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Acrylic-bob 06-11-2005 18:05
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As it happens, I was down there this morning and just happened to have the camera with me....

WillowTheWhisp 06-11-2005 18:07
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Er, I think I qualify as a local. I've lived here since I was 4 years old! :D

It shouldn't stink. Not in this day and age. If it does it should be dealt with. What is going into it these days to make it stink? It's not like we have all the waste we used to have and poluting rivers is not acceptable in the 21st century.

So much easier to ignore a problem when it is hidden.

WillowTheWhisp 06-11-2005 18:08
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Excellent photos A-b. You have truly captured the artistic effect of gum on tarmac.

Acrylic-bob 06-11-2005 18:34
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"The River Stink" Stinks no more. I can remember as a lad in the late fifties and early sixties of the last century when its colour and odour changed daily depending on the weather and whatever the mills upstream from Bull Bridge chose to pour into it. Happily, this has all changed and the only stuff that goes into it now is runoff from the surrounding fields and streets. The name however remains and is a "colourful" reminder of times past.

chav1 06-11-2005 18:59
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its been a while since i was close to it but there used to be condoms , turds and bog roll flowing down the river stink so someones toilet was hooked up to it at some point or other lol

Gayle 06-11-2005 19:06
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The tarmac has only been down for a few weeks and already it's covered in chewing gum poc marks.

SPUGGIE J 06-11-2005 19:14
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So thats the welcome mat back again bams that they are.

Graham Jones 06-11-2005 22:21
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Originally Posted by chav1
Unfortunatly, the housing problem has been with us for years & at a local level, neither Labour or Conservative administrations have shown any imagination or possible solution to that problem. What appears to be hapening now is a tawdry repeat of the big city slum clearances of the 1950's & 60's.

Yet the property price rise in Hynburn was the 2nd largest in England, according to the Halifax a few months ago. Accepted,it started from a very low base level, but now that the average property price is £100,000 or thereabouts that is a simple reflection on supply and demand,on peoples incomes and their expectations on the long-term value of their property. So it can't be all that bad.

I really would not spend much time contrasting ourselves to the Franco/German Economic model. With the former currently going up in flames & the latter with 9% unemployment and both with a per capita GDP lower than the UK, there ain't much there to shout about.


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Just a couple of responces:

I don't think we have really done well on Housing for a long time. I agree. We have been short sighted and unimaginative. Baxenden, statisically the wealthiest ward and newest build area, now in parts looks tired and aged after just 25 years. I saw them built and they were built quick and cheap back then.

We did build spacious council housing which has avoided slums being replaced with slums. Where we didn't build spacious Social Housing, and it was built cheaply and to a higher density, it now has much less appeal and accordingly suffers more in my view. Its an interesting comparison on social build.

If you build poorer housing you attract poorer people and paint a picture of which includes all the problems of poor urban areas of your area.

The property price rise isn't based on housing supply and demand. Hyndburn has an over supply of about 2000 [out of 33000] so prices shopuld go down, not up.

Recent houseing boom is due to surplus capital being parked away from the fragile stock market post 9/11 which turned in to a speculators stampede by 2004. Every estate agent has recent stories of unknown people from Surrey saying 'Buy me £2million worth of Housing in Hyndburn, any houses will do'. Like art, house prices have nothing to do with supply or true value. Simply perceived value.

On employment I only meant the Benelux in terms of it costs more to produce goods further from the market centre and that extra transport and knowledge cost traditionally has to offset by lower costs elsewhere, ie wages. I wasn't comparing economic models more the long term decades old trend. ie Englands south east is now overdeveloped and over heating because of the advantages of being nearly continental trade. Of course relocation to the North is taking place.

chav1 06-11-2005 23:48
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excuse me but in grahams post it says origionaly posted by chav1

i didnt say that lol

edit:

mines the post with reference to tits and hbc getting on them ;)

SPUGGIE J 06-11-2005 23:51
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Would that be libel then?

chav1 06-11-2005 23:53
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Would that be libel then?
i dunno but two can play that game :D

harwood red 06-11-2005 23:53
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I think he's quite chuffed that it made him sound quite intelligent and very un chav like ;) :p

chav1 06-11-2005 23:55
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I think he's quite chuffed that it made him sound quite intelligent and very un chav like ;) :p
hey everyone should have a little chav in them :p

SPUGGIE J 07-11-2005 00:10
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i dunno but two can play that game :D
Classic chav absolute classic.:D

garinda 07-11-2005 00:15
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A little Chav?

At the counter I asked to super-size it.

I want my deposit back.


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