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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 11-06-2004, 12:55
Replies: 26
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Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

Hi Doug

Well, if you're from Church - so am I! You probably remember the X Guns - not very nice, now; the Thorn (ditto) and the Queens (now a private residence)....the Commercial is now a...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 13-05-2004, 15:12
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

The interesting thing is that the estimate to build a similar structure today is close on £100m......of course, if it had been built as large as Bullough originally specified - 221ft across the...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 13-05-2004, 10:26
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

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ACCRINGTON SWEAT & BLOOD BUILT THAT CASTLE (sorry, thats the old radical in me speaking
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 13-05-2004, 10:05
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

I'm sure if the warehouse does belong to British Waterways they would have done something with it by now.......their track record over the last few years on restoring canal side historic buildings...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 11-05-2004, 07:32
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

You're right Bob.....on another posting I mentioned that the owner of the Warehouse was some ex-pat colonel living out in Hong Kong or somewhere similar & no one has been able to contact him.....I...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-05-2004, 14:42
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

Howard & Bulloughs.....before your time!
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-05-2004, 13:59
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

Could you possibly elucidate, AFC?

OK HERE'S THE CONNECTION

http://www.kcfa.org.uk/castle.html
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-05-2004, 13:24
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

Buildings like the Palladium are just too numerous..there's a similar building in Church (the one, like the Palladium, that became a Bingo hall and then a Snooker Hall).....the problem is they date...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 10-05-2004, 12:44
Replies: 26
Views: 1,852
Posted By Tealeaf
Re: RESTORATION - in Accy?

The problem is that of the buildings that we have in Accy/Ossy/Church etc do not appear to fall into the category that the BBC appears to require....these are 1) The building should have sufficient...
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