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I've heard a lot of Ossy Mills. I guess it is in Oswaldtwistle,where, and what type of shopping is it?.

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It's a converted cotton mill

Oswaldtwistle Mills - Shopping Centres / Shopping Outlets & Tourist Attractions in England, Days Out In The UK

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There's something for everybody really, I like Stockleys Sweets myself:D

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I was a weaver, and whilst the kids were growing up, i did part time night work at that mill on Moscow Mill St

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ossy and over priced :)

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The mill on moscow mill st wasn't ossy mills irene, the mill yeh on about was directly facing Pickups Arms i think.:)

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According to wikipedia Leigh has a population of 43,000 and Accrington has a population of 35,000 which makes Accrington just over 3/4 the population of Leigh.

Darwen has a population of 31,500 so is closer to Accrington in size, what's it's market and shopping centre like?

Bury is often mentioned as having a good market/shopping centre with a population of almost 61,000.

It's not just the number though, you have to look at the spending power of those people. That is what the retailers look at when they decide if they want to move into or leave Accrington

Chorley is smaller than Accrington by about 3,000 but I suspect will have more spending power

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darwen may be closer to accy in size but darwen dosnt have an abhorant arndale center ,tescos and asda supermarkets

they have just got a morrisons a few years back so the destruction of tehir town center may be in the early stages but up until that point darwens indoor market and side street shops were more than adequate for a town of its size

its just a pitty our council didnt realise the same and stopped trying to make accrington to be something it isnt

the arndale didnt attract buisness to accrington it simply moved them from broadway into teh arndale and then a couple of years later the big names moved to whitebirk taking shoppers to blackburn

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It did have a name but i can't remember. It's many moons ago.

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Yeh not alone, i used to know the name but i forgot n its one i should remember without any doubt, but thats another story.:D

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think it used to be £1 to get in to see the worlds largest pear drop.


i thought it was a bargain until i was told you couldnt lick it :(

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Its nowt like the Stockleys when Wilf & his brother owned it, back in the 1960's

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When the were down Church Walter

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I think the name of the mill was Enfield.
My dad was a tackler there for a few years before he retired.

Katex would know because she worked at Ossy Mills, but she doesn't come here much now.

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Aint on about the ossy mills mill Margaret, I worked at Enfield in 60s, on about the name of mill that faced the Pickups Arms.;)