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jumping from the other thread about Eastern Promise restaurant on the site of the Hyndburn pub , can anyone tell me what pubs are still in existance on the stretch from Church lights to Accy center , I have read on here the Commercial and the Antley are now long gone , is the Oaktree? (across from the bottom of Newark St. still there ? what about the Globe , still there or long gone ? .......guess it a long dry walk
thanks

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The Last Orders (used to be the George) The Imperial, The Spread Eagle, The Railway, The Calder and the Regency i think thats about it, everything else is closed


oh and Platts is still there

The Oaktree closed a while ago, The Globe is closed too i think, thats been an awful dive as long as i can remember

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the only one i can think of on blackburn rd now is the old george pub near traffic lights....all the rest are shut:(

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them as well;).......the ones up top nr church are all gone

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Sounds like there have been lots of changes , so basically there is nowhere in the area bounded in between Church and the street to Corporation Bus depot , Blackburn Rd. and Hyndburn Rd for anyone to get a pint , lot of people live in that area (all those streets around St Andrews Church), what do they drink ?

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i live in Blackburn now SJ, i'm sure Less or Mick will be able to tell you more

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That area has a high muslim population - who don't drink alcohol

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the only pubs these days is in town:(
it mainly full of asians now, maybe thats why:idunno:

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We have the regency, calder, railway, imperial, globe, last orders, platts and the one near the traffic lights at church but think its closed. Miners is closed now and its set to become the new blackburn road car park... sorry i meant A-Z car parts.

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nags head?

I remember my 18th celebration which I joined with my best mate. We started near town and worked along BBurn road. We were lushed by the time we got to teh Antley. By the time we got to church we were bouncing off walls. Good night though!!! :D

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Oh yeah that place too lol.

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There used to be the miners.until that closed

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the Last Orders was the Royal before it became the George, thats the pub steeljack will remember. the Big Crown is long gone sadly. the Nags Head could be classed as one, even though the doors on School Street, for steeljacks benifit the Regency was the Commercial (accy centre) the church one is long gone, as are the Oak Tree, the Antley which became a muslim girls school.;)

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So far as Church itself is concerned Only the Thorne left open and rumours are thats to shut in a couple of weeks which will just leave the Club as a watering hole, things are looking dismal!
:(

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...and then there's the pubs on the streets off Blackburn Road...the Langs Arms, the Palatine, the Union...cracking little boozers ever one of 'em and all sadly gone. :(

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Now compare with Baxenden, how many pubs were there in Bash that have closed down? I'm not aware of any.

Is it just that Bashers are a bunch of drunken bums? :D

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as i did the Dog @Partrigde for 6 yrs n Alma for 2 i would say YES:D but think its more to do with the number of Asians who live in Accy, cos most of em dont drink.;)

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Ah, but that's because you can't remember back to the 60's/70's. Used to be an excellent watering hole when Doreen ran it.

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was on the friday night crawl in 60s:) then back to the black bull,was a good boozer then.;)

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Has the Bridge (Church) closed too?

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the pubs in ossy will be next:(

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Not as far as I know.

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Ossy only has a fraction to what it used to have (34 in all ) i think from the black dog to the commercial.

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yes this closed last friday also closed is the tanpits (plough) now
sorry got it wrong its this friday it shuts

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Not a single pub in Church :eek::eek:
Good local pubs were the only saving grace for the poor souls living there.
(I once was one of them :( )

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cashman must lnow my older brother he was landlord at the dog and partridge baxenden for two years and went to live in a house for a while facing the alma when he came out the pub

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he was not the landlord for the 6 yrs i worked there keith, was kev n june, but i lived on Bamford Crescent for a while n bash was my haunt at the time, so could well do? many know me but i can never remember em all.;)

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where?

i didnt know there was 34:eek:

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theres a list on a thread somewhere panther,have a root you'll be suprised.:)

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They're all on here, guys. :)

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...stle-6644.html

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so has the Nags Head closed ? Sorry just seen Cashman's post,referring to Nags Head.

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no the nags head has been done up and is open upto now never been in though

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Well worth a visit. Although it's been renovated, it still has a traditional feel about it.

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we have had a accyweb meet in the railway which is just down the road and has been done up too it has a good smoke area

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Must admit, the last time I was in the Railway about ten years ago, it was a bit of a dive. I'll make a visit there on my next pub inspection tour! :D

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blackburn road sounds like a temperance walk these days my parents had the langs arms and then dale st club in the late sixties
when you are describing the george pub was that originally the royal at the opposite corner to the globe at the bottom of scaitcliffe st
thanks tony

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Yes Tony that's the one.

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Used to go in the Royal now and again way back when. A lad called Lawson who was in my class at school lived there. However, the Lang's Arms was my favourite in that area. Out of the house, through the "underground" and hey presto! first refreshment stop of the evening! :thepint:

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the Langs was always last port of call before the friday night dance at the miners, which was a good night until the bouncers bounced me.:D

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Think we should have a run down of how many pubs Cashy was banned from .. probably more than he was allowed into by the sound of it... :D

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Ah but the miners was a club in those days, n that was the only 1 (i can think of:D) now pubs ......................:D

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Yes ?? we are waiting.

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well ya can wait, but i will say my best mate, could not enter a pub on blackburn rd. between Accrington Commercial (regency now) n Intack Traffic lights, now that beat me hands down.:tongueout

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Would that be who I think it might be, Mr C? ;)

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it certainly would,spot on.;)

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A nice bloke, but not one to start taking liberties with. Incidentally, I assume the establishments he was banned from on Blackburn Road included the Azad? ;)

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Do I know this chap, Cashy?

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yep thats the one;) vaugly margaret only since ya lived up there i would guess.:D wyn remembers from way back.lol

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thanks for the answer about the royal and the other info I can't actually remember the dancing at the miners was that late sixties
thanks
tony

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Even thats closed now :D

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Some people go to the Bridge (near the sports centre) The Stag is closed as is the tanpits (its been re-named the plough) The Queens is closed. The Hyndburn is now called Eastern Promise (A kind of Indian Restaurant). The Miners is also now closed

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i went late 60s early 70s Tony, after approx 71 i cant say how long it continued.:)

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Just a footnote, the Bridge closed the 11th .. last Friday (not the 4th) was supposed to close on the 4th, but closure was extended due to the fact that they got a late delivery of Christmas beer, so customers had to sup up :D

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it would be around that time that the land lady was murdered
if my memory serves me well was always a good drinking place
one that opened during the day when pubs shut for the afternoon :cool:

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I'm getting confused here thru the 'mists of time' where was the Miners club in relation to Blackburn Rd. I know where Dale St. club and Bulloughs club were , but i'm lost on the the Accy Miners club , .........remember Burnley Miners club well , first time I ever saw a stripper , and was well 'gobsmacked' ..........a callow innocent youth of 16/17 seeing a woman in her late30's , early 40's stripping off whilst dancing with a python ......enough to corrupt a lad for life :D :confused: :D

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Miners club was at the top of Lister St next to the Grammer School (now long gone and houses built there) it was on same side as Boulloughs and before you get to Dale St. Hope that helps OH and the Post office was on the other side of the road if that helps.

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Thanks Ber999T , just checked the location out on Google Earth and I must have walked by the place a thousand times but have no reccolection have ever going in , Lived on Newark st. when I first got wed and did evening classes at the 'old' grammer school , it was an annex for Accy Tech on Sandy lane , an ex wife lived on Lina st. , Junetta (Accy web member lived on Holland St.;) ;) and an old flame (Linda something ) lived on Rutland St. ) so I kind of know the area but have no memory whatsoever of the Miners club .......Junetta help me out here :D :D

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I used to live on Rutland st it has all gone now to make way for the medical centre
these are some of the photo's i took of them pulling Rutland st down i lived at number 2 bottom house on the left as you go up from blackburn road
one sunday morning me and a friend found a new born baby dumped on a back ally step the police named her Alice .
http://www.accringtonweb.com/gallery...ry.php?cat=620

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thanks mick for the attachments to the fotos , junetta and myself have chatted online about how much we would want to go/come back and check out the area just for sentimental reasons , but facing up to reality , you can never go back and life moves on, the thread has just got me wondering (probably should be a new thread) now how many couples who got married there and made their way back to check out Sacred Heart Church before it was pulled down ,
any Accy web members want to comment ? and how did you feel ?
thanks

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yep a new thread in Nostalgia aint what it used to be... would be good and i could upload some of the 100 photo's i have of them pulling the church down

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Thanks beechy
that's what I was confused about May Rothera the stewardess that was murdered was a relative but I can't remember any dancing only concerts at that time
thanks a lot
tony

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:confused:twas a sad loss at the time
more recently and a slight wander
im almost sure may's son david passed away

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yep he did, was called D. was an old mate from the 60s.

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spent a lot of time with him in the 70s
marlboro club good all round guy and a good icecream seller

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we have brought up quite a bit of grief here David's older brother Tony died just a couple of years ago he was a grand lad and and like david was only only young
hope my posts get a bit more cheerier from now on
tony

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can enyone say if the bridge at church has shut

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Yes - see post#24 in this thread

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and there was the AEU (?) Club near the station where Accrington Pride is now. Used to open Sunday afternoons if I remember

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ah forgot the AEU, used to have a good friday night disco/dance in early 70s.;)

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Not actually Blackburn Rd. Accrington but Blackburn Rd. Rising Bridge, Many years ago there used to be a pub at bottom of Hazel Street (opposite Hollands) does anyone know what it was called or how I can find out, It was probably more than 60 years ago. (Maybe this should be in Questions and answers but just posted in the forum on pubs.)

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I remember the dog and partridge when Maureen and Harold had it Jim Robertson had the bay horse and John and Sandra had the alma back in the 80s

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Harold n Maureen used to come in Dog regular, after they came out Kevin @ June took oer from em,Did disco fer em fer 6 yrs.:)

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I used to go in both the Dog (when Harold had it) and the Bay too, John and Sandra had the Coach and Horses (I worked behind the bar there) before they took the Alma, sadly John died about 3 years ago, not sure where Sandra is now the last I heard of her she was working behind the bar in Bash Con

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The only pub in Church is The Thorn although the Cross Guns opens and closes every few weeks. The Imperial is now closed. The Bridge pub in Church is only half standing and there is Monte Cristo's in Church but you can't really call it a pub.

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Fancy closing down Pubs, the cheek of it, is nothing Sacred. Clubs will be next - mark my words.

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Yer well out of it keith,Clubs have been closing fer many years,Miners, Dale St,Willows Lane, Tanpits,Straights, Top Club, Just to name a few,

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you can add king street and pioneer clubs to the list cashy

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Spring Hill.

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Sacred Heart club , Band Club , Central

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Strange isn't it?

We had all these places we could go, yet the ones that have grown up after us, have fewer outlets but are called binge drinkers.
We didn't need taxis back then, we could fall out of one drinking hole straight into another.

Perhaps we need to start a Charity?

I've got the slogan:-

"Buy a man a pint, and he has the taste of the good life, build a man a local and he'll sup all day".

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Tanpits was the Pioneer mate, but you foreigners wouldn't know that.:D

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Anybody know if the Stanhill Club is still open?

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Was a few weeks back.

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Cheers Cashy

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I never knew that the Tanpits (In Church) and the Pioneer were one and the same. Another blow to my fading memory

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Also the Tanpits pub just around the corner - the only beer house I knew.

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Not really keith, yeh clocked out in 64, I didn't know it was when i was a young un, was only when i lived in Church in early 70s i found out.;)One club long gone no-one seems to have mentioned,was the Salubrious "Central Club" in accy centre, spent many n happy hour in yon.

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See post #79 / ;) .

Anyway , I always pictured you as a Temperance Bar person . :D

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Ah missed that.:o Irish League n Church Con were others,

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Wasn't that tiny pub on Abbey Street a beer house Barrie, twas on the left had side looking towards Hassy, was only the width of a normal house, can't think what it was called though:confused:

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working mens clubs were always clicky and treated women as second class with stupid rules like no women in snooker rooms etc and only allowed in at weekends,this and the loss of the working man has put an end to them.not before time if you ask me.

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They moved on from that.
I was a committee member at the Pioneer club for a few years, and there were other ladies on the committee too.

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That's why it closed down:D

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Is that the one just past the traffic lights, almost opposite Warner Street?

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I got part of the Sacred Heart in me garden :-).....well a couple of stones

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There was a pub called The Beehive, now a private house. Same side as Hollands.

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Think that could be The Duke of Wellington.

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Nags Head closed down yesterday after a rebirth for almost 10 years.

The Calder was shut too.