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Well, today in pictures, was a sudden rush of blood to my head. I thought lets have a look at Gamblers Caves, What a disappointment that was. I will upload the picturesque stuff later.

1. Its over that hill and far away, we were on the coppice.
2. that hill lies between me, and the hill I have to climb.
3. I just realised , I'm to old for this game!
4. Where did this steep bit come from?
5. Stopping for a moment to get my breath back, I looked back where we had travelled from.
6. This is the Kings Highway.
7. At last my end is in sight, should have worn better trousers.
8. Gamblers Caves has become a hole in the ground.
9. And a tip.
10. Time to turn around and return home.

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Slightly more picturesque Today in Pictures.

1. Looking over the coppice and beyond.
2. He makes this jumping over styles look easy, well he would I have to lift him.
3. Spire Farm, I used to help out here occasionally when it was a working farm. The Hardy's had it then.
4. Why are the steep bits always uphill?
5. There it is Hameldon, but it doesn't feel like a hill.
6. Another bit, that is either up or down.
7. I'm going to lick that, it might be gingerbread.
8. Up a hill looking down.
9. I climb all the way up here, and still find dumped rubbish!
10. Back on the coppice again.

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You certainly get around Dave, I love your daily reports!

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I have to keep moving, the police are after me, but keep that to yourself.

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Today in Flowers, a bit sparse due to todays location.

1. A lone Rhododendron on the top of the Coppice.
2. Cotton grass, again on the Coppice.
3. Brooms, view behind is Manchester Road leading to Baxenden.
4.Variety of Dock with some type of winged insect.
5. Moss growing on Hameldon.
6. A thistle with bursting buds.
7. Lichen on the top of a wall.
8. Vetch, just off the footpath.
9. Bramble, included to show the spines.
10. Larch cones, back on the Coppice again.

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Love these flower pics especially the thistle.

Isn't that "variety of dock" what is commonly known as bistort?

Your Bob is looking very trim. Has he just had a haircut?

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I'm not sure of the variety of dock, I just went off the leaf, not a specialist in wild flowers, but I get by.

No, he has not had a trim, he is halfway to his next one.

Looked out of the window and it is persistant rain, so its waterproofs again today.

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other names for it is snakeweed/dragonwort.....and it can be used as an astringent, and it is supposed to be good for treating catarrh and diarrhoea....or at least a concoction of the root is.
Enjoy your wet walk.
I feel a bit deprived. I was going to go out and look at what was going on for the Jubilee Celebrations in Mercer Park, and take some pics - somehow, I don't think there will be much happening in the way of picnics and the like.

I was also going to photograph the local street party - but that also looks unlikely now. Drat!

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Yes, pretty sure it's bistort, I have some of the cultivated sort in my garden. It's not actually in the dock genus most of which have pretty insignificant greenish flowers.

Well trimmed or not Bob is looking pretty good, can the same be said for his human??

Raining here too, only just found out (you wouldn't think we lived here!) that Morecambe is attempting to break the record for the longest street party today. If it goes as far as they hope we should be able to see it from our house as it will be going along the prom and past the gap between the houses through which we can see the prom and the sea. I wonder if it will get that far in the rain. We might take a wander down if the rain stops otherwise I will be watching the Thames pageant on TV.

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It is always the same when you plan a jaunt, the weather always has the last word.

Flickr: davemac43's Photostream Thanks to Mrs. P. and her guidance, I now have a flicker page, and on it, is one of Bob when he really requires a haircut.

Up to now I have managed to remain incognito, but I am aware that Mrs.P. is ready with camera to capture my image should our paths cross.
Although with my flat cap on I do look like Fred Dibnah

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You are most welcome Dave. You have some very good pics on there. I would encourage those who take a peek at the snaps to leave a comment.....it is always encouraging to see people have looked at your snaps - even better when they tell you that they like them.

There are some on your flickr pages that I am envious of.

As for recognition...it might be Bob that gives it away.

I suppose you are too young to remember Lobby Lud........an advertising gimmick used many years ago by the Daily Mail....you had to be carrying a Daily Mail, accost the fellow with the phrase 'I believe you are Lobby Lud, I claim my ten bob' mind you that was when ten bob was worth something. :D

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Well decided to go out in the wet and get a few piccys before coming back to watch the pageant on TV.

Here goes... they're a bit grey but it's a record of part of my day and perhaps a record day for Morecambe.

1 An indication of the weather
2 Hotels on the front and a few flags
3 Gardens on the front
4 The Town Hall - a crown of flowers and the Union flag
5 Hope the party gets this far...
6 We're British, we don't mind the rain...
7 These boats didn't make it to the Thames...
8 The street party went all this way along the prom, at least

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Part 2, including a few flowers

1 Looks more like a jumble sale
2 I don't have a Bob but I do have a Richard - think he needs a trim too
3 Our neighbour all dressed up with somewhere to go - his auntie organised the party
4 Think this hotel wishes it were by the English Channel
5 Home again - this is our back lane and the back of our house
6 Close up of the floral crown
7 Wild flowers in the old cemetery behind the house
8 Spanish daisies on the garden wall
9 Welsh poppy on the back lane
10 Lilies in the house, I don't normally keep them on the cooker but it was a plain background!

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Dave I have looked at your Flickr pics and they are lovely. Beatnik Bob is hard to beat.

Margaret I was going to leave a comment but it asked me to sign in to Yahoo so I didn't.

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Yes, I think you have to sign up to Flickr(I think when I first joined you could leave a comment as a guest), but I have never had any spam from them.
Ah, well the thought was there.

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I suppose you are too young to remember Lobby Lud........an advertising gimmick used many years ago by the Daily Mail....you had to be carrying a Daily Mail, accost the fellow with the phrase 'I believe you are Lobby Lud, I claim my ten bob' mind you that was when ten bob was worth something. :D[/quote]

I remember Lobby Ludd, Workers playtime, Radio Luxemberg, kids of today wouldnt understand.

[quote=susie123;995673]Dave I have looked at your Flickr pics and they are lovely. Beatnik Bob is hard to beat.

Thanks for looking, still got a lot to upload yet, but time is the key here.

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PART 1. Today in Pictures, is very much a walk on the wet side.

1. After coming off the canal, down through Barnes Square.
2. Down Barnes Street, towards Gt Harwood.
3. Over the bridge.
4. Arrived in Gt Harwood, heading up the old railway line, now a cycle and walking track.
5. LOOK, i'm wet, fed up, wet, tired, wet, grumpy, wet, TAKE ME HOME NOW.
6.Heading towards the Tottleworth turn off.
7. Down the steps to go under the old railway bridge and along Tottleworth Road.
End of part one.

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Poor Bob........he looks most dischuffed to be out in the rain.
I haven't stirred over the doorstep today.
I feel really sorry for those people who had planned a picnic in the park or a street party....what a let down for them.

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That might have been Dave talking to Bob Margaret...

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Part two. Today in Pictures, I've started so I will finish.
8. Under the bridge.
9. The old road bridge, now closed to traffic.
10. Up the hill to the village.
11. Bit further up the hill.
12. Looking back down the hill.
13. Up the "brew" from the "Rishton Dip"
14. "Dunk way" lights, you don't know the trouble I had clearing the junction of traffic, my case comes up next week.

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I only had the picture of Bob to go off....and he looked a bit fed up....but you could be right:D.

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Today in Flowers, well sort off.
1. Its everywhere at the moment, Dog Rose.
2. A cherry forming on an ornamental cherry.
3. Buttercup.
4. London Pride.
5. Water on a waxy leaf.
6. You cant get it to grow on a lawn, but up a tree no probs.
7. Rhododendrons, again they are everywhere at the moment.
8. Cotoneaster.
9. An example of vehicular pruning on a tree.

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Photos taken on a walk around Higher Brox Farm and Spire Farm

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Those cattle look like hay on legs!!

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Nice walk, there is a footpath sign on a gate jamb, do you have to go into somebodys garden?

One or two or those pictures must be smellyvision as I could smell the manure when I looked at them, thanks for the effort.

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There is a public right of way through the gate. I tused to be further up the lane but it was fenced off.

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Part 1.Today in Pictures is a bit of a mystery tour, to me, I sort of knew there was a footpath, didn't exactly know where it went, and didn't know how long it would take.
1. Up the road and turn right.
2. Thats the bridge I think I am going over.
3. Joined the path, motorway to my right, tip to my left.
4. Heading towards the motorway bridge.
5. Over the bridge and through a field.
6. Parallel to the footpath.
7. Forward on the footpath.
8. Very old style, looks a bit like a french urinal, only smaller.
9. I wonder where this goes?
10. This is where it came out, top side of Altham industrial estate.The wrong side of the canal.

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Part 2. Today in flowers the journey continues.

11. Across the field and down to the bridge.
12. I think this is Altham boat yard, it is just short of Altham Lane.
13. Geese looking after young.
14. Fosters Swing bridge, with guard dog.
15. Altham marina, close to Burnley Road, Altham.
16. Don't the kids grow up fast.
17. Gate posts of long ago, and there we are, back onto Blackburn Road and home

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Amazing reflection in pic 2, mirror-still water.

Glad to see Bob's dried out from yesterday, hope you have too!

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Today in flowers, the continuing story of flora and fauna
1. Birdsfoot trefoil.
2. Thorns on a Bramble.
3. Buttercup, there are a lot of them around at the moment.
4. Daisy with pollen.
5. Bee on clover.
6. White clover.
7. Forget me not, growing wild.
8. Ladybird on a nettle.
9. Not sure of this, its often called mayflower but don't know for sure.

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I was fully waterproofed up, so I was tickety boo. Although it was a rubbish day, did they manage to fill those tables in Morecambe?

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I didn't go out again to check but I believe from various news reports they got a good turnout but didn't break the record. Two villages down south joined by a bridge managed to get a longer one.

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Hot off the press - just been up to our attic storey which gives a good view over to Lancaster to see if there was any sign of the beacon at Lancaster Castle. Couldn't see any bonfire but nature's own beacon was in good view.

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Where is picture 5 taken? I need to go there an take a pic

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Yep, I know it as Lady's Smock

Cuckooflower | Biodiversity | TCV Northern Ireland

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Some good pics on here, "BUT" All this walking is leaving me knackered.:D

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Starting with picture 1. this is the traffic lights by the Funeral Parlour, C.L.Moors.
2. Is looking from the motorway bridge towards Burnley, you can see the bridge. 5.This is the bridge in picture 2. and Picture 7. is the view you get from the bridge towards Altham industrial estate.
Hope that didn't confuse, it did me.

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We get out there, so you dont have to. sit back and enjoy

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I did try looking it up, but couldn't find it, looks like I have to get a pocket guide to wild flowers. Thanks for the heads up.

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I am not capable of walking for pleasure, and in the past when I was capable, I was too busy earning a living and running a home.

So I really appreciate these views of our area which I have never seen, nor am likely to ever see in person.

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I am going to get one of these fuji EXR cameras...... it seems to take you to some very pretty places Dave.

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Margaret, some of the views are instantly recognisable, but the indiviuality of the snaps and the perspective from which they are taken lends a 'new eye' to them.
Many of the places that Dave visits are very close to where I live....he makes the place look really picturesque.

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Today began early for me... I took these pictures at 4.30am looking north through our loo window. Red sky in the morning... I'm still waiting for the rain.

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Although my mum was born and raised in London she knew a lot about wild flowers. Sunday afternoons we would go out in the car and then go for a walk. A favourite spot was what we used to call little York near Rishton. We'd look for wimberries in season and pick wild flowers and mum always knew their names. Lady's smock was one of her favourites.

Looking at your pics, there are lots of dog roses - they're still in tight bud here and the two elder trees in the back lane only have a couple of flowers out. Has Clayton moved nearer the tropics?

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Well, it happened......our paths crossed.
There was I coming back from a long hike......when across Blackburn Road I spotted Bob......and Davemac. They were just setting out on their trek.
He pointed at me and said 'Mrs P?' I nodded and he came across the road and we had a little chat. Dave, now you know I'm not a figment of your imagination.
Good to meet you both.
Pics will follow later when the camera battery is recharged.

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Did you claim your ten bob? and was Dave on a lead? :rolleyes:

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Yes, Bob had Dave firmly under control.....and No...I didn't claim my ten bob....I forgot to take my copy of the Daily Mirror.

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Today's flowers - just been for a walk round my garden. Sorry some are a bit fuzzy - don't know if it's me or the camera or the fact that it was starting to rain.

1 Lupin and bee
2 Clematis
3 Another clematis
4 Honeysuckle
5 Oriental poppy ready to burst forth
6 Red hot poker and daisies
7 Chives
8 White foxglove

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Some more flowers

1 Calendula
2 Valerian
3 Honesty

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What a colourful garden

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Thank you Max. Considering I have not touched it since about this time last year for various reasons it is looking splendid. Obviouly neglect is good for it but I have been out there this weekend doing things here and there. I can't paint but I use colour in my garden as if I were trying to do a painting - that's my theory anyway, mostly it just turns out like that whatever I do.

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Been on a bit of a hike......see my blog for details.
Like your pics Sue.Very cheery and colourful.
Now here are my efforts

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Got another for you, I've never noticed it before, it is low to the ground and I was prostrate in a field to get this shot.
My knowledge of wild flowers is sadley lacking, as I spent a lifetime in decorative horticulture.

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Was it painful going prostrate?

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Do you get a lot of butterflies in your garden with such a variety of flowers?

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No I took all my clothes off first, I didn't want mud on my dickey bow tie.

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Damn.....I missed that...would have made a good picture to put on here....with some bits pixelated to preserve your modesty of course. :D

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Is your camera insured?

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I would say it's water avens, Geum rivale, enter it in google images and you will get some lovely pics.

I see from your profile you used to work for the council, were you in Parks & Gardens or whatever it's called?

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Well, sort of........I can claim accidental damage on my contents policy.....but there is a 75 quid excess.

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Yes - quite a few - saw a small blue one the other day that I hadn't seen before. There is also an old cemetery behind the house, with a lot of wild flowers, which helps with the wildlife.

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You are correct I think, it was growing down by Hyndburn Brook in a waterlogged area. I would never have said Geum. It was mixed with the ground elder so couldn't see a leaf. Yes I worked for Parks Dept, then Recreation and Amenities, then Parks and Open Spaces, then Parks and Cemeteries, then Parks and Playing fields. All the same department but it changed with the politics of the council. You put me to shame with your knowledge of wild stuff.
Have to do a family taxi job, will post my pictures when I get back.

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You would have required a good zoom lens, and only require one pixel

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Part 1.Here we go, later than planned, Today in Pictures.
1. Along the canal to Riley's Swing bridge.
2. And there it is.
3. Mooching around an area I think was the air raid shelter site, opposite the swing bridge.
4. Down a smelly bit of the footpath, and onto an unused bit.
5. Well, what a mess.
6. Off the footpath, and towards the lights at junction 7, this is a field off to the right adjacent the slip road to the motorway.
7. Down the dip to the paper mill.Field off to the left.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures.
8. At the start of Clayton Fields Trail.
9. Remains of a stone slab fence.
10. Hyndburn Brook as it travels past the shooting range.
11. Looking across to Gt. Harwood from the farm.
12. And there we are "up" Checkers, back on the canal, and home

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Well apart from my mum's knowledge when I was young, I lived in the depths of the country, virtually in the middle of a field, for 18 years till 2000. I learnt quite a lot about wild flowers then.

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Today in Flowers, it grows on you.
1. Thistles.
2. Thistles with a bit of colour.
3. Cuckooflower.
4. Ragged Robin.
5. Geum (thanks to Susie for the name)
6. Potentilla.
7. Potentilla with weevil.
8. Peony.
9. A wall growing all sorts of "stuff" with a big Campanula.
10. Bistort.(I didnt know this either)

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I took these pictures on Lidl car park yesterday morning.

Peacock in all his glory | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Profile of the peacock | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Won't let me post the pics on here so I have posted the links to my flickr page

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Are there many peacocks on Hyndburn Road, Margaret?

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Its due to the tropical climate we enjoy in Hyndburn, we are mucked up with peacocks, they are a bit of a pest really, and lets not talk about the flocks of parrots

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I don't know, but I have heard them calling when I have been going to Lidl....so there must be at least two of them........and if I remember rightly Less put something on the forum about the noise and the nuisance that cause.

They might be a nuisance, but they are really beautiful.
I went to Leeds castle and I followed the peacocks around trying to get one to display his magnificent tail feathers for me......to no avail. And I go and capture this picture in Accrington......maybe this should be in 'ood a thowt it'.

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Today in Pictures, was a bit rushed so had to do it "on the fly", it was a short walk followed by shopping.
1. Down the road to the canal.
2. Level with the canal on the main road.
3. Bit of arty reflections........When.
4. A barge trying to break Donald Campbell's record hurtled past.
5. One day all this will be houses.
6. Off the canal and through the Petre Industrial Estate.
7. Back onto Blackburn Road passed the gate to Narnia.
8. Down passed the roundabout.
9. I could stamp my foot when I see all the lazy people leaving trolleys all over the place.

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Great pics .... love 'em ... spent a lot of time in Mercer Park as a kid ... my grandad once told me that the angel on the memorial was pointing the way to the bog:D A tad disrespectful, maybe, but my grandad didn't seem to think so. That's my grandad as my avatar ... I suppose a wounded veteran of the Somme and Paschendale is allowed a little levity.;)

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I thought about you yesterday Eric....as I was walking past the houses on Charles St......and down the fields towards Rishton bottoms.
I wondered what you would make of it now.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying Davemacs ramblings(I mean the walks) and pictorial evidence.
Great pics Dave...again!

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heres tonites sunset ...

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I wonder which bog was the one being pointed to, you cant find them anymore, they have all been knocked down.

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I prefer to think of them as meanderings for a wondering mind. Or an attempt to look "Windswept and Interesting, but just managing "Bedraggled and Gormless.

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Thanks for joining in, you have to tell us how you managed to get the colours, I've tried it and got mixed results.

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thanks dave .. its actually what was up there ... i just pointed the camera and prayed that theyd come out right ... did stick em thro photoshop to focus and resize em and that was that .. tho they were took on the bright sun and snow mode on the camera ... oh and no flash ...

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Very interesting, will have to check were that is on my camera, rather than auto mode.

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Probably the one at the bus stop by the Forts, if it's still there ... the bus stop that is, not the Forts. That was one disgusting bog. Worse even than the bogs at Accy Grammar.:D

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Hey ... what's happnin'? I really don't know the answer. I'm def. a bottom ender ... but one theory has it that the Load was the dividing line. And another, the bridge over the cut on Whalley Rd. ... that would be the Albion/Con Club line. One thing that confuses me though is that there might have been a "middle" .... I know there was a Middle Club, and I hear that there is still a Bottom Club.:confused: There may have been a Top Club ... but I neither know, nor do I care. Top Enders are way beyond the pale.;):D

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That describes me to a T.......but I have got to the point in my life where it really doesn't matter that much anymore.......dogs, cats and animals in general don't really care what you look like - they appreciate your kindness.
It is only some humans who measure you by how you look.

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Great shots Jen. We had a colourful sunset here as well, but the only way I would be able to get it....... was out of the bedroom window.(was in my PJ's when I spotted it).

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The Top club was just before Traffic lights at the Greyhound,opposite side Dave, The Middle Club was the Come @ Welcome, Bottom Club behind the Forts Arms.;)

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Are you sure about the Bottom Club? ... I seem to remember its being on Bayley St., just down from the Village Blacksmith. Was in there a couple of times with Basil Brierly and his lad. I know the Middle Club ... used to go on their annual outing to Blackpool.:D

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It is Eric, used to go in the village way back, which i always regarded as behind the Forts.;) By the way was Basils Lad "Alan"?

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I remember the Top club opposite the Greyhound.When I was very young we used to go and visit my aged great great uncle who lived in the row of houses joined on to it. We used to wait for the bus outside the club and I remember the bronze bust of Edward VII in the front garden of the club.

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One of me mates lived on that row also,:) used to go n stand yon to watch the "Whit Walks"

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Me too Cashy! My Uncle Ted lived at number 14, between the chippy and the greengrocer. He died in 1957 and I remember watching Six Five Special in the greengrocers with the boy who lived there. That prog started Feb 1957 - I was ten at the time.

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No, it was Tony. I forget how many kids Basil and his old lady had ... but, they were Catholics;):D Basil was a real character. I remember him and his horse and cart ... and the stuff he had in his junk yard off Lower Barnes St. would be worth a fortune today. I remember that he had a whole bunch of those cast iron fire places ... that would be at the time when folks were tossing those in favour of those little tiled things:mad: A great guy that Basil ... used to buy me the odd pint (good Dutton's ale) in the Village. Sometimes he smelled a little ripe, but that was only when he had been mucking out the pigs he used to keep on his allotment back of our place on Rishton Rd.:D

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rising bridge bout half an hour ago ...:eek:

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Not a hot curry at the Spice Room then? BTW those sunset pics were stunning - thanks.

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I always thought that the top end finished at the canal bridge, the middle went down to the Forts and that is where the bottom started.
At Mount Pleasant the school was divided into two houses Enfield which finished at the canal bridge,and Hyndburn which covered all below.
Does anyone remember going on trips with the clubs if your dad was a member usually Southport.

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You know, hon, I don't think I would like it now. I believe that I prefer the memories to the realities. Just took a walk thru Mercer Park with Mr. Google ... and those swings:eek: How can the kids of fun on tame things like they have now? In my day (ok., I'm getting a little Old Fartish, I know) they had real things for us to play on. And I still have a scar between my eyes to prove it. And I got my arse tanned for getting hurt;) Some of the things we did (I think I mentioned waxing the slide in another thread) would have the health and safety nazis soiling their gotchies:D

Used to walk those fields all the time ... they still had a stile at the end of Rishton Rd. so that folks wouldn't have to open the gate. In my day, there was still a working farm there ... Ringstonhalgh ... maybe it's still there. There used to be wild blackberries to pick, and the birds nesting was fun ... and there was another danger waiting down by the Stink: an old frayed rope you could swing on out over the toxic waste.

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nope .. the way the firemen were nosying round the engine would say it had caught fire .. theyd kicked everyone off the bus ..

thanks susie and margaret ... :D

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Middle Club went to Blackpool ... a ride up the Tower, and the Circus with Charlie Cairoli and Paul ... and a quick tour of the zoo. And on the way there ... 2/6d for the first kid to spot the Tower.:D Two and a kick went a long ways back then. Only went one year to Mount Pleasant ... my mom took me out and sent me to All Sinners ... I think it had something to do with her belting a teacher who made me eat figs, which I promptly threw up all over the lunch table.:s_sick: