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That really doesn't surprise me. Wouldn't the union help?

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Well, I thought my eyes were playing tricks, because I lived at number 19 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, where the house used to be a Police Station and after that it was a fish & chip shop. we moved 1969. The bus stop outside The Load, was A Ribble stop to Blackburn, on the opposite corner, it was Hodsons furniture shop. There was the Load of Mischief pub, then west's Gararge, then the Cinema, first the Star, then the Carlton, Star Ally ran down the side, then there was a butchers shop, a green grocers, & a Dry cleaners, then Clayton St. I can go onto the next block, and so on . By the way there was a large stone set in number 19, with Police Station & the coat of arms on it. the bus from Accrington stoped outside the Coop Butchers, on the other side of the lights on Whalley Road.

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heh, My dad was born(and lived) on Alexandra Street, my mum lived on William St.

so much for not socialising :D

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So did Clayton have 2 police stations at one time ? I seem to remember the police station being about 1/2 way up the hill to the canal on the right hand side .
:D :D

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Your right, Steely , our house was a p/s a long time befor that one on Whalley Rd, is that still a police Station,

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No Alan, the old police station on Whalley Road was turned into an old people's residential home, not sure if it still is one though

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my grandparents were living and working in the load of mischief when it shut down. so when i read this i decided to ask my nana who said it was shut down on the 19th january 1980 which makes it 30 years ago this january :) sadly the landlord my grandad derek thompson died four years ago x

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Was this your house Alan .. taken last year ? It was a police station I think. Don't remember it being a fish and chip shop though ... :confused:

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Yes, 1980 Leah ... lots of photographs in local history books ... should get hold of them .. interesting history surrounds this pub.

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Where were the Clayton UDC offices,? can remember the council 'yard' near the canal but have no memory of the offices :confused:

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I think these were just past the canal bridge, going up on the right Steeljack ... well, according to a book I have in front of me now.:D Demolished in 1977.

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My grandad use to go in Load of Mischief, well over 100 years ago, when he was a young man ,and I remember him telling me that there was a painting of a man with a woman on his back piggy back style, and that was why it was called a Load of Mischief.

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Never heard that one,but ta for telling us.:)always wondered cos ive "Never" seen another pub with that name.

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Not only did the sign have a depiction of a man carrying a woman on his back, but it also had a monkey to the side of him...like that had been on his back too.
Certainly that is my memory of it and I did a search and true enough, the monkey was there.

I never saw another pub by that name but a search shows the there were other pubs by a similar name...The Man with a Load of Mischief.
Maybe that was what the Load of Mischief was originally, but the locals (over the years) shortened it so the brewery(Thwaites) called it that.

When I got married in 1966, this was our local.
It was a thriving pub and a place that was good to be for hearing about the daily doings of Clayton.
I was sad when it closed to make way for the motorway.

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You were a bottom-ender if you lived over the canal bridge.