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Traditionally Clayton-le-Moors was always considered to be a town of two halves. You were either a 'top-ender' or a 'bottom-ender' - depending on which side of the Load O'Mischief pub you lived on. The two had definite opinions about each other and rarely mixed socially. There was, however, an annual football match between players from each faction held at Wilson's Playing Fields.

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Mad isn't it Bazf?! :D When I worked at the bank there I had a colleague who was a bottom ender. She was most adamant that they never socialised with the top enders! She obviously wasn't a footballer.:D

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When I worked on the buses they used to run (mostly on market days) buses the Load Of Mischief from Accrington just to cater for the number of people that travelled to/from the area.

There used to be a brick built shelter on Blackburn Rd just round the corner from the pub that the Ribble Buses used on the Burnley to Blackburn run.

The LoM buses from Accrington went along Atlas St from Church Lane and turned into Blackburn Rd to head back to Accrington.

Can't recall bank being on an island though.

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I was showing my Mum the photos of the Accy buses before this thread came on and when I showed her this.....

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...83/Pim0004.jpg

She said that this bus, as far as she can remember ran from New Lane, as the bus says, to the Load of Mischief. Strange name for a pub, although probably not that unusual in Accy!! Lol!

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There was also a bus that ran to a place called Bedlam, yes with the name written on the destination board.

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By gum Bernard thats too much information mate, thar showin thi age theer. Buses like the one in the picture ran from New Lane to the Forts Arms in Clayton and on Saturday buses used to run from the Black Dog to the Load Of Mischief anternately with the service buses in order to provide a 6 minute service along the route from Oswaldtwistle Black Dog to the Load Of Mischief.

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I think they knocked it down in the early seventies. I used to go to Night School in Rishton and we'd changed buses at that corner. Then catch the bus to go into Accy.

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definitely not early seventies, closer to the other end of the decade. I lived a couple of streets away and used to hang around with the daughter of the landlord, cant remember her name now. Motorway was built '82-'83ish but it was closed for a while before that.

I was asked for directions to the load of mischief a few months ago, he'd been up and down Whalley road looking for it :)

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think sparhawks nearer the mark with end of the decade - mid to end is what i was thinking.

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Willow, I think the colleague you mention must have been my sister, she worked at the TSB in Clayton from leaving school right up to when she left to have her son in 1983. She may not have been too much into football then but she's certainly made up for it since :rolleyes:

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Oh yes, it was only after she went back after her maternity leave that she got shifted about a lot, Ossy, Accrington & various branches in Blackburn. She only left 2 or 3 years ago after an accident at the bank.

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ooh accident at the bank????? :eek:

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Yea the safe door slammed onto her back, left her in a bit of state for quite a while - no compo though, they managed to worm their way out of it, so she then took her redundancy, think she'd had enough by then