It's good to see Accrington through the past and present. It's always going to be home to me even though it has gone down hill a bit. Have faith that all other places that it will come back to life again if we all work together and it comes back to a nice town again.
Thanks to dear old Beeching the railway station and tracks are a shadow of their former self. It was a magnificent Booking Hall with six tracks in and out of Accrington. I grew up in Spring Hill from 1937 to 1967 and have to agree, it is a tragedy what has happened to a once proud town.
It was originally called Alkerington. St. James's Church is a Norman church. We used to call it the River Hyndburn 'The River Stink' because that is what it did.
Thanks for posting this link, I have seen parts of it before but no the whole thing. A Mr Strak had it back in the 80s and 80s when I was a regular traveller up those lanes.
Einfach genial 👍simply just amazing to see how things have change to the town to which I was born in back in 1971,,,,as I now reside in Germany....but Strange enough as only the Native Folk of Accrington are to be seen 😃thanks again for sharing your memories with us🤞
@@kamranchuahan8025 I have had to refresh my memory of the road system, I know one of the first things I saw was the clock on the Town Hall which I hadn't seen before. Church street seem like the likely place next door to Duckworths pie shop.
nice video mate. i was born in Huncoat 1954 but my dad joined the Metropolitan police and from a year old i grew up in London. we used to come back to stay with my auntie in Oswaldtwistle and my sister and i always liked going into Accie. i remember trickets ice cream a unique taste and those lovely crimson/navy blue buses that i found out were a tribute in the colours of 'The Accrington Pals' who were decimated on the Somme 1916. i live in Liverpool now but always look out for Accrington Stanley's footie results. you can take the lad out of Accrington..but you can't take Accrington out of the Lad!
