Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

what the hell is happening to the coppice... it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched.. now there are so called improvements taking place which seem to involve making tame paths which were uncalled for and making a general muddy bog out of it all.. don't tell me it offers access .. I cant climb trees but no one has offered me a gibbon

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

what the hell is happening to the coppice... it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched.. now there are so called improvements taking place which seem to involve making tame paths which were uncalled for and making a general muddy bog out of it all.. don't tell me it offers access .. I cant climb trees but no one has offered me a gibbon

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

what the hell is happening to the coppice... it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched.. now there are so called improvements taking place which seem to involve making tame paths which were uncalled for and making a general muddy bog out of it all.. don't tell me it offers access .. I cant climb trees but no one has offered me a gibbon

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

. it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched..

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085774)

bloody typical.. the response I expected..

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085778)

great moving staircases up great gable perhaps while were at it lets get rid of all those tricky places were people find if difficult to get to.. lets make it civilised and easy and doff our caps and tug our forelocks to the funding that has made it possible.. pah I have no need to sulk old timer,, simply because I don't really care what the opinion is

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085778)

great moving staircases up great gable perhaps while were at it lets get rid of all those tricky places were people find if difficult to get to.. lets make it civilised and easy and doff our caps and tug our forelocks to the funding that has made it possible.. pah I have no need to sulk old timer,, simply because I don't really care what the opinion is

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

what the hell is happening to the coppice... it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched..

Why are people walking dogs more important than the majority of us? Most of the people who go up there probably just want a pleasant walk.

don't tell me it offers access ..Why not? It does.

I cant climb trees but no one has offered me a gibbon

No need.You seem quite capable of gibbering yourself.

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085778)

great moving staircases up great gable

What an excellent idea, I haven't been able to get up there for years!

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085666)

what the hell is happening to the coppice... it was once one of the few places people could walk locally with dogs that seemed relatively untouched.. now there are so called improvements taking place which seem to involve making tame paths which were uncalled for and making a general muddy bog out of it all.. don't tell me it offers access .. I cant climb trees but no one has offered me a gibbon

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085774)

bloody typical.. the response I expected..

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085778)

pah I have no need to sulk old timer,, simply because I don't really care what the opinion is

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1085792)

Excuse me? Would you like a Gibbon? It is house trained, has very good manners and likes both human and canine company.

You could perhaps learn a great deal from it about interacting with others?




I take it then that you re-read your starting post and realised the sort of response it deserved?


For someone that doesn't need to sulk you seem to give a good impression of doing just that!

If you don't care about other peoples opinions why post at all?



Nobody here would miss your input, it makes very little sense and isn't even close to being humorous.


Please place your next rant in the next available space below:-

Originally Posted by floodlight (Post 1085778)

great moving staircases up great gable perhaps while were at it lets get rid of all those tricky places were people find if difficult to get to.. lets make it civilised and easy and doff our caps and tug our forelocks to the funding that has made it possible.. pah I have no need to sulk old timer,, simply because I don't really care what the opinion is

Originally Posted by Susie123

Several of us "old timers" on here can remember when there were no trees on the Coppice but we have learnt to live with them.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1085915)

Several of us "old timers" on here can remember when there were no trees on the Coppice but we have learnt to live with them. So things move on as they always have.

Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1085920)

There's a bit of a clue in the name Coppice as to what the hill looked like back in the day Susie. :)

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1085942)

There is a thread about the origin of the name, somewhere onsite, can't find it at the mo', tapatalk lousy for searches, but, it isn't what you think.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1085943)

This thread - last 2 pages
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-59646-13.html

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1085943)

This thread - last 2 pages
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-59646-13.html

Originally Posted by yerself (Post 1085918)

Didn't know you could see 'em from Morecambe.:D

Originally Posted by redbrickbathinyard (Post 1085995)

Well your lucky, we have just discovered today that there is going to be a enormous 35metre wind turbine errected just off Willows lane, smack bang on the little bit of green belt we have left in this area.

So next time you are up the coppice you should be able to see the turbine, hopefully you won't get one up there.

Originally Posted by yerself (Post 1085918)

Didn't know you could see 'em from Morecambe.:D

Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1085959)

Thanks Margaret an interesting read, nonetheless all the area was forested at one time stretching all the way to the forest of Bowland....coppicing in terms of managing that woodland makes more sense ....and we have acorns on our coat of arms.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1086003)

You don't coppice oaks.

Originally Posted by Michael1954 (Post 1086021)

Well I'm no expert but a quick Google of Coppice Oak suggests you can, but correct me if I am wrong.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1085999)

If Peter Britcliffe had his way we would have had a panopticon on the top of the coppice

Originally Posted by redbrickbathinyard (Post 1085995)

Well your lucky, we have just discovered today that there is going to be a enormous 35metre wind turbine errected just off Willows lane, smack bang on the little bit of green belt we have left in this area.

So next time you are up the coppice you should be able to see the turbine, hopefully you won't get one up there.

Originally Posted by Michael1954 (Post 1086021)

Well I'm no expert but a quick Google of Coppice Oak suggests you can, but correct me if I am wrong.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1086028)

OK I didn't say you can't, I said you didn't. Oak is usually left as the standards among which the coppice crop is grown and cut down on a relatively short cycle and the oak can be cut on a longer cycle... sorry it's geting a bit late for lucid explanations...:(