http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/...didate-for-parliament-50027-8.html#post775651
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f69/britcliffe-wants-to-stand-as-our-m-p-47895-5.html#post721901
Not much good to Wyn though, unless being a Stanley fan gets you a vote
For those of us worried about this thread not being reverential enough, I thought we'd pack away the Spitting Image puppets back into the toy cupboard, for a suitable period of time. Which would give some people time to ponder their less than deferential tone, and I'd then pretty the thread up with a lovely floral display, just in case Ms. Buckley happens to pop by.
(I've even given the whole thread a good spray with Fabreeze, so it's smelling sweetly floral, and without a whiff of ironic satire left.)
Will disagree with you on a couple of points , if people were living in such misery and explotation in the "bad old days" how do you explain the rise of the seaside resorts like Blackpool, Morcambe etc. in Lancashire and other similar resorts along the Yorksire coast , these weren't built just for the "Bosses" they were designed and built around the same time the building boom of terraced streets in the Mill towns for the skilled working masses.
Re. the "poverty" of the housing stock at the time , I'm thinking most of the Mill workers who were drawn to work in the cotton towns appreciated the chance to live in a terraced house with an outside lavatory (most probably a tippler type) much better than the one room mud hovels most of the migrating mill workers who came from in Scotland and Ireland ,and looking back took a damn sight more pride in them than they do today,
I'm thinking if you look back through various threads which mention the older Big Houses(Villas/Mansions) where the big bad nasty bosses lived you can see that in Accrington many were in areas adjacent and abutting terraced streets , which seems a bit more democratic to what we see today .
My own opinion is the "rot" started in the days after WW2 , British industry carried on using the same old crap machinery and methods as had been in use from the turn of the century , example ...Germany had to re-build its entire steel industry , what hadn't been bombed was shipped east as reparations to the Russians , so what did the enlightened British politicians do ... they sold the Germans brand new steel plants ,built in antiquated British plants , then wondered why the German industry was more efficient than the British, same thing happened with other industries, post-war politicians cut the throats of the British workers to "create" the social society we see the results of today.
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Re: the seaside resorts.
Besides mentioning the date Bolton won the first F.A. Cup at Wembley, I was refering to a time pre-workers rights, and before holiday entitlements were given, which directly gave rise to the resorts on the coast.
ignoring the sarcasm about "t'cole ole" and the year Bolton won the first FA Cup , the point I was trying to make was .... I find it a bit odd that Blackpool Tower opened to the public in May 1894 , obviously a leisure market had been seen a few years earlier to set up such a project. Yet at the same time the folks who un-shackled the great un-washed from years of exploitation ( think thats one of the Labour Party's claims to the nations history) didn't put any candidates up for election till the following year " In the 1895 general election, the Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates but won only 44,325 votes. Keir Hardie, the leader of the party, believed that to obtain success in parliamentary elections, it would be necessary to join with other left-wing groups." (Wikipedia) . So obiviously things/life before the "creation" of the Labour party wasn't as bad as the "freedom fighting spouting socialists" say ,especially for the workers the Lancashire Mill towns .
Shes probably waiting fer the clocks to alter.So...has anybody up there spotted Kaz out and about yet? It's like waiting to hear the first cuckoo of Spring, isn't it?
So...has anybody up there spotted Kaz out and about yet? It's like waiting to hear the first cuckoo of Spring, isn't it?
So...has anybody up there spotted Kaz out and about yet? It's like waiting to hear the first cuckoo of Spring, isn't it?
But she's not catholicA wannabe M.P. from Lytham
said "I've tried to get along with'em,
I've been to their Mills
And tramped up their hills
But we don't seem to have the same rhythm"
But she's not catholic
No, but a few nights ago had a visit from GJ - 'on the knock'. Have not met him before - seems a down to earth chap. Topics discussed , in no particular order, banks, BA strike, MP's expenses, local Tories, taxes, Cameron/Osborne, public sector..... but no sign of the opposition yet
at least not in my area
Don't knock it Less but for that I wouldn't be here mateOh, perlease Mr. Vatican Pope can we have a decision on this one?
Is Rhythm exclusive to you red necks or can we all have a go?
Please don't try to ex-communicate me, I'm on Virgin broadband, that must be you're favourite network!
he Mole is dead, hung on a fence in Ossy
