Recent content by Darby

Well Cashman and Ossy Kid, you were at Accy Tech the same time as I was. Mammy Archers class 56-59 and left under a cloud then to join the Royal Navy. Just returned from New Zealand and spoke to David Lloyd at the first test match in Hamilton, we talked about Cambridge Street Methodists and he...

Pity I will have just gone back to Germany on the 26th. We are coming over to Accy on the 17th, driving all the way by car...about 1500 miles..... I'll probably call into the Stag after the Stanley game on Tueday 19th...well it keeps me off the streets! Sorry I can't be there on the 30th MEZ.

I'm about to loose my internet connections at work and at home in the next couple of days. I may not be back on line for a couple of months. We are moving from East Germany back to Bavaria in 14 days, and I won't get re-connected until mid-end March at the earliest. I'll miss you lot on...

That's going back a bit...yes Tony did live on Jubilee Road, I'd forgotten its name. Bill Sledden....I can vaguely remember him, I think he was just a bit younger than myself. If he knew Tony then he would almost certainly know Granville Larder, Les & Trev Birtwistle and Billy Gudgeon amongst...

The best place to buy a house around Accy is............................................Keswick......and that's going to the dogs as well!! Seriously though; Top of Ossy, Knuzden, Stanhill, Bash, Altham, and that's about it. Depends on what you want, need and if you have transport. I've found...

I think the guy mentioned was Tony Pollard's Grandad. Tony went to school with me and his photo is somewhere on this site as a member of my class at St. Andrews school in 1953-55. Tony lived on Hyndburn Road at just about that point in the Photo, and he talked about his grandad who use to...

Now don't get me wrong...but after reading threads for the last 2 years or so, I feel that things are changing on Accy web. It seems that we have a different attitude, a different type of thread, and a different view point. I'm not against change, and I'm not against improvement, or youthful...

Is it the roof on the little chapple / church in the Cemetary?

It's bad enough when I come back to Accy now!! At least Ossy hasn't changed much!

The one I saw belonged to an old friend who borrowed a copy of it from somewhere. Unfortunately, he lost it!!! I think you may have seen to one at: www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/towns/acc/accwest.jpg That one has the canal in it and the railway. The old one I saw was sometime at...

I've never been on a night out in Accy for about 15 years!! (OK my fault I suppose) I'd rather go to the Rose & Crown, Stag, Heys Inn, Plough or the like. Better ale, better company, but still lots of noise!! Prices are all over-inflated, but its the same wherever you go. All prices in the...

My house is known as "Albions End"...as a missionary (to Germany), its the end of Britishness in Europe. Or more likely...the end of Britain as we knew it!! Now where's my crystal ball!!

Mechanics Institute on Willow Street (no pun intended Willow), or next door, what use to be the childrens library?

Its the Key stone in the middle that stresses the other bricks and provents them from falling. In most arches of that era a keystone was always used, as its the "key" to the design. Hence the word "Keystone"!!

Twenty Steps (not really 20 I've counted 'em) are in Church, on Blackburn Road immediately on the left after you go under the railway bridge past Blythes. They lead via an overgrown path to White Ash Playing Fields passing by the western edge of Hill Street. Immediately in front of Hill Street...