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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-11-2015, 16:48
Replies: 148
Views: 16,134
Posted By pashley
Re: Accy Places

Eddie McGarry and his Broadcasting Band??
Forum: Accy Photos 03-11-2015, 16:46
Replies: 0
Views: 1
Posted By pashley
Viaduct pictures.

Does anyone have a picture of the viaduct which shows the old signals? I mean the semaphore signals, not the colour lights which appeared sometime in the 1950s? If someone can help, I'd be most...
Forum: Heritage and History 26-03-2014, 11:16
Replies: 36
Views: 7,438
Posted By pashley
Re: Accrington Railway Station

Does anybody have a picture which shows the old semaphore signals on the viaduct which used to control the access to the station from the Burnley direction? I need one for a talk which I'm giving in...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 15-11-2011, 21:44
Replies: 27
Views: 2,237
Posted By pashley
Re: Nobbys garage

Do you remember the aeroplane propellor which seemed to serve the purpose of holding back the steep bank behind the garage? When I was just a youngster, my Granddad used to buy his petrol there....
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-09-2011, 05:39
Replies: 33
Views: 4,395
Posted By pashley
Re: WHITTAKER OR LIVESEYS

There was a family called Livesey who lived on Avenue Parade. Their daughter Jennie was married to Cyril Whittaker, the hairdresser whose shop was at the bottom of Burnley Road. Jennie and Cyril's...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 18-04-2011, 21:10
Replies: 0
Views: 967
Posted By pashley
Berry, Smithies, Little

Do the names Jean Berry (Poplar Cottage, Willows Lane), Doreen Smithies, (10 Earl Street, Clayton-le-Moors) or Elsie Little (Hannah Street) ring any bells with anyone? Doreen and Elsie were members...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 12-05-2010, 18:43
Replies: 49
Views: 2,795
Posted By pashley
Re: 1st. Barbers

Rene Archbold was the daughter of the house.
Forum: Heritage and History 03-05-2010, 05:36
Replies: 20
Views: 1,314
Posted By pashley
Re: Long Gone

Just dipped in to this thread and thought to have a look in Barrett's 1935 Directory of Blackburn and District to see if there were other builders. Under 'Joiners and Builders', there are 35 names...
Forum: Heritage and History 01-05-2010, 05:59
Replies: 2
Views: 1,009
Posted By pashley
Re: Hampson's coal merchants

Thanks, anzac! So they were a firm like Woodwards from the bottom of Avenue Parade.
Forum: Heritage and History 30-04-2010, 16:06
Replies: 2
Views: 1,009
Posted By pashley
Hampson's coal merchants

I have been given two trucks for a model railway which purport to be copies of wagons belonging to "D. Hampson and Son, Coal Merchants, Accrington". (My son knows of my devotion to my roots!) There...
Forum: General Chat 15-05-2009, 16:11
Replies: 15
Views: 5,678
Posted By pashley
Re: Why does it take 3 days to clear a cheque?

What's equally annoying is the astronomical sums they charge to transfer money overseas. I regularly send money to support an Indian orphan and each transaction costs £25, maybe even more now. This...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-08-2008, 14:06
Replies: 20
Views: 3,490
Posted By pashley
Re: Tram, destination Accrington

Thanks, Kate. I never thought about Ellison Street. As I remember it, there was nothing below the Hippodrome except an area of open ground where fairs were held. This was in the 1950s
Pashley.
Forum: Questions and Answers 06-08-2008, 16:59
Replies: 763
Views: 51,539
Posted By pashley
Re: Bookworms: What are you reading at the moment?

If you like historical novels, try those of Elizabeth Chadwick. They take you straight back to the time of the Norman Conquest and the immediately following years. I've read most of them and they are...
Forum: Questions and Answers 06-08-2008, 16:54
Replies: 20
Views: 3,490
Posted By pashley
Tram, destination Accrington

Can anyone pinpoint for me the location of the tram shown in Mitchell and Kenyon's film which prominently displays 'Accrington' on the destination blind? I've looked at this many times and cannot...
Forum: Anything Goes 05-08-2008, 06:15
Replies: 20
Views: 531
Posted By pashley
Re: What drives you up the wall?

Oh yes, I forgot to mention Manchester United!
Forum: Anything Goes 05-08-2008, 06:14
Replies: 20
Views: 531
Posted By pashley
Re: What drives you up the wall?

Bad manners; arrogant jobsworths; vulgarity, especially women or girls who use four-letter words
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 27-03-2008, 16:37
Replies: 169
Views: 14,470
Posted By pashley
Re: lost dialect

Slopstone, yes! What about being hungry, or in dialect 'clemmed'. One watered the household plants with a 'degging can' to 'slather' the plants 'wi' watter'. My great-aunt always used to say that she...
Forum: Accy Photos 23-03-2008, 16:24
Replies: 52
Views: 7,488
Posted By pashley
Re: Accrington Train station

Thetrain is standing on the eastbound platform on the Blackburn - Burnley section. If you look at the top of the picture, a figure 6 can be seen. This platform still exists as the eastbound platform...
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