When I appear on Radio Programmes to talk about this site I always seem to get asked the same question --What is is about Lancashire that makes people remanise so much . I suppose its because we all have happy memories about the Town we live or lived in .
The town I grew up in Barrow In Furness is going through a lot of changes with a NEW MUTLI MILLION POUND MARIANA and business park soon to be built and a marketing campaign -The logo of which seems to have ended up in Blackburn.
What are your happiest memories of the town you grew up in --People ,Places and buildings --Please share them with us by adding --YOUR COMMENTS so the next time I am on the Radio I can explain it in your words as to why you love your town and LANCASHIRE .
As I finshed uploading this to the site our MEMBER C--ROLY --from Barrow e-mailed me to tell me of a funtion he and his wife attened he wrote
May I mention that the wife and I
attended the closing night at the Railway club on the Strand in Barrow last
night ( SUNDAY ) . This has been one of our watering holes for the last few decades the wife
being on the committee there. About 40 of us had a good night but there
was an obvious feeling of sadness. It has been a Lancashire cell to a lot
of us, and was decorated with red rose flags and notices.
John Says
I have many happy memories of that club and others and also the HARBOUR public house across the road (Best pint ever tasted and many nurses chased --The old hospital was just up the road ) . Many of the Working mens clubs are closing taking with them not just memories but the characters who frequented them
John, its not the town, its the people in the town, that make it memorable, and Lancashire people are a very rare breed. Friendly, warm, careing, and truly special, you will find no equal to anywhere in the world, thats what makes for happy memories, we always mistake the place that was happy, but how could it have been without those special people,
Thats why Accrington is special to me. Having said all that I do love Accy.
And you spelled or is it spelt it all right John boy hahahahah
Can someone give Phil a hanky but I do love Accy as a place along with its people and you are right Phil the world could learn an awful lot from us Lankies.
Lesley its brilliant to be back in touch but 50 yrs ouch I am still that kid in my head, shame about the rest of me hahahah
Sheila
Whilst I have lived away from my home town of Barrow in Furness for almost 30 years -probably more if you include my seatime, I have never felt the same attachments here in New Zealand to anywhere I have lived more so than Barrow.
Accepting I chose to leave for a variety of reasons, and NZ may have offered me opportunities that may have been alot harder to find in the UK , it still does not make me more happier than I felt in my childhod and youth. The town had order, people may not have had much like today but they enjoyed what they did have-each other and a feeling of pride. Things took longer to happen , but when they did, it seemed like it was for eternity. Am sure, whatever part of Lancs you were born, we can be proud of what we gave the world, good hard working people with a great heart. Long may it survive.
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