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No problem I just thought some of you might be interested, Ian's sister got it to take back to Australia with her that's how I know about it :)

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Just like the buses - those with the entry at the back and no doors of course.

In spite of warnings we jumped off and on when the bus was still travelling. Imagine doing that today – not that you can.

We survived because we learned how to jump on and off a moving object up the park on the roundabout. Remember the umbrella and the plank. They were lethal and tossed many a kid onto the grass – if you were lucky. We would launch ourselves off a swing with scant regard for the consequences. We wore our scabs as badges of honour. I mean you weren’t a kid if at least one knee wasn’t covered in scabs. Cuts and bruises and stitches in the head were par for the course.

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How very true. And how much higher the slides were and how much more fun we had on playgrounds in those days than the kids do now where everything is so 'safety conscious'. I remember taking the plank "up to't bumps" and squealing with delight.


I misunderstood an earlier post where you said.

I thought you were referring to the Co-op building in my photo, not realising that there had been another one. I know this building in my photos is opposite the K on the map. That was the point I was making about it not being in Ellison Street. What was that larger building on the opposite side of Oxford Street?

Isn't it interesting how Jewsons is now located right next to where the sawmill used to be?

I've been looking at the maps and photos and have now concluded that the theatre covered a larger area than my first blob so have now drawn in a more accurate blob on the aerial photo.

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Jambutty; you can still get some black peas ! Health food stall in Accy indoor market sells them ! Soak over night and boil the next day! I get them from there for Bonfire night every year !:)

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The other side of Oxford st was also the the coop it ran from blackburn rd to blake st (and I am probably starting something else here) up to St James vicarage.
I searched on my mate google for accrington pals on ellison's tenement and got a couple of images that showed the back of the Hippy I think these came from an old book of accrington but I don't know how to create a link to post them direct to the web
thanks for images
tony

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The building on the other corner at the top of Oxford Street WillowTheWhisp was also the Co-op but the furniture department.

Wonderful link to those pictures.

Thanks for the black peas tip lindsay ormerod. I’ll keep it in mind.

That café in the Arcade does not actually sell the “Accrington Past And Present” DVD’s, as I found out this morning but I know who does.

A guy called Gordon runs the Springtime Video Service at 156, Rising Bridge Road, Haslingden does. The road branches off the main road near Winfields shoe place. His phone number is 01706 215914.

He is generally in his video studio in the mornings so the time to take a trip over there clutching a tenner is obviously during a morning.

I am planning to make a trip on Thursday morning at about 10:00am and I have three seats in my car available to anyone who wants to come along. Bring your own tenner.

The England ladies football team are in action in the World Cup in a few minutes so it’s time to get a brew and settle down and watch the ladies take the States apart.

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Sorry you had a wasted journey JB, that was where I got it from in June. Was going to go for one myself this afternoon as my sister is off to South Africa in the morning and I wanted her to take it for my brother. I will just have to get it and send it through the post.

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I probably was looking at the image with the end shed being built I could not see any thing when I searched again, thanks for the tip on how to sort a link out I will go and have a try.
thanks tony

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A bit from a book by Jeanette winterston for Jambutty
Over to the right was the viaduct and behind the viaduct Ellison's tenement, where we had the fair once a year. I was allowed to go there on condition I brought back a tub of black peas for my mother. Black peas look like rabbit droppings and they come in a thin gravy made of stock and gypsy mush. They taste wonderful. The gypsies made a mess and stayed up all night and my mother called them fornicators but on the whole we got on very well. They turned a blind eye to toffee apples going missing, (long live the black pea

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It wasn’t a wasted journey. It got me away from this blasted keyboard, gave the car a bit of a run out and I found out the phone number of the company that made the DVD’s and other information because of it.

I call that a very fruitful journey.

Pity the ladies lost. Ah! Well! We can’t have everything.

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The attached photo is one that I grabbed from the Excellent BBC program about the archive film of "The lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon".If I am correct,and this is open to debate,this is a shot of the opening of the electric tram service in Accrington,looking down Ellison St.Where is the Hippodrome?The original building was made of wood and burned down.Looking carefully at the picture there appears to be a pile of rubble where the building was.

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cracking photo, whats the building behind the rubble? is it the offices for the depot?

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Thanks for the shot, Les, never seen it before, but I've got my doubts about whether it shows the opening of the electric tram service. The original Hippodrome was built in 1903 and burned down in 1908. However, the opening ceremony for the electric tram service took place on August 2nd, 1907, so the original Hippodrome would still have been standing then.

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That is brilliant Les some things more clearer than others do you just take an image of the tv screen with the recording paused to achieve this. I don't think you can mistake the smoking chimney of the old electricity works in the background.I had thought all Mitchell and Kenyon archives where filmed in 1901 if I am right where does that leave us?
thanks
tony