what is your first memory of accy?
first memory!
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my 5th birthday party in the old McDonalds upstairs bit where it smelled of chicken nuggets and feet eurch!
My Grandma's house in Sultan Street.
Then after we moved here, Peel Park School.
Then after we moved here, Peel Park School.
My first memory of Accy was getting the bus on Saturday mornings with my mum and baby sister (Grego). We would catch the bus in Church to Accy to go to the market. At that age (3-4) I thought that Accy was massive. I remember the round toilets on Union St and the crossing on Broadway with the railings going up the road. I remember going into the back entrance of Woolworths and the massive car park on Union St. I remember being frightened of going into the library because it looked so big, and my mum said that we had to be really quiet or the lady would shout at us.
My earliest memory is probably playing hide and seek on the site of the old Foundry on Maudsley St, across from the New Brewery pub, which my nan and Grandad owned.
Tinkerbelle said:
Long time since either of them were about. Remember them both but did not drink in the New Brewery but my old man did.
SPUGGIE J said:
Not that long ago you cheeky git!!
Tealeaf said:
what a lucky birth date i have!!
lol.Happy birthday shakermaker although it,s still yesterday here, it must be tomorrow there already??!!
My first memory of Accy, we lived in a confectioners on Nelson St and the smell of fresh bread and custard pies still lingers, even after more than 50 years.
My first memory of Accy, we lived in a confectioners on Nelson St and the smell of fresh bread and custard pies still lingers, even after more than 50 years.
My first memory of Accy is walking there from Ossy with my Nan. She was pushing my brother in a big coach built pram. I was two and a half, so it must have been the summer of 1967.
We stopped at a cafe on the way there that used to be at Church, on the corner diagonally opposite the Commercial pub. She bought me a lucky bag. As well as various sweets inside it had a big rubber mouse in it, and I wasn't happy so I cried. I was expecting a better toy, or perhaps some jewellery.
We stopped at a cafe on the way there that used to be at Church, on the corner diagonally opposite the Commercial pub. She bought me a lucky bag. As well as various sweets inside it had a big rubber mouse in it, and I wasn't happy so I cried. I was expecting a better toy, or perhaps some jewellery.
First real memory is being in a chip shop in Henry Street, Church, and pulling a lady's earring because it was shiny and dangly. I must have been very small, because I remember I was being carried by my uncle. I can also remember falling into the (very old fashioned) washing machine, thankfully the water had gone only just warm, and being pulled out by my legs by my screaming aunt! I think I must have been a horrible child, but ask Mez, she will probably confirm it!
Hi tinkerbell. I just found out from your post that your granny and grandad were owners of the New Brewery. Thats the one on the other end of the block from the Royal Oak in Meadow st. I think. In the panorama of Accy that I speak about in the thread 'Coppy torn assunder' you can see the N.B. quite clearly. Just thought I,d let you know
to be honest my first memory of accy isnt realy my first memory ..
i moved here in 1981 but in the summer of 81 just 2 months after moving here i was involved in an accident which left me with a 3 month memory loss which i have never got back so my first memory of accy is when i was brought home from the hospital and seeing my brothers waiting for me at our house which to me was the the first tiem i had seen it as far as my memory goes.
from what i have been told i had made friends but i had to go through all the process of getting to know them al over again and luckily they were a honest bunch as they could have said i had borrowed money and i wouldnt have known any better lol
i moved here in 1981 but in the summer of 81 just 2 months after moving here i was involved in an accident which left me with a 3 month memory loss which i have never got back so my first memory of accy is when i was brought home from the hospital and seeing my brothers waiting for me at our house which to me was the the first tiem i had seen it as far as my memory goes.
from what i have been told i had made friends but i had to go through all the process of getting to know them al over again and luckily they were a honest bunch as they could have said i had borrowed money and i wouldnt have known any better lol
Its 15 years since I moved here so cant recall first memories only first impressions and my first impression of accy/hyndburn was and still is that its the most racist place I have ever lived in. In fact it was quite a shock at the time.
We always remember the bad more than the good.. I still think this is a very racist area.. but the good of accy easilly out balances that one bad side and thats why I am happy to live here and bring up my family here... lay down roots and never want to move... Just because I see it as a highly racist area doesn't mean I have to change my values or bring up my children differently.. I can ignore it and work around it...
Nevertheless it stays with me as my first real impression.
OI!!! I was asked and thats my answer...
Sod it.. I had too much karma anyways
We always remember the bad more than the good.. I still think this is a very racist area.. but the good of accy easilly out balances that one bad side and thats why I am happy to live here and bring up my family here... lay down roots and never want to move... Just because I see it as a highly racist area doesn't mean I have to change my values or bring up my children differently.. I can ignore it and work around it...
Nevertheless it stays with me as my first real impression.
OI!!! I was asked and thats my answer...
Sod it.. I had too much karma anyways
KIPAX said:Its 15 years since I moved here so cant recall first memories only first impressions and my first impression of accy/hyndburn was and still is that its the most racist place I have ever lived in. In fact it was quite a shock at the time.
We always remember the bad more than the good.. I still think this is a very racist area.. but the good of accy easilly out balances that one bad side and thats why I am happy to live here and bring up my family here... lay down roots and never want to move... Just because I see it as a highly racist area doesn't mean I have to change my values or bring up my children differently.. I can ignore it and work around it...
Nevertheless it stays with me as my first real impression.
OI!!! I was asked and thats my answer...
Sod it.. I had too much karma anyways
What on earth makes you say that?
I've been a northerner in south London, a grockle in Cornwall, and a soft English git in Glasgow. I've found Accy no more racist than anywhere else I've lived, and a lot less so than a lot of places.