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If ever I have to go into Accrington I try ,if I don't have access to the car to walk the couple of miles there and then back .It was while halfway there I noticed roadworks in one of the main streets .A new road surface is being laid but before this is laid they have gone skimmed the surface back to reveal the owd COBBLES .When you see something like this it does make you stop for a minute and think of all the streets in this part of LANCASHIRE that were ones done in this and the labour it must have taken to do it .
I know that when the DARWEN ST area of Blackburn was cobbled a couple of years ago BRITISH labour could not be found to do it workers were brought in from all places ---PORTUGAL sad when you think about it .
I wonder if instead of tarmacing over our streets would it not be better to leave these cobbles alone as I am sure speed would be kept down with the vibrations you would have to endure going over the uneven bricks-
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It had been quite wet and windy this morning as I took the wife to work and after going into town this morning I notice that there had become a noticeable drop in the air temperature but the wife like a weather expert said IT WILL NEVER SNOW ITS TOO WET ---It seems mother nature has remember this winter what it is supposed to do and at 1.45pm white flakes of SNOW started appearing from the sky .Seems like someone knitted um bigger today as the time this photo show its a WHITE OUT .It only goes to show though when the wife says it wont snow ---GET YER SHOVEL OUT
With the onset of the Credit crunch I wonder if your town is suffering as much as the main town in the area which I live .Today I had some business to attend to in Accrington which once completed I thought I would have a look around the shops .Now I have lived in this area now for some time but what I see today shocks me ,the sight of WOOLIES stripped bare along with other shops that are now closed down(AT THE LAST COUNT AROUND 13 ) seems to signal a town on its last legs .Indeed a trip down the main road towards Blackburn does not bode well for this towns fortunes
.MILLIONS of pounds has been spent on compulsary purchase orders to KNOCK DOWN what must be 500 HOMES to make way for NEW HOUSES THEY SAID .If we are so short of house where has every one gone and mores the point WHEN will these NEW houses be built or have the money men had there way and done a runner .ACCRINGTON was once a proud town but all the pride seems to have gone WHEN WILL SOMEONE IN THE IVORY TOWERS OF THE TOWN HALL WAKE UP AND DO SOMMERT instead of constantly PROMISING THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN---ACCRINGTON IS DIEING --FAST .Oh we have been promised loads on PAPER all very well for someones EGO TRIP wish are amongst others ,A new bus station ,new Tescos, new town square, new curry mile, new eco train station etc etc etc ----- new this new that, but towns are not regenerated on paper but with bricks and mortar --or has all the money been spent on SURVEYS,CONSULTANTS and such like
I know many people KNOCK the towns in which they live but I say to those who do (and I know of one such town in the FURNESS area ---Come and live in ACCY IT WOULD MAKE YOU CRY.
You can view a few pics I took on my PICASA site by clicking on this link
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/earnshaw.j/AccringtonDeathOfATown#
With the closing down of the Lancashire Re-United site and the opening of a new forum ( On which I wont have to spend so much time I will have a BIT of spare time .So I will be adding bits and bobs to a new BLOGG talking about life in General in East Lancashire or observations I make
It also came to my mind that some folks may be wondering HOW you publish stuff like this on the net
So If you would like to do something like this we can connect to a YOUR BLOGGS feature.I am sure we would find it of interest and it is also a FANTASTIC way to learn how to do MORE with your PC
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