a coffee or hot drink LOL:D

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If you go, get yourself to Greenhalgh's (sp) near Wilkinsons.

They sell the best black pea's ever!! and are dirt cheap for a big pot .that's where I will be heading anyway :D and you even get a sachet of vinegar :D

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Wonder if the switch on will be as eventful as Preston's :rolleyes:

A former soap actor has been sacked from a pantomime after swearing at a 3,000-strong crowd as he switched on the Christmas lights.

Paul Danan has apologised after he swore several times down the microphone at the audience in Preston city centre. Danan, who also appeared in ITV's Celebrity Love Island, was due to play Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Charter Theatre, but has been axed.

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Harrys much better today, so i'll be wrapping him up and heading down there.

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And i find it amayzin but ill be there too.

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Did anybody find any black peas? When I walked round after the switch on there were hardly any shops open!!!

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No there was only the shops in The Arndale open and a couple on broadway. I don't know about the food stands though, I wasn't going to buy anything else after paying £4 for a light sabre!! So went to McDonalds! lol. I'm attempting to thaw my feet out at the moment though it was bloody freezing, I went into Peacocks after a while and bought a pair of socks. The fireworks were well worth it though, I thought they were brilliant.:)

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The firworks went on for a while and just when you thought that was it they started again. You could just imagine somebody on the Arndale roof shouting "Hang on I found another box in a carrier bag " :D

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well how crap was that down there tonight? one poor bloke switching the lights on by hand on broadway, seems they spent all the budget on the fireworks instead of getting a power cable long enough to light all the lights all at once

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i wandered off to the pub while they did that..... came back out for the fireworks....they were good tho! not sure about the "entertainment" ... a suggestion for next year..... LEARN THE SONGS!!!!!!

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Nobody go on the fairground ride?

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well i thought it was ok, yeh the group wern't exactly the "Ronettes" but the fireworks wern't half bad, even bumped into Mel n Dave n family, but had just missed Slinks,so guess that was a lucky escape.:D

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for those that missed it there will be pics on the accy market web site tomorrow ( too flipping cold to put them on now )

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Will take a look even though I was there, Thanks:)

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They were in lots of cardboard boxes, I was looking at them this morning.

I thought they were the best Christmas switch on fireworks for years.

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Think the fireworks here would be very hard to beat:)

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I hated it. Trying to walk through that many people while pushing a pram was a nightmare, then when people wont move out of the way and the pram taps them in the ankles they look at you like your the devil. Thought the fireworks where cool, didnt really see much though was in a rush to get home.

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i had a pram with me last night, i just pushed my way through the crowd with the pram, whoever got hit with it should of moved out the bloody way :D

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yea i did the same it got anoying tho there was some one with a pram thay could see i had a double pram but nope thay still stand a distance away from the pram leaving the baby in the pram in my way and i wasnt going a differant way its hard enough pushing the double pram enough without having to turn differant ways just to get past the thing that makes me laugh is that the ppl in your way give you a dirty look for catching there anckles or catching a wheel on the pram and thay expect us with prams to move ha yeah right

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Is like that on a normal day down town , when i go down town with my bf and child no one moves out the way i just hit them, some people are really ignorant, i just say excuse me and if they dont move then taugh!, my bf is the opossite he could wait for a long time untill all people move out of the way!!.http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...ons/icon10.gif

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oh as for the lights and stuff coudnt wacth it, i was working like every year i have been here lol

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Our girls went down town and Emzie went on the ride. They enjoyed it. We stayed home and watched a DVD and the cats watched the fireworks through the window! :D

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ooh you little minx,,,,:D:rolleyes:

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I went on the ride, think I am losing it:eek:

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My daughter was singing and dancing as part of Acc and Ross performing arts group, she was the one in the white trilby and all tinselled up. I'm so proud of her, she has never sung or danced in front of anyone before and they had very little time to practice. In the mistletoe and wine song that AJ sang she sang the high notes solo. Well done Jo (Devilangel) I am so proud of you :D