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Hi Suedarbo Are'nt you glad you put your Grandfathers name up on Accyweb? Here's another reason to make you a little happier. Whilst on holiday in sunny Accy for the last 2 weeks (not long enough) I went , as I usually do, into Mrs Parkins shop in Burnley Rd. to buy some nostalgia, books etc...

Hi Suedarbo I had a word with my sister and she also suggested that those cottages near the narrow bridge could be the ones you are looking for. As for the names of your Grandfather I`m sorry but I cant add anything to what you already knew.

Hi I was born and bred up Fern Gore and don`t remember anyone mentioning the name of these cottages but they could be one of three locations. There was a row of maybe 3/4 cottages at the junction of Wordsworth Rd./FernGore Ave. One was shop and one was a cloggers shop and was known as John...

Hi. If any Accywebbers have children or grandchildren and want a day out with a diffence the Bolton Steam Museum is having a steam up on the 10/11th Sept. 10am/4pm when most of these fascinating and historical engines will be running. Its next door to Morrison's supermarket Chorley Old Rd. so...

Hi The info that I have regarding the Double Diagonal (only one in existance?) steam engine is that it was attached to a 4 colour printer which Lang B supplied to Bollington Print Co. in Bollington near Macclesfield about 1903, although it could have been used to drive a stenter or a Calender...

Hi mr. Rivetlad a nice big welcome to the best part of Lancashire. Accrington and Accyweb T

After Clarksons tyres, the Red Lion, for a few years, became a furniture shop. I can't remember its name. This would be 1972'ish. Did PV Tubes have another shop on Abbey St. facing the Post Office? According to a mate of mine that big tyre was one of the most comfortable beds he'd ever slept in...

Retlaw do you have any information on Maloney M., whose name should be on the Church War Memorial. My mother was a Maloney, who was born in Church, and Maloney M. could quite well be a distant relation. I have'nt come across any more Maloney's whilst researching Family Tree. If any one else has...

Hi. The impression I get is that there are people who do not seem to believe that there was a pub called The Spread Eagle before it was renamed The Railway Hotel, I was trying to make the point that there is evidence to back up your documentation. I dont have these documents nor do I have the...

Hi. I'd like to add a bit to this thread, so here goes. As an historian I'm on the same level as Katex.:D This is what I've got to say. I'm siding with Retlaw on this mainly because he has documents to prove that The Railway Hotel was known under a different name and the "stange"name of Eagle...

On the left of that painting behind the factory chimneys and in front of the railway viaduct, there is what appears to be a large mound of earth. Any idea what it is?

There seems to be quite a lot of confusion over the name of the stream that runs from Jacobs Lodge down past Fern Gore and behind Laburnum Drive through the old Paddock House school and into the lodges (now filled in) behind what was Rist's Wire. It has been established on this web (cant find...

When Lang Bridge moved from Paradise Works (Church St.) to their new premises in Exchange St., the exact date I do'nt know, probably between 1902-05.They called the new works Paradise Works because they were known worldwide as Lang Bridge, Paradise Works, Accrington and wanted to continue being...

I just want to thank you all for replying to this thread. Retlaw, the shop in Rishton was Dave Goodwin's (half grocers half model engineers supply's). Another model engineering company took over his drawings and patterns when he retired a few years ago. I'll make it a "must" to visit t'Ossy...

Just browsing through an old book (monthly diy magazines, bound) found this and thought it might be of interest to our Ossy historians. Under the heading of "Model Engine Making", Introduction- where to buy castings. "Mr, R.Thompson, 2, Brookside Lane, Oswaldtwistle, Lancs. supplies drawings of...