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Does anyone out there remember Arthur Walton, I lived at Slaidburn Drive, attended Hollins school and was employed at Howard & Bulloughs ( A. K. A as Platt's ). Favorite pub's were Bridge, Bees Knees and Spinning Jenny. I moved to Germany in the early 70's and after living in several countries worldwide was sent to the states in 1985. Married to Sandra, with three teenage kids, Daniel , Sara and Jason. If you want to contact me please use my e mail. I miss Accrington and it's history.

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I used to live up Fern Gore and went in the Jenny a lot.Remember the Carr Family

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Better said do you remember the Dickinson from Broadfield Road and then Cartmel Avenue

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I used to live up Fern Gore and went in the Jenny a lot.Remember the Carr Family

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I was born at Downham Drive in the Fern Gore area, later moved to Slaidburn Drive. Went to school with several "Fern Gorer's" , Bernard Addison , and a kid called Eddleston being a couple of names from the past.It was these guys that seemed to make everyones life hell, at Hollins. Spinning Jenny had good musical groups during the early 70's. Fished at Jacobs Lodge, and the Plunger for many happy years. Drank lot's of "yards" at the Plough, and lived to tell the tale.

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Hi Artie, i know Bernard Addison, he used to call at my place every week, he moved up to the Morecambe area a few months back, he's not on the net, if there is an owd gits motorcyle club up Morecambe way you might catch up with him there, ill mention that you were asking about him next time i see him.

H.

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Thanks for the reply you sent me, Bernard used to like beating up smaller, and less physical kids at Hollins. He hung around with other guys from Fern Gore as protection. I was the target of Bernards attention until I stood up one day and returned some of his "treatment"., suprised to say he was a little different after that ! Tell him I just bought a Yamaha 1100 c. c.  V Star cruiser last month. Next year I will try and buy a Harley Davidson money permitting. How are things in Accrington, it's years since I was there.

Regards
ArthurWalton

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[quote author=Mik_Dickinson link=board=lostfriends;num=1061476181;start=0#2 date=09/02/03 at 21:39:28]I used to live up Fern Gore and went in the Jenny a lot.Remember the Carr Family[/quote]


I remember Linda, she was a right b1tch to my friend when we were teenagers, she used to bully her!

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[quote author=Lesley link=board=lostfriends;num=1061476181;start=0#8 date=09/05/03 at 17:02:04]


I remember Linda, she was a right b1tch to my friend when we were teenagers, she used to bully her![/quote]
Believe me she has changed a lot over the years.Her brother Jim now runs the Plough.Would it be too much to ask who your friends name was?

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Sorry, don't think my friend would appreciate e posting her name! What happened to the other brother 'Ian'?

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Ian is has now married a very nice woman and i sdo believe they are starting a family.At least it looked that way when i was over.Either that or she has put weight on LOL!

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Hi Artie. I was born on Fern Gore Ave. Before Spinning Jenny was built so I think I am a big older than you guys. Left when we had to move into caravans while the council put loos upstairs and moderise the good old houses. Tom was still in the paper shop at the end of the ave.

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[quote author=Lynne . Tom was still in the paper shop at the end of the ave.[/quote]
Believe it or not and it may not come as a surprise it is now Asian owned or was when we were last back there

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We  lived at 30 Rimmington Ave

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What is it about Fern Gore? half its inhabitants seem to move abroad, check you lot out for an example...... :)

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I wanted to see the sun :)
All my family still live in the area thou

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We have maybe moved away but once a Fern Gorian always a Fern Gorian.  Shame we cant have a reunion.

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[quote author=Lynne link=board=lostfriends;num=1061476181;start=0#17 date=10/10/03 at 12:57:42]We have maybe moved away but once a Fern Gorian always a Fern Gorian. Shame we cant have a reunion.[/quote]
never a trueer word said Lynne.Jo you just would not understand it.Inbred thing

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There alway's been something funny about them from up Fern Gore......

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clarence road is were I lived from the age of four till I was fourteen and it was great then bullough park, sledging down past duxburys shop at the end of fern gore ave finishing up at the bottom of willows lane going to spring hill council school old bill spencer cane in his hand the headmaster miss hindle my favourite teacher them were the days

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used to live at no 6 Rimington Ave Fern Gore for about 12 years from 1971 to 1983 roberts family. Robinsons live next door. Tom had the papershop and bill and edna had the VG. i always remember he was a city fan. Dad used to work behind the bar at the jenny and my mum used to clean. :D

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anybody remember the chippie along Fern Gore Ave? Believe the womans name was Joan and they lived along High Street

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I think the last name was Wallace but I remember the dog they use to have

I can get HP sauce now at the commissary here on post. I moaned about them not having any British food so much that the manager got rich tea bicusits Ty Phoo tea Robertsons jam plus about 10 -15 other items.
I do not have the heart to tell him we are moving in dec to the west coast.

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KLnow the feeling as well.Go mad on anything over here.Can get HP now.Walkers crisps i do myself.Nice little side line business.Wanted to get Hollands Pies going but well, the Germans will not allow them over the border.Try www.expatshopping.comThey deliver all over the world and you never know there may even be a  store in Vancouver

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Yes chippy people were called Wallace. Their daughter was called Pauline. She was a friend of mine and went to Holy Family. Sorry I dont know where thy are now I left in 1968 and I think they left before me.

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Mik  if it is the Wallace's your talking about they lived in the flat above the shop. Other shops at the time were of course Tom's papershop and Ruth had the clothes shop.

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Keith which shop at the end of Fern Gore Ave. The one on willows Lane near phone box was owned by The Britcliffes and then by the Stantons.  What year did the Duxburys have a shop there. I used to slide down the grassy hill just behind the shop on flattened cardboard boxes.  That was when I couldn't find wheels to make a trolly. Now they were mean machines. ;D

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duxburys shop was at the willows lane end later the shop was owned by the newalls who later moved to rishton and with the help of their daughter shirley and her husband jack ran two paper shops As regards the sledging the king of the sledges was kenny hanson as many as six could get on kennys    sledge for  the ride of your life  starting at dunnyshop ave and ending at blackburn road were platts club is now  This was at a time when the estate was often isolated from the town due to the snow and the salting wasnot on the scale it is now in fact we had five very bad winters in they early forties an during those five years the snow was on the ground often from november till the and of march I remember my  older brothers taken sledges down to the  scaithcliffe pit then at the bottom of ormrod street and taking all day to get back with two bags of coal and the neighbours coming round cadging because every one had run out of precious coal through therebeing no deliverys due to the snow  yes I REMEMBER those days

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Wow Keith you sound like the historian of Fern GoreLived up Fern Gore from 1975 to 1982 and now over here

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ferngore estate when I lived there was a totally different place to what it is now I could name nearlyevery family who lived there in my  time even now 50 years on All the children went to either springhill council school or st oswalds catholic school and if your dad wanted a pint at night he had to walk to accrington during the war hardly any buses ran at night or walk to the plough inn in fielding lane through a mucky lane past lightbrowns farm another good walk was to the pickup  arms on moscowmill st which my mum and dad did occasionally at the weekend but only when it was fine to end this message I will name some of the familys who were on ferngore in my time there ferngore ave the godwins ainsworths silvestors coxes dunnyshop ave the andrews lowes finns  podmores shepherds Icould go on and on but I will end with the name of my good friend teddy barnes everone on the estate knew teddy  ps to get to the pickup arms you had to walk through nelsons farmyard and watched were you walked

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Wow Keith that was a bit before my time.As i read your post i can picture it all in my mind.I lived up there before they put up that new estate on High Street.Used to all be field when i lived up there.Plough is now a belting little pub.Used to go to the Shoulder of Mutton and Red Lion when i was a little bit younger

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Well Keith thats a bit before my time too. My parents also were regulars at the Plough.  I went to St. Oswalds and later Holy Family. Many of us on here were from Fern Gore we must know some families in common. Some from my time. Franny and Peter Daly. Arlene Burton. Barbara and David Young. Angela Walmsley. Malcolm Hill. Rotherham. Hankinson. Rae. Boast
Did you never go sledging up Sheep Coats Farm at the top of Willows Lane after Miller Fold.
Do any of you remember the motorbike scrambles they held up Green Howarth before they turned it into a golf club.

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Sorry lynne none of the names ring any bells as regards green howarth the main family living there  was the lynches who owned the shop facing the pub I  sat next to eric lynch  at school  who went on to work for his older brothers at the garage next door to the shop when he left school I believe the business is still going but is based at huncoat now as regards the chippie the one we used was on willows lane and owned by mrs illingworth my older brother both mated out and worked at  the scaitcliffe pit with her son albert they were both electricians the shop itself was on the one row of houses on the left were bullough park finished the chippie at the far end  and a grocers  nearest to the park  At the corner of ferngore ave were it led down to the path going towards what is now high street was an old cabin which was the gloggers shop run by john roberts and of course we nearly all wore glogs in them days so he was always kept busy and of course he repaired shoes but he did long hours and never closed 7 days a week I still bump into the odd person who was on the estate in our time there but the only one who is still there I met recently in accrington his name jack hargreaves  Icould go on and on but its getting late so when I get chance I will come back with a few more names and memories                                  keith

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LYNNE,KEITH.do you remember the jarman family lived near the Red Lion pub?I'm sure malcome hill was in the same class as me at school. Hollins.

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janet i remember the Jarman family.Dave Jarman was the eldest if i remember correctly.Had many a pint with him in the Lion and the Shoulder.Do you remember Bob Dickinson who lived right next to the Red Lion.Also had a pen up there too.

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mik.maxine is the eldest , david and his youngest brother christopher still live in the same cottage, i'm there cousin.my auntie and uncle died a few years ago. Dont keep in touch with them much, but we see each other knocking around town.

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In reply to the message from vinny our family moved into accrington 1944 but there were still some large familys still on ferngore at the corner of clarence road and wordsworth road lived the ainsworths my brothers were very friendly with tommy and on the same road the lowes one was called roland another big family lived on dunnyshop the Finns there dad was a great bowler and his sons have inherited his skill and are still playing  as regards the family called hill the ones we knew lived in a house along side nelsons farm there was clare who married cris hindle a farmer on the top road haslingden margaret who I us to fancy mary I cant remember there brothers but there dad drove the three wheeler scammel at accrington railway station and of course colin nelson the farmers son was in the same class as me at springhill school maybe those names may have stirred someones memory

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Janet  the name Maxine rings a bell but I cant bring her to mind.
Malcom Hill had dark blonde hair and kept ferrets. I wont give your age away but from an earlier message you sent me, yes he would be about your age.

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Also new the addison family from fern gore bernard also went to my school. My grandma was  called addison before she got married, so i know that we were related to him somewhere down the line.did you know the mc intyres i knew linda.have'nt seen her for, must be 35 years.

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Yes, Janet I do remember Linda. She had a sister called Angela who worked with me at Redac Brickworks Huncoat. Many moons ago.

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It's a small world lynne, i bet a lot of us on this site know each other or people from the past. ;D

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redac brickyard canteen was a place I popped into for my dinner now and again when I worked as a driver for the NCB the huncoat pit canteen was rubbish  and the food at redac was excellent so quite a few of us opted for the redac  canteen I got to knew quite a few of the brickyard workers which came in handy in later years when I had to switch jobs and worked for a large haulage firm nearby no names but they closed down a few years ago and the firm did the odd load out of redac but not many because their main customer was NORI have you guessed the name of the firm

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hey kieth my dad used to work for ncb at altham we lived in downham ave  then moved to church  we lived at 38  i have 2 brothers  bernard & tony who is the youngest my names mary , yes i remember owd tom in shop, i went to st marys ( cos i got nits in me head at st oswalds) lol then went to holy fam for 3 months

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janet my dad used to mate around with Berhhard Addison and i know Pete Finney also commonly known lovingly as pin head to the people who know him well.Talented Table Tennis player in his youth.Bwelieve Bernhard works in I.T.T. now he was in Germany a while back.

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The bernard i knew will be as old as me which is 50, maybe the one your on about may be his father. (not to sure about that )

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[quote author=windthrop link=board=lostfriends;num=1061476181;start=0#21 date=10/14/03 at 20:25:48]used to live at no 6 Rimington Ave Fern Gore for about 12 years from 1971 to 1983 roberts family. Robinsons live next door. Tom had the papershop and bill and edna had the VG. i always remember he was a city fan. Dad used to work behind the bar at the jenny and my mum used to clean. :D[/quote]
;D >:( ::)

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Hi everyone. I used to live on Broadfield road. I have posted under missing friemds. I just recently lost my dad Walter Nixon to a blood clot - it was sudden and instant and I am having a very hard time with it. We used to go into the Spinning Jenny a lot. Mom used to work at Howard and Bulloughs and I think dad did too. The worked at Silk Velvet before we left for Canada in 1969. Mom was Shirley and my brother is Paul Nixon. We lived at 18 broadfield road.

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I've seen Broadfield Road mentioned a few times on this thread. Does anyone remember the Hindle family who moved in there round about 1955? Their parents had just divorced and they moved there with their mother. There were two brothers Thomas and William and two sisters Sylvia and a younger one whose name I don't recall. Thomas would be about 13, Sylvia 12, William 10 and the little sister maybe 7.
I would be obliged for any information anyone has on this family as I am trying to get in touch.

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Hi Janet that is about the age that he will be as my father is about that age too and he used to hang around with him.I believe my father mentioned something about him being a talented musician

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Mike Mckigney now living in Australia looking for John Power who lived in Water st.
We both loved modern Jazz and spent hours doing solos of the greats.I was lucky enough to meet John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk in a club called The Five Spot down in the village in New York.Wish he had been with me.I spent a lot of time with them and George Shearing gave me a ticket to a concert called Jazz Under The Stars in Central Park where I saw and heard Billie Holiday,Dinah Washington,ModernJazz Quartet and lots more over a few days and nights.Good times John.
If anybody can find my old pal or knows where he is please get in touch with me.
Mike Mckigney.

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very true tealeaf, im from the arncliffe ave "lot"
I was always afraid of the ones from ferngore, they used to beat you up for nothing.

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Does anyone remember any of the following from Ferm Gore. Ronnie Grimes (squeek) Bob Rawcliffe, Nellie Ainsworth, the Tomlinson brothers ,Terry Bentley











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Remember Billy Rawcliffe and Jack Rawcliffe.Only thomlinson bros. i remember were from SpringHill

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do you remember linda bury or jon jackson. my family was from up ferngore my dad actually there was six of them malcolm, iris, janet,jon my dad saved someone's life once in jacobs lodge. my grandad dick bury used to go in shoulder of mutton.

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Went to school with Linda.Also played football with her brothers.Robin was the younger one and Geoff was the older on if memory serves me right.Know your Grandad as well but only fleetingly.They all knew my dad and his brother.Peter and Alan Dickinson.?????????

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Yeah thats right. My uncle geoff and uncle Robin. My grandad ran the Green haworth football team. Do you not remember my dad then either he lived on cartmell avenue at the very top left hand side? I will ask my mum if she remembers you?:)

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ee by gum this takes me back.I used to play for the Green Howarth football club meself.Your mum remembers me.We met up 2 years ago in the Golden Cross,when we were over on holiday, and i have her e mail adress too.If she cannot remember Mik from Germany, tell her i am Jim Carrs mate.Would be nice to hear from her sometime.

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Keith, do you remember the Rishton family from Green Haworth? They lived in one of the cottages that is now Moorgate, (formerly Biggins Bedlam). I believe it was also known locally as 'Red Lion Row' due to its location.
The names were Florence (Davenport) and Thomas (Rishton), the children were Walter, Annie, Edward, Helen (Nellie) and William (Billy). They all went to Green Haworth School.

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They all used to drink in both the Red Lion & The Shoulder.

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does anyone know anyone called Stephen Prescott from Oswaldtwistle. I think he lived in West end somewhere. he will be about 40 now i think??

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i used to live on slaidburn drive no 14 i moved there 89,was nice area then, i dont know what its like now any1 live there now or know what its like

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I lived on Broadfield Road for years....and went to St. Oswalds. Do you remember the Nixon family from Broadfield Road, 18 Broadfield Road

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Hi athur , do you remember me ** derek crowley** if so do get in touch regards derek.

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I was at St Oswalds and lived in Fern Gore.
1958 - 1966

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Hi Julian:

I bet we were at St. Oswalds at the same time. Where do you live now?

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Hi from Lawrence lived 15 Arncliffe