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Mancie

28-05-2009 18:14

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Originally Posted by beechy (Post 716022)

cant say exactly were it starts or ends..but
it was a track of land than ran from accrington up to baxenden
starting nuttal st /victoria st.and running past king georges playing fields
and up on toward the chemical works at bash passing hollands pies
im sure if im wrong i will be corrected :rolleyes:

that's the one...the dissused railway followed the same route up to rising bridge.

ian1	28-05-2009 23:03

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat (Post 717193)

Ah good memories- We were on the Ossy side of the clough, never knew it's proper name - it was just 'The Clough' to us but what a fantastic playground.
Sliding down from what is now Yew Tree drive on a car bonnet in the snow all the way down to the brook.
The rope swing over the 'gorge' where one guy fell and broke both of his arms.
We made a professional job of damming the brook until someone broke the dam and flooded the allotment by St Mary's School.

Great days .. went past other day and it looks as if know one has played on it for 20 years , its all over grown and there are big trees were there weren't any :confused:
ian

jaysay

29-05-2009 10:38

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat (Post 717193)

So it was you then was it:D

Benipete

29-05-2009 15:31

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I think you are talking about two separate places.Typical of Ossyer's trying to nick Priestley Clough.
I know it well,I drowned in the lodge when I was five.:theband:

jaysay

29-05-2009 16:24

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Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 717430)

I think you are talking about two separate places.Typical of Ossy's trying to nick Priestley Clough.
I know it well,I drowned in the lodge when I was five.:theband:

Well you know us Gobbins Beni, we'll nick out if it ain't nailed down, but excuse me for asking but if you drowned when you were 5, who the hell keeps posing in your name on here:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::D

Mancie

30-05-2009 04:46

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hey it takes me back..my first date was behind highams mill on friday night with a lovely girl..a bottle of woodpecker and we were sorted...just dating and maybe get a mini radio listen to the top ten!

Morecambe Ex Pat

30-05-2009 13:38

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We are indeed talking of two different cloughs but I have spent many hours in both of them.

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 717331)

So it was you then was it:D

Sorry about that, did we damage many of your crops?

The flood was not entirely our fault, the dam was a beautiful construction with a steel cable across the valley between two trees and then all kinds of stuff piled against it. It was built over a few weeks and in the end we had a lake over 5ft deep which we could swim in. The Council people came up and decided it didn't have planning permission or some other such nonesense and decided to demolish it. Instead of making a hole in the dam and draining it slowly, Mr Dimwit Council Person arrived with bolt cutters and just cut through the cable. I am glad we were watching from a safe distance because the cable whipped across the valley quicker than an MP can claim expenses. Then the torrent followed and we saw the devastation to the allotment the following day.

Oh to live in those innocent says again.:cool:

gdm27

30-05-2009 16:06

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Originally Posted by ian1 (Post 716979)

I used to go there too , remember the "Monkey climb" at the top end near fern gore ??
ian

Wasn't it called Black Rock until it got filled in??

Benipete

30-05-2009 18:54

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 717462)

You are posing the same question that I have posed for years.

Who saved me and what should I do with him,Thin line I think.:D:D

Doug	30-05-2009 19:20

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Originally Posted by gdm27 (Post 717749)

Wasn't it called Black Rock until it got filled in??

It was indeed, I was on Miller Fold during the time they dumped all the rock and ****e over the edge.......one of the wagons nearly killed me one afternoon......

jaysay

31-05-2009 09:15

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Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 717786)

You are posing the same question that I have posed for years.

Who saved me and what should I do with him,Thin line I think.:D:D

The thinnest Beni:D

talentedbutslow

19-06-2009 08:05

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Used to take my girlfriend courting up the clough......and.....we were good!!

talentedbutslow

19-06-2009 08:11

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Hmmmmm.......wonders if Duckworth is related to me.......

cashman

19-06-2009 10:34

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Originally Posted by talentedbutslow (Post 723000)

Used to take my girlfriend courting up the clough......and.....we were good!!

2 ways to interpet that Tal.:D;)

LYNX1

20-06-2009 06:57

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Just think about your youth cashy and you'll get it right :D

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