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Forum: General Chat 22-06-2011, 10:05

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. I know that word of mouth is a much slower process than twitter or facebook(neither of which I am a fan of)......but it does the job, just at a sedate pace.

Forum: General Chat 22-06-2011, 10:00

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. word of mouth is as good as anything...tell your circle of friends...make them curious.

Forum: General Chat 22-06-2011, 07:57

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Steve, I did say this in an earlier post........the LT have just taken a bit out of the book (losing the context, in the process)just to sensationalise, and stir the pot a bit......they don't care...

Forum: General Chat 22-06-2011, 07:26

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. There is a difference between negativity and seeing things as they really are. As for the Market Hall...can you see where all the money was spent, because I can't.......it is a travesty. It no...

Forum: General Chat 17-06-2011, 08:38

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Maybe it will get visitors flocking in to see if it really is as bad as he says.:)

Forum: General Chat 17-06-2011, 08:37

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Well, Stuart Maconie didn't upset me with his criticism........I am pretty sure there are lots more like me who couldn't really care what Stuart thinks.........he is entitled to his opinion(which, to...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 20:46

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. I'll drink to that!:drink:

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 20:26

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. You see we don't know if Stuart Maconie mentioned Accrington's illustrious past......and the fact that the town had once been glorious....I think maybe he might have done because wasn't he looking at...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 20:12

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Yes, Cashy....I was expecting something a little more up-market.......it was a huge disappointment...but now I have seen it, and passed judgement...I hope not to go there again. It was not to my...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 20:04

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Gary, I went to Cheltenham and was really disappointed...yes there was a portion of the town that was 'posh'....but the main part of the town was no better than Accy. Just my perception of it(Oh,...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 18:28

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Yes you are right, but maybe in some way that just underlines the sad decline of the town.....people are no longer wanting to spend money on books......maybe they can't afford them, maybe they don't...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 18:25

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Yes, you are right.

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 18:16

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. We could always get it off Amazon.:)

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 18:05

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. No I know you weren't, and to be honest, I think we are doing this author a disservice by relying on what the LT tell us he is saying...they really aren't interested in what the book says,(or...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 17:49

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. I'm not sure that the author of the book made that observation, or whether it was one that Garinda himself noted.

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 17:47

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. I really wouldn't consider it 'knocking' Accrington.......after all he isn't as far as I know comparing it to Wigan and saying Wigan is better. Accrington does feel very 'down at heel'....and I...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 14:42

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. I somehow assumed that he meant coming into town via Blackburn Road...because the description doesn't really fit Church Street either.

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 14:08

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. The truth is often unpalatable....and it matters not one jot where this chap hails from....it makes no appreciable difference to the fact that he has seen Accrington as it is and has reported...

Forum: General Chat 16-06-2011, 13:16

Replies: 121 DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Views: 3,962 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: DJ's book 'unflattering' about Accy. Well, I haven't read the book....and it is a bit risky taking comments and making judgements on it, because the true context may be lost. Newspapers, even the local ones tend to sensationalise...

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