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the accrington acorn
just received the first copy of the accrington acorn what a waste of ink and paper who's bright idea was this?.
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Not sure what you mean tosh?
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The health centre?
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I'm confused..............(a little more than usual)
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explanation please ?.
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from little acorns grow
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explantion, the accrington acorn is a free newspaper every month, full of nothing but advertisements and nothing more.
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I have a funny little story about the Accrington Acorn sign in town
Was sat on a bench with my little lad while he was eating his dinner, he said, look at that egg on there mum (the acorn sign) I said thats not and egg, look at the leaves, it's an acorn in a tree I told him, besides, ya don't get eggs in trees! He said, Yes you do mum! In birds nests!!!! ( Ps, he was 3:D) Aren't they ace!;) |
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We had ours delivered this morning Issue 1 of the Accrington Acorn.
Eight paged A4 sized Free publication. Lots of local business adverts as tosh says and not really a great deal more. They are “ A new Free newspaper with a emphasis on the lighter side of life” their aim is “to support and promote local business” On page 2 they give us a little description of Accy (glad they pointed out I was in Lancashire) in bold type they talk of “acorn-ring-town” (sure I’ve seen it on Accyweb that one. At the bottom of the blurb they say they have sourced various internet sites for their info. |
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Lol, I just Googled for more information on this 'news'paper, and was directed to this thread.:p
Is it on recycled paper? It would be quite ironic if Oak trees were being chopped down to produce it. |
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aint got one here......thank god,get enough junk mail.:rolleyes:
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:( I haven't got one.
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http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/wwwarts.../SootyWand.jpg Damn. Afraid not, you're still here.;) |
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THIS WAS IN THE ACORN CLASSIFEDS
1 CHAIR and four matching tables,mail order catalogue errow 2 pie and chips unfinished meal, full now,£1.25 3 for sale mans black jacket,as new, would suit me.hence no longer for sale,no offers.£115 4 wasted youth hardly used £22. 5 over twelve hundred farts in scrwtop jar,some labelled 1976-86, some vegetarian. £2 or offers for full collection. 6 phone us first if you wish to sprak to my wife and i befor anyone else 7good qualty armchair with scatterbrain cushions and a great big boring husband.£60. better than the the mag it self .:D:D:D LOL |
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A bit of a wander but I can't believe people don't known the meaning of the town's name, Accrington, because this means they don't know the relevance of all the little acorns on the signs in accy too?!
I'm always telling people up here what Oswaldtwistle means, because they think it sounds funny :p |
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to be fair to the paper
the most read newspaper is a freebie paper the metro which is supported by advertisements. i guess its just trying to achieve that. |
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Yep we got one, adverts galore...............
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Acorns are Acorns in my book wether they grow in accy or in london whats the difrence?
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I've not got one of these papers.
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i got the acorn other day, better than most pap out there
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A little something about Accrington itself. Accrington derives its name from Acre-Tun , meaning a settlement surrounded by an oak forest . It is of Saxon origin and in 1800 it was little more than a village. By the 1850's it had become an important stop on the coach road between Manchester and Clitheroe. As with all Lancashire towns, the Industrial Revolution changed its status and the availability of water power and coal quickly established a thriving cotton industry in the late 18 th century. Steeped in history, there is a memorial to the famous Accrington Pals Regiment , which was all but decimated during the trench conflicts of the First World War. The market hall is an architectural gem, built in 1869, selling traditional Lancashire fare and on the exterior you can find stone carvings of poultry and farm animals. The Town Hall was built in 1858 in the Italianate style as a memorial to Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the statesman who founded the police force. The Hargreaves family have been synonymous with the cotton industry in the town and one member, Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, was the husband of Alice Liddell – the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland . Accrington is also famous for its red “Nori” bricks, which came about when the mould was spelt wrongly as it should have read “Iron” due to the strength of these industrial building blocks. Who hasn't heard of Accrington Stanley ? One of the founder members of the Football League, and who re-found fame in the TV advert for milk with the little Scouser who remarked “Accrington Stanley, who are they”? What does HBC say |
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Is some of that info wrong :confused: |
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Does everybody get one of these papers or do you have to live in a certain area?
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I haven't got one, I live in the centre of town
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I live in Church and I didn't get one either
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it seems theres some chat about the acorn on here and was kindly passed on to it by a friend.
so allow me to clear a few things up for you i shall try and do it in order to keep things simple for you. 1. it was my bright idea Tosh, thanks for asking. and its only my ink and paper im wasting so dont have to worry there. 2. Its full of advertisements for one reason, its an advertsing paper! when i set up my own business i needed to advertise it, on requesting an ad in another local paper, i found it was to cost me in the region of £400. an amount i just couldnt afford, on doing a bit of market research, i was finding that quite a few other businesses in town where also struggling, and also couldnt afford to advertise. i placed an ad in the great harwood Herald ( a paper similar to mine, adverts and snippets) for a much cheaper price, and i got results. This resulted in me "coming up with my bright idea" to do one for accrington. I have had a great response from pretty much everyone who advertised, and who also want to go back in the next issue, i fully inderstand how it may just seem another circular doing the rounds, i also know that it was far too many adverts, but it had to start somewhere, the first three issues will have been completely non profit, all advertisers paying a percentage of the printing costs, and thats all. From small acorn large oaks grow as they say, we now have moved up to 12 pages, less adverts, more things to read and so on, hopefully next issue it will expand more, and next issue and next. it was a start we had to make and the encouragers far outway the disgruntled. 3. If the little stories of accrington are not what you want, dont sit there writing bad things ona forum, write some good things and send them in, get involved, help me change it into something for everyone. 4. Hi Garinda, no oaks trees where harmed in the production of the paper and recycled paper is something we are already looking into, just need to find right weight and and new tint. your comment did make laugh tho, thanks 5. cashman, and anyone else for that matter, if you do not want to recive a copy, then please send me addresses, all completely confidential, and i will personally take you all off the database we are building. And likewise if anyone has not had on delivered but would like one, send address and will make sure one is in the post to you. 6. Pam, if you liked the classifieds, (had more response about them than ANYTHING ha) then next issue is full of stuff like that, like said before, any jokes or stories you may wish to see in the paper, send them in. 7. mani, thanks, you seem to get the initial concept, similar but no real news, we get enough of that, and most of that aint real, so keeping it on the fun side, facts, stories and jokes, and advertisements of course. 8. Benipete. if you have any other stories and facts like that, is that kind of stuff we would like to put in, ive found out some amazing stuff about accrington since doing this and lived here pretty much all my life. Please contribute if you have anything you wish to add. 9. I live in centre of town too bernadette, I can post you one, no trouble or if you want one you can pick one up from the library every first week of the month. 10. thanks for discussing it though, was nice surprise. All you can ask is for it to be even mentioned. hope this clears some things up ( if anyone even cares) but one thing you should really understand is that this town is on its last legs at the very moment, you will be very surprised at how much things are turning for the worst, the bars are all closing, businesses are struggling, the market is on the verge of disappearing, and i could go on.. all the while, the supermarkets are booming, the pound shops flourishing and crimes on the up. It doesn't take long to work out the future state of play. Im not looking forward to that right much. I like accrington, we have some amazing people here and fascinating history, and i dont want to follow many others and leave because everyone else just gave up, i cant at least give it my best shot and get involved in my own way. I certainly hope others will too. Thanks for reading if you did. ste @ the Acorn. :alright: |
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thanks for coming on and clearing that up for us ste.... i havent recieved one so im not really sure what people are on about but good luck :D
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I enjoyed it Ste and if you want to cover our success story down at Accrington cricket club drop me a pm and we can sort something out !:)
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hi emamum
thanks for that, and if you do want one, let me know and can arrange it or you can pick one up from the library from thursday. |
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Hi Ste, thanks for that bit of insight into the background of the Acorn. It sounds like it could end up being really interesting as well as practical if enough people contribute to it.
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Thanks for the delivery of Issues 1 & 2 this morning. :)
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got issue1 but have not got issue 2 as yet, looking forward to the classifieds.
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Could do to encourage people to place some serious classifieds but I'm wondering if they would be taken seriously amongst the spoof ones.
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Ain't recieved 1 or 2 so i'm no wiser:confused:
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