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I just read this story in the evening telegraph and its caused me to have a "senior moment " I'm trying to remember where the Load of Mischief pub/bus stop was located, I thought it was on the corner where this story mentions the Hare and Hounds as being located , is my memory playing tricks , I seem to remember a pub on the corner, a bank across the street on the same side, and opposite the cinema/bingo hall , cant for the life of me remember what was on the 4th corner
thanks

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...east_lancs.php

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yes, it was those X roads. The load of mischief was knocked down when they made the motorway.

My dad once fell off his motorcycle ther when a kiddie ran out in front of him. It was cobbles back then and when wet they were lethal for bikes.

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The Load of Mischief was on the other corner diagonal from the Hare and Hounds. It has been gone a long long time.....can't just think how long, but I guess there will be someone on here who will tell us.

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so it was next door to the cinema ?

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Well, there was the garage next door to the pub and then there was the Carlton Picture house...although when I moved to clayton in 1966 it was a Bingo hall run by Fred Skinner.

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Eh, Willow, I can't remember that at all. Must've moved it while I was on nights.

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yep , your right , all coming back to me now ,
thanks :D :D

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taking a wild guess id say all that was about 30+ years ago..my gran lived op toward martholme grange and when wed been to town wed always get off the bus outside the load of mischief..

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I remember catching the bus up there when I was doing my Nurse training.....and that was more than 30 years ago...so I reckon it could be in the region of 30 years......I don't think it is 30+ though.

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I remember teh LoM pub and I'm 37 so it can't be much over 30 years if that.

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well i rem from being bout 7/8ish but cant rem when it was pulled down ..although i do rem the road being altered so your prob right entwisi

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I remember going in the 'Load' for a pint, as we had just moved to Clayton and was giving it the 'once over', there was only two people in the pub ,unusual for those days. "Where is everyone" I said "over road in't Hare n hounds, new landlords fell out wi Cobby". Apparantly Cobby were a bit of a character and if you kicked one they all limped. Has it changed?

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as a kid in the 70s i live on blackburn rd down from the lom the house use to be the old police station

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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

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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.

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The butchers next to the star was Joe Simpsons the grocers Irene Stanworths cant remember the name of the person from the dry cleaners just remember she was a nice blond women.Also remember the butchers over the road where the bus stopped was run by big Vinney (Vincent) before the coop.

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I think it came down late 70s early 80s. Just before the motorway opened 82ish they had a 10k road race from Burnley which was won by a friend of mine, also in that race was a guy from Burnley Tommy? who ran with a bag of cement on his back.

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You mentioned west's garage. I have been trying to find information on that.
My wifes uncle was a owner / mechanic in the early days, also reported as running the first taxi in clayton.
any ideas on history