Best year(s) while living in Accy
 

1970, 17 going on 18 and just started to hit the Accy nightlife on a regular basis. OK what nightlife??? When your allowed into the pubs as an adult the world is yours!!!! Had my 1st tash, string on a lip! Tight fitting flared trousers and tight fitting shirts!!! Long hair. The girls wearing HOTPANTS for goodness sake!!!! Did have some better years but this was the one that stood out for me!! :alright:

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Same age, same year, I loved my hotpants.:dancedog:

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Oh dear...looks like senile dementia has set in with you two.

'Hotpants' were 1971, not 1970.

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wore them a lot did you?:D

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No..too young..but in later years I removed a few (denim cut-offs by then).

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63 fer me, started work could afford me first made to measure suit, music was taking off on a different tangent, could afford 3/4 dance halls a week, flicks a couple of times etc etc, got me motor bike,was just magic, the rest of that decade was great also.:)

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Hate to say I did this but just Googled to see about the time frame and it did say "very fashionable in the 70's" My 1st proper girlfried had a pink hotants suit on when I first saw her down the Lone Star!!!!

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My first years on the scene was 1962, when jiving was frowned on at Accy Con, Ballroom dancing only, jiving round the sides was regularly howled from the stage, then between 9-30 and 10 the jivers filled the whole floor whilst the Band was on their break. It wasn't long before Monday nights became a cult with Bernard presents, (Bernard was also steward at Stanley Supporters club Jazz club) The Lionel Morton Four, were resident, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, Freddie and the Dreamers, and many many more the good old days:alright:

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Instead of reminisce does anyone mind if I cry?

Just as randy but can't seem to pull them as well as I did in the sixties, (even the blind ones have some sort of warning on their sticks).

Please whatever you do don't grass me up by reading this to the really blind, that would ruin what little chance I actually have!:)

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hotants suit? bet she was nifty.:D ya probably also mean the Lode Star?;)

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50 ??? she wasn't 50!!! Yes she was nifty, we got married 4 years later! Always did and always do get the Lode/Lone Star wrong.

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Hotants = nifty.:D hotpants = good gear.;) me own late wife was a lode star lass.:)

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Sorry Looked through the thread, can't see anyone mentioning 50 either as a decade or a ladies age, perhaps you should ask Nursie for a fresh pair of underwear and stop getting so worked up? (Bless).

:D

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I won't say out Less, honest:D

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Just for further reference G. The lode star was down the ribble valley, the Lone Star is Texas :D

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Got it! (till I try to remember again!)

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yep i know the feeling.:D

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The thing is, O.K. a nip and tuck here and there, but,

I still look just as good!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...7&id=592043507

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i thought you said you couldnt remember that much ... :D:D:D

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Oh i do get many "Flashbacks" when someone mentions certain things.:D Flashbacks are the Cost Of Living, or so they say.;) n its those that make em great.

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Its the prerogative for gentlemen like cashy and myself to have lapses of memory Jen, now what was this thread about:D

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Less don't do that, would know I have a nervous disposition first thing in a morning:D

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It wasn't just jiving frowned on. If you were waltzing or quickstepping, the MC on the stage was watching you all. If more than your hands touched he ran down the steps, pushed his way through the dancers and literaly pulled you apart. No smooching,necking or doing anything which might exite you!

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necking? Smooching? - you need a visit from General Gordon, or better still General Booth.I bet you were the sort who whisked girls off through the back door to The Junction for a half of mild before returning and thinking you were in Paradise when you were actually in Paradise Street. If ever there was a mis-nomer, this was it.

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We must have gone to a different Con Club. We jived and got pretty close during the waltzes (well, smooches). No-one ever tried to pull us apart and that was back in '56.
That was a pretty good year - steady GF, a good job, money in my pocket and an Ariel 350cc - loved tearing around Haslingden Old Rd or Grane Rd with the GF on the pillion, clinging on like a limpet.;)

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We may have passed one another, I used to travel those roads on a 650 Triumph Thunderbird, in the late 50's. I used to like the bends on Hasi Old Rd, where you'd pay a pound an inch for what roads left, when you corner a bit too fast. Had to give up bike riding after I got a bullet in my left leg.

Retlaw.

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Twas def a good year 1956, the year I was born:) Can guess who the steady GF was as well;)

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got me bike in 63, twas a Triumph Terrier only a small cc, had to give up after me first smash did me leg n arm, was underage at the time so had to crawl in backyard instead of hospital, only rode it around the back alleys, due to that fact n it was a particularly bad winter.:eek::D

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I like the last dance the best Barrie, was called the Quacker, once round the dance floor then outside for your oats:D

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Jaysay's oats.:D:D

http://funkystuffblog.com/funkystuff...acker-oats.jpg

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I will insist putting 'Cs' where they're not wanted:o

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(We may have passed one another, I used to travel those roads on a 650 Triumph Thunderbird, in the late 50's. I used to like the bends on Hasi Old Rd, where you'd pay a pound an inch for what roads left, when you corner a bit too fast. [/COLOR][/B]Had to give up bike riding after I got a bullet in my left leg.)

Retlaw.

Do tell about the bullet Retlaw! I am all ears.

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Don't I know you are all ears, nosy B.
Bullet went in under my left knee traveled upward, and just stopped an inch short of making me a soprano, do you want to see the scars.
Retlaw.

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On a 650 Triumph Thunderbird? - thought they were faster than a speeding bullet;);):D

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You must have been REALLY annoying the folks up there, I know it's a bit wild up there but I never got SHOT!

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You obviously never rode past Jens house Gordon:D

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Should I have stopped off there?

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Oh dear, I've just looked at the Haggis thread and have an awful feeling that 'Jen' might be Shillelagh!!!If so my apologies Shillelagh, and honestly spugs I never did stop there(and if I had I don't think Shillelagh would have been around so many years ago).
If there's no connnection, Jaysay,what did I miss?

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Jen in a bad mood when bikers wake her up:D

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Back to thread-all good years in Accrington but some you remember more than others.
1958-I'd just got my first car, a 1931 Austin Seven from a scrap yard.Four of us went to Wales for a holiday and a back wheel fell of in the middle of the Menai Bridge. The traffic jam was awesome, we had to carry it off. Not a good start but then we met these four Welsh girls and it improved! Those mountain girls could eat an English boy alive and then look round for more! Yes ,I remember 58(just).

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Although not born here, & having the advantage (?) of an Accrington education & growing up with the likes of you lot....
I did choose to move from Manchester (in '64) at age 19 & come & work here...
Whereupon, I met my current wife (44 yrs & still counting!!)
We now have 2 daughters, 2 sons in law, & 4 grandchildren from 16yrs down to 2.5yrs.
So, to get back to the thread title, I've got to say, my best years whilst living in Accy....

1964 to 2010


& hopefully, many more!!

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Sorry Bernie, missed your quip:D You are right about the GF of course, we still laugh about it - wasn't quite like "Paradise by the Dashboard Light";)

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well now ya been here awhile, i gotta ask, Do ya think ya will like it?:D;)