Padiham Yesterday

[ŽižkovClaret]

Cricket club/football club and on to the hare is always a decent afternoon/evening. Gardeners isnt too bad either, kings has no nonsense owners again and starkies is having a massove refurb (although it will take some convincing to go back in there). That coupled with a few decent restaurants (cellar/fat giraffe/ mamma mias and sorranos) make it a decent town to live in in my opinion. I certainly prefer it to Burnley anyway.

There is the makings of a tempting civilised pub crawl there, and it's been a while since i thought that about Padiham

[PutTheWheelieBinsOut]

Most local businesses went under with the opening of Tesco.

Those who didn't went under with the floods.

I think you're living in an alternative universe. Which local businesses went under with the opening of Tesco? Which went under with the floods?

It's a fact that there are more business's in Padiham after the Tesco store opened than there was before Tesco. But maybe i'm incorrect and you can give me a long list of the business's that have closed because of Tesco and/or the floods. I say a long list because you did say 'most'.

[lesxdp]

It's a pity the increase in cheap home drinking and the smoking ban don't ever come up in conversation when people discuss why lots of pubs closed in Nelson.

There are other reasons in Nelson

[Dressinggown]

Must be nearly cricket season - Dressinggowns got his camera out again

I got a pint glass the other day with a supposed, frosted. image of the latest cricket ball tampering saga. Well done to the brewery involved although the image is from a test match around a decade or so ago.

Are the wickets too big or are they portraying that diminutive wicket keeper / batsman / little gobshite b*stard / Adam Gilchrist ?

[Garnerssoap]

Just a cloudy pint.

[UpTheBeehole]

There are other reasons in Nelson

Strange that these reasons only exist in Nelson, and not Padiham where dozens of pubs have closed, Burnley where 100+ have closed, and nationally where 10,500 have closed since 2000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43492043