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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-07-2022, 13:38

Replies: 14 Busiest pubs back in the 70's on a Friday and Saturday night! Views: 15 Posted By john conway Re: Busiest pubs back in the 70's on a Friday and Saturday night! The Black Abby was my pub. In 1965 I had my 21st there and it was also the meeting place for the Accrington Caving Club, later to become the Northern Exploration Group. The Accy lads joined with a...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2017, 18:29

Replies: 290 My early life in Accy 1946-68 Views: 31,204 Posted By john conway Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68 I remember I think they had two kids Malcom and Margaret, they had a gang hut in their back yard where we use to play. When it was time to come in from playing their Dad would stand at the door and...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2017, 18:11

Replies: 290 My early life in Accy 1946-68 Views: 31,204 Posted By john conway Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68 Hi Bryan, your name rings a bell, I went to St Anne's school and was in the scouts when I went to St Oswald's, I think its was the Sacred Hart Group, yellow and white neckerchief. Went on a couple...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2017, 18:05

Replies: 290 My early life in Accy 1946-68 Views: 31,204 Posted By john conway Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68 Yes, when I was a lad after I left school "St Oswalds" and did my GEC's at Accy Collage, I work during the six week holidays at Stanton.s based in Oswaldtwistle. Great pop. The following year I did...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2017, 15:51

Replies: 290 My early life in Accy 1946-68 Views: 31,204 Posted By john conway Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68 I was born in Clayton-le-Moors in 44 but after living in Church then Oswaldtwistle my Dad went to Canada on the £10 assisted package, but after six months he didn’t like it, so we never emigrated....

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 15-09-2013, 19:46

Replies: 13 English Electric Views: 1,165 Posted By john conway Re: English Electric My Dad, Joe Conway, also work at the English Electric as an inspector and as we both had the same initials he joined the English Electric fishing club and I use to fish the Calder with his ticket. ...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-04-2013, 12:52

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough OK the last four pics. The first is the clough above Red Barn, the next is the second pipe over the beck. The third is the bridge just before five arches and the last one is the bridge that...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-04-2013, 12:38

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough OK here's three more pics. The first is the bit of a jungle where there was a fence of sorts. In the beck there is a small water fall. The next pic is the Red Barn Field, don't know where the big...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-04-2013, 12:25

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough There was a fence of sorts but it was easy to pass. I also had my dog with me and I didn't lift it over any obstuctions. The only thing I was concerned about was she kept taking small drinks of the...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 14-04-2013, 13:40

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough Priestley Clough was also my playground between 1952 and 1960 at which point girls, beer and snooker took over until 1964 when I started travelling to the Yorkshire Dales to go caving and where I now...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 11-04-2010, 18:09

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough Yes Maureen, she's now living down in the Norfolk Broads, as is my Mum, she's now 92 and still going strong. My sister is 11 months younger than me. And were as I was in the last year at St Oswalds...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 11-04-2010, 11:57

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough Yes, the ride shaped like a Christmas tree was called the umbrella. There was also a big bench swing with handles that could seat maybe eight kids. One kid would stand at each end holding the bench...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-04-2010, 17:59

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough I think we are talking about the same Donkey Steps. To get to Bullough Park from where I lived on Higher Antley St., I walked up Major St. onto Perth St. turning left then up between the end of...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-04-2010, 09:58

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough Yes I remember playing in the air raid shelter at the bottom of Riley’s Hill, we use to put candles in jam jars. But I remember breaking into them in the 50's, but like you said the council always...

Forum: Heritage and History 02-04-2010, 20:37

Replies: 249 Woodnook mill. Views: 17,856 Posted By john conway Re: Woodnook mill. Hi Margaret, the names don’t ring a bell but there again I’m not very good with names. We lived at 157 just in front of a Methodist Church and a bit of spare ground. My sister was called Maureen...

Forum: Heritage and History 02-04-2010, 19:22

Replies: 249 Woodnook mill. Views: 17,856 Posted By john conway Re: Woodnook mill. This thread has brought a lot of memorise back to me. I lived on Higher Antley St in the 50’s & 60’s and my Mum use to work in a small Mill on the factory bottoms opposite another mill that use to...

Forum: Heritage and History 02-04-2010, 17:54

Replies: 165 Howard & Bullough Views: 18,545 Posted By john conway Re: Howard & Bullough I served my time at Howard & Buloughs completing it in 1965 in the Drawing Office. I only did 5 months in their own training school because I’d already done two years at the Accrington College of...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 02-04-2010, 15:55

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By john conway Re: Priestly Clough I and many of my pals, girls and boys, who use to live on and around Higher Antley Street in the 50’s use to play in the clough all the way from Highams Mill up to the Five Arches. We’d build dens...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 06-12-2008, 17:33

Replies: 118 Jazz Club Views: 13,567 Posted By john conway Re: Jazz Club Cheers Flashman, Paul Simon also asked if we'd mind if he did a few songs with one of his mates, I'd like to think it was Garfunkel but maybe that's just wishful thinking. Anyone out there remember...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-12-2008, 20:26

Replies: 118 Jazz Club Views: 13,567 Posted By john conway Re: Jazz Club Alan G I use to smoke Disque Bleu, brought loads back from various caving holidays in France. I also saw Paul Simon at the Wednesday night Folk Club I can't quite remember the name of the LP he was...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 18-05-2008, 13:38

Replies: 16 empire Views: 1,546 Posted By john conway Re: empire Bit of a coincidence, it's my Mums 90th Birthday next month and my sisters and I are digging up old photos etc to pop on to a clip board. We have found out that in 1929 she was a tap dance and...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-05-2008, 22:08

Replies: 112 Can you name the songs you danced too? Views: 9,636 Posted By john conway Re: Can you name the songs you danced too? ""Spring Hill and Christ Church around 1956, anyone remember the bands there with their tea-chest basses and washboards?" Yes Spring Hill was the first dance I went to as a teenager, then we...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-05-2008, 21:24

Replies: 47 Rollerama - great Harwood Views: 7,301 Posted By john conway Re: Rollerama - great Harwood I use to go roller-skating in Great Harwood in the early 60's, it was a bit rough and ready. I remember the guy who ran it use to use horse liniment on any cuts and burses, and there where plenty of...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-05-2008, 18:14

Replies: 47 Hacking boat Views: 11,077 Posted By john conway Re: Hacking boat Kate, that’s where I started, I Googled Hacking Boat and got some information about a ferry that was later replaced by a suspension bridge in the 1950's at Dinckley and it also said that the ferry...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-05-2008, 12:42

Replies: 47 Hacking boat Views: 11,077 Posted By john conway Re: Hacking boat Yes, I remember going to Hacking Boat with my mum & dad and I also remember loads of people picnicking and swimming in the river and the boat, but I don't think I ever crossed the river on it. Later...

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