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a quote from another thread said .............

"I remember buying the record at Mary's music on Whalley Rd."
....was that the place adjacent to the motor-cycle shop which sold Lambretta and Vespa parts ? opposite a Lion pub , (The Hope and Anchor ?) I also remember a great pub up one of the streets behind there somewhere, I think somewhere near Emerson and Renwicks , had one of the best jukeboxes in town ......this would be the late 60's, it was part of our Friday night crawl

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The pub with the jukebox could it be the New Brewery Inn?, The motorbike shop no longer sells Vespa and Lambretta parts, it is all Japanese stuff now. The Hope and Anchor is still going strong!

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New Brewery...Pickwick...Blockade...Bridge...Derby. I could do it in my sleep!

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anyone know if there is a map in any of these threads showing the location of past and present pubs and clubs ?
thx John

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Thats a great idea.

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Its Not a Map but it might help

http://www.pubutopia.com/pubs/A/Accrington/index.html

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think you mean the new brewery they had a great jukebox, was the start of a good little tour lol (1)new brewery (2)royal oak (3) st johns (4) great eastern (5) boars head (6) broadway (7)hope and anchor (8) castle (9) back to brewery, and you had only been around a couple of blocks.:D

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Thanks Mick and Cashman for the info
Yep , it was the New Brewery I was thinking of , looking at the pub link site it seems some of the towncenter pubs have been renamed.
There used to be (maybe still is)another good pub in the area behind the Canine club ,Plantation st area, if I remember it was on a street parallel to Abbey st. could have been a Massey house
Is the Antley still in business (corner of Newark st. and Blackburn rd.) near to the Accy/Church border ?
thank John

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Are you thinking of the Old House At home on Melbourne Street, opposite the old Manchester bus stop? That was a Masseys House. Alternatively it could be the Queens, but I don't think that was ever a Masseys House, was it?

The Antley is long gone - last time I went past it, it was a muslim girl's school. Another sad loss is the Block - what a cracking pub that was when Joyce and Eddie Berry had it!

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I used to go to my Gran's in Sheffield for the school hols.....we would go down to Melbourne St to catch the Manchester bus well too early....Gran would leave me at the bus stop with the bags and nip into the Old House at Home for a pint of mild. I was always told not to tell my mum about this little trick of hers....my reward...half a crown bribery money.
Gran used to say that the mild was good for her kidneys....well it must have been because she was always busting for a P when we got to the bus station at Manchester!

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not the Old House at Home , looking at an old map I have it could have been on Lee st. ?

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Spent many a happy hour in the Old House At Home, Margaret.

Steeljack, are you thinking of the Kings Arms?

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yep think thats the one ..........thanks
anyone remember the Greyhound on Whalley rd near top of Dill Hall , they used to have some local bands playing , trying to remember the band Jon Anderson played with before he moved on to greater things

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The Warriors...they've already been discussed on here but I can't remember where the thread is now.

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What about corners as well? that used to be on our crawl after Hope and Anchor and Broadway, don`t really remember corners that much, hmm maybe my memory was impaired by the alcohol?

Mary`s music - used to love browsing through the singles there, and you used to be able to play the older ones to 'check' it was the one you wanted. I think all my mid 80`s records came from there, and what was the other one called was it Reidy`s? up near top of little blackburn Road?

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Corners???...Where was Corners?

The shop at the top of Little Blackburn Road was called The Disc & Tape Exchange. Reidys was on Penny Street in Blackburn.

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Holds Shady McGough back.... "Leave her alone Shades, shes not worth it!!":D

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the old house at home was on melbourne street across from fenners works which became karrimor, hughie was the landlord who took a strop with me cos i told him his bitter tasted like vinegar lol

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I do remember old house it was dead! went in one night and the bandit was unplugged so i thought i'd do em a favour and plugged it in, stuck 5p in and got a winner..and paid cash. spun again and it froze on the winner! again and again but shellin out tokens
the landlady comes up and turns it off, i had what was a night out to me in cash plus tokens i cashed in at the astronaut.. sad to see the place go really

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does anyone remember the small record shop that sold singles for 5p? it was near the black horse on abbey street, sometimes it would have singles that were still in the charts.. used to by them and take em to mary's music and say we needed a refund or replacement for some other single cos my sis bought me 2 by mistake,(singles were about 30p at the time, and I can't think they had till reciepts in them old days.)

worked a few times but then mary herself took a look and sussed it had been played to many times.. ha ha worth a go!

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was corners not the name of the place that relaced the old house at home?

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Never knew that, Mr. C. Last time I went in was the late 70's. A bit of a Burnley fans' stronghold, if I remember rightly.

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hey i aint sure wyn:confused: just askin the question.:)

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Oh right, sorry, Mr. C. Maybe somebody will enlighten us?

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It was somewhere up along Eastgate (i think ) possibly across from where Home and Bargains new store is, somewhere around that area, again i am vague about it, it would have been in the late 1980`s, so possible Old House at Home, i don`t recall that one..

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Corners was knocked down to build Eastgate. I think it was the street with Extreme womans clothes shop at the top. A bit dingy as I remember from my one and only visit

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Dingy...that definitely sounds like the Old House At Home!

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To help jog a few memories here are some photos I took tonight.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1150234304

This used to be the Antley. It was Islamia Girls School and now it's due for demolition.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1150234304

Here's the Kings Arms still there on Lee Street although the end of the row has gone.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1150234304

And this is where the Old House at Home used to be when Melbourne Street was a simple street and not the dual carriageway now known as Eastgate.

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thanks for the photos Willow , definitely been some changes during the last few years , the last photo (Old House at Home) is that a view up Avenue Parade? a one way street ? and the corner where the Adelphi used to be ?
The Antley looks real sad , was a good pub in its day

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OH MY GOD! looks like the queens

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got me stumped on this one Willow....any chance of a clue .........

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Where was the Queens at ?

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thats the queens,corner of barnes street,come as a shock that! was a good boozer in the 60s. the road used to be pit street i think.

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The pub that replaced The Old House at Home was I think the Cock'n'Bull (although it was better known as the flying bottle)!

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Lovely pics.

The King's Arms interests me. I'm sure that is the pub where my late husband and I did our courting! The landlady was one of my mother's dearest friends and was always very kind to me. Jean Daniels........I would love to know how she is.

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marys music was on the corner next to the motorcycleshop but moved to a double shop next door directly across from the mobility scooter shop

disc and tape was another music shop which was on teh corner of abbey street and little blackburn road

corners pub - what a disgusting act it was to demolish that for the sake of a road that causes more traffic congestion that what it was built to solve

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Ooh I'm sure that Jean Daniels was in Rough Lee having a baby the same time that I had my daughter....38 years ago!

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The Adelphi is still going strong though!

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George pearsons paint shop as not been mentioned during this thread it stood on the corner of water street and the then melborne street george had two beautiful daughters babs who married geoff ivel who was then famous as a outstanding full back for accrington stanley but later retired as a superintendent lancashire constabulary Georges other daughter marge also very beautiful unfortunately died young due to a brain tumour she was sadly missed because she was a very popular girl and came as a big shock as nobody knew how ill she was as she was always smiling and laughing

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ta willow i'm not too great on historical stuff but aint too bad at pubs.:D :D :D

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the cock and bull did change its name to corners and was run by joe mcguiness, then there was the pickwick,which became shifters then became rumours where the old classic cinema used to be before it became unit 4, this is now boots and the entrance to the arndale centre from broadway, the langs arms is now omosque of blackburn road,the hyndburn is now being converted into an asian shop,and yes reidys was at the top of little blackburn road before it became disc and tape,there was a record shop were mary,s music moved to in the 70,s called marshalls used records,also had a shop in the high st at rishton just over the bridge,
eeeh nostalgia ai,nt it just old fashioned:)

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i did,nt think that anyone would remember that record shop in rishton, it was were the alminari indian restuarant is now and was run by a nice lady who let you peruse as long as you wanted to, not like the music shops now, also there is a pub that was missed of the eastgate circuit called the royal oak just across from e.j. rileys :engsmil:

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You could be right, Margaret, as she did have a daughter later in life and after a few calculations she would be around that age. Lovely lady, I think she would be in her mid seventies now.

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soz kerrie,;) see my tour - post7, royal oak was on it, had a pint in there with george best who was going to ejs at the time.

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If memory serves, the 'Old house at Home and Corners were the same place. They used to have a live band on a Thursday night.

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The Langs arms (corner of Lang St and Dale St) was demolished many years ago to make way for new housing, I think you mean Stevenson Memorial Club (aka Dale St Club) on Grimshaw St which is now a mosque. I used to live around this area as a child and remeber my dad calling in the Langs on his way out on a Friday night.

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Is the Blockade still a pub?.

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No Alan, the Blockade is sadly now offices.

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There should have been a preservation order on the Block...what a great pub! The back room had an "atmosphere" all of its own! ;)

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I remember going in to Mary's and seeing a guitar for 15 guinea .and i did not have a clue what guinea was .had to ask me mum what it was in pounds .i was about 10 i think

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Fifteen Pounds & Fifteen Shillings...in the days when we had real money. None of this metric nonsense.

God help us if we ever take the Euro.

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That's funny. I thought the old guinea was 21 shillings. I think?

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it was terry- read the thread before tealeafs,:D :D

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Ah yes. How much the guitar was, not a guinea. I got it arse about:mad: :D

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Thanks Uncle Mick, Bloody Reidys......... D 'N' T was a fine establishment in which I served my musical apprenticeship for at least ten or more years as a Saturday lad, part time worker, christmas temp and assistant manager. Sorely missed by a hardy few.

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i did all those crawls in the 60's and went out with one of the Dansaks..... Hope & Anchor, Broadway, Derby, Blockade, Black Horse (GREAT JUKEBOX - Otis Redding, Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. pub just off Abbey St up the top, nbear Oak ZSt in one of the cross streets........ one day perhaps I'll do a map of the pubs.. many long gone!
Also did "crawls"Iin Clayton .. Greyhound, Load of Mischief etc.... and Ossy.... starting at Church Commercial, now a sad site (sight?!).. I wish people did not use pseudonyms, makes it hard to spot those past associates.. I am Jenny Creasey from Whalley Rd accy, (although Im now married). does anyone remember the Dansaks, and the Warriors? Whatever happened to all the guys in those groups. I've been living abroad and then in West Sussex, but still come back to Accy every 3 months re old rellys... My sister used to post on this web as Susie 123, but sadly died on New Years Eve...... my email for any old Accringtonians who recall me is [email protected]. Happy days those round the pubs of Accy, oh so innocent!

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Seeing as this thread was started by steel jack does anybody know if he is still around?
I will be seeing a mate tomorrow who worked along side me and his father Fred in the mid 60,s.
We worked at Batty Holt continental coach tours.

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If I remember rightly, Mary was Joe Mortimer's missus, he of Morts ballroom. By heck I had some fun there, Sunday afternoon dances; steering the old girls around the floor in exchange for dancing lessons.
Shades of Joyce Grenfill; "Stately as a Galleon" more whalebone than to scaffold a Town Hall, dad wasn't too impressed!!.

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Am sad to hear of Susie123 dying. She was a lively poster on here

I think it great that a thread gets resurrected after 8 years. Well done Jenny

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Susie was a great lass n well missed,

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the Disc and tape was my shop..

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Right on the corner, Right on price!