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Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 01-12-2004, 22:31

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. I haven't had a chance to look yet. It's been a funny day. I've spent most of it on the phone to Americans. Why do elderly American women always sound so infuriatingly sweet?

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 01-12-2004, 15:55

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. I have a copy of this poem! If I can find it I'll tell you who wrote it. Sadly, it's an image of t'Coppie which no longer applies since the trees were planted and totally transformed the...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 08-11-2004, 13:12

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. We moved to Accy in November 1957, to Sultan Street so you must have evoked the 1957/58 season for me! lol

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 06-11-2004, 15:21

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. I don't know kesrelx. I wasn't alive in the 30s. I may be getting on a bit but I'm not that old :)

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 03-11-2004, 14:29

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Maybe you have to be my age and have lived in one of those streets leading down from the old ground. lol I think the ghosts in question are the ghosts of the old players and fans who were at the old...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 02-11-2004, 21:12

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. The "roar" of the crowd, the clamouring voices, the phantom floodlights and the name Peel Park (it was the Peel Park ground where Stanley played at the foot of the Coppice.) - didn't really need the...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 30-10-2004, 16:15

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Yes Wynonie I definitely saw the image of the old Stanley ground on a cold dark wintery day with the floodlights shining into the crisp air and the roaring crowd of supporters as Stanley scored,...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 28-10-2004, 16:49

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Sounds like a great idea.

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 24-10-2004, 17:38

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. That sounds like a good idea. Photography and poetry. Perhaps artwork and short stories. It's beginning to sound like the old "Accrington Miscellany" Or are we drifting too far from what...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 22-10-2004, 07:33

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Excellent! Who is going to design the posters? Oak leaf wreath? Now that sounds like an interesting challenge but very appropriate for Accy.

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 22-10-2004, 06:54

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Oooh thanks Busman you found the thread for me that I was looking for! Sadly I think your first impression of Accy isn't far wwrong in a lot of cases because there's so much that needs to be done...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 20-10-2004, 08:27

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. This was written when Sultan Street was cobbled and the Coppice was bald. Muck'n'Mills A young lad came t’our fair town in th’eart o’t’ Lancashire hills. In a disillusioned tone ’e sighed...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 19-10-2004, 21:15

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. Hastily checking the curtains ..................... I'll have a hunt for that poem.

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 19-10-2004, 21:07

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. ooh Wynonie that sent a shiver down my spine. When I was a child we lived in Sultan Street and I remember my mother saying she had to be sure to get back home from shopping before "Stanley loosed"...

Forum: Music, Bands, Noise! 19-10-2004, 07:31

Replies: 112 Accrington Poets. Views: 8,799 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Accrington Poets. That really brought back memories of my childhood. I once tried to write a dialect poem about Accrington but it wasn't very good. It was called "Muck and Mills". If I can find it I may pluck up...

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