Wake Weeks
I remember when the whole town closed and became a ghost town. Almost no shops open. We could only get the Telegraph from the doorway of the butchers on Willows Lane. Had to buy your food in for at least a week. If you did get to go to the seaside everyone from your town/street was walking around with you!!!! Don't you just miss those days??? :D:D:D
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i do n also miss all the processions that used to take place at various holidays.:)
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It would never happen today....all the shops would be robbed by the time the staff came back.......thats progress for you :(
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all the excitement on the railway station
as the big steam train pulled in with extra carraiges allready full with holiday makers it was a mass exodus for the seaside oh happy days :mosher::mosher: |
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We were lucky, Eagle coaches had a pickup in the next street so my Mum could dismantle and take the kitchen sink!!!
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No Pendle St, it was the next street over nearest Willows Lane and sorry to say can't remember the street name for the life of me!!
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I remember the holiday weeks, Accrington (I think) followed Blackburn. My dad's optician's shop was in Bolton and their holiday week was at the end of June. As the schools broke up to coincide, Bolton kids went back to school in mid August.
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Here's a photo of Wakes Weeks at Nelson Station thanks to LCC Library
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Can anyone remember the James St. Working Men's Club outings to Southport?
All the kids used to run around wearing a card stating who they belonged to in case parents got tipsy and forgot all about their offapring. At lunch, chip butties used to literally fly through the air but can't remember what else we ate only that it was the same every year. Still its a nice memory. |
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