Sixties Burnley.

[Dark Cloud]

Safeways

Yes it was, but I can only remember shopping in there an odd time. I also remember seeing Bambi at the Odeon and one or two others too, but I was VERY young.

[Lordlucan]

That generation had to be tough. My uncle, after a life at Jimmy Nelson, came to his end sat on his freezing outside loo in Clover Hill road in the 1980s. A nIcer guy you could never meet but you couldn't cross a line. He was a proper claret until they sold Jimmy Mc and then he refused to go ever again.

[COBBLE]

Tipplers were tough but then came Izal bog paper - ouch! A few other memories

Hapton colliery disaster
Nitty Nora and the stigma of purple patches on your head
The turntable at Rosegrove Sheds
Lining up 3 pints at last orders
Wakes week

[FCBurnley]

VB your uncle Bert Blackburn a great bloke, who I used to enjoy a pint with,used to tell me he had played for Burnley A and B teams pre war. Besides delivering fish from a horse and cart, his love for horses continued throughout his life.

Must be a joke about Blackburn and Horses in there somewhere !!

[bfcjg]

Bus conductors

[FCBurnley]

who remembers this?

We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile.......................altogether now

[tim_noone]

Bus conductors

And how did they know you'd underpaid they're were always on the ball..I always got a jobsworth halfway through the journey!

[LordBob]

We had a tippler toilet I loved it proper job held yer breath till it splashed you can't have that sort of fun with modern stuff and it saved water only flushing with the house waste water. Now the knockers up there'a thing to ponder WHO KNOCKED THEM UP??

[tim_noone]

Old bill.....

[IanMcL]

Squares of newspaper stuck on a nail on the back of the long drop loo door.

When newspapers were newspapers!

[yTib]

wasn't born until the 70s but from what i've seen from old pictures burnley had lots of great buildings pulled down in the 60s.

though the odeon wasn't demolished until about '83 but had been derelict for the best part of a decade.

it was criminal to pull that down.

[IanMcL]

Oilcloth
Silverfish
Gas chap
Coal chap
Rent chap
Pipe TV
Tippler
Radiogram
Epilogue
Pictures
Selling out shop

Just a few of the words used in the sixties that you rarely hear today.

Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, polio. Rickets, Berri Beri. Although incomers and foolhardy parents may bring some things back.

[Dressinggown]

Tipplers were tough but then came Izal bog paper - ouch! A few other memories

Hapton colliery disaster
Nitty Nora and the stigma of purple patches on your head
The turntable at Rosegrove Sheds
Lining up 3 pints at last orders
Wakes week

Izal Bog Paper merely transferred the excrement from the anus to the lower spine region, smearing faeces far and wide with it's greaseproof paper like texture. It actually smelled worse than the turds.

[Dark Cloud]

Izal Bog Paper merely transferred the excrement from the anus to the lower spine region, smearing faeces far and wide with it's greaseproof paper like texture. It actually smelled worse than the turds.

You have such a way with words Dressinggown. Those of us of a certain age have all been there so we all get the picture!!

[tim_noone]

Your mutha..was always the mutha spitting on a dirty hanky wiping your face for some reason what was all that about??

[BleedingClaret]

This is the England brexiteers want to return to.

Sh*tting outside, tramps with horse drawn carriages, and rodent infestations.

Trying to stop the rats coming in

[yTib]

hopefully you wouldn't object to those rats saving your life at blackburn general.

but when brexit is implemented you might have to go to manchester.

[Vino blanco]

The above picture of the Odeon seems relatively modern to me, showing the back of the Keirby and the supermarket on the right. I well remember the Yorkshire Hotel before the Keirby and where the supermarket is situated was the start of the terraced houses and pubs on the Pickup Croft area.

[yTib]

gosh how old are you vino, if you don't mind my asking?

[Vino blanco]

A young 70.

[yTib]

btw i think that car is a hillman imp which, according to wikipedia, was produced from between 1963 to 1976.

[yTib]

A young 70.

a fine vintage indeed.

[paulus the woodgnome]

It is an Imp yTib. This is an excellent thread and I've never lived anywhere near Burnley!

[Vino blanco]

Ytib. Think you're right about the Hillman Imp. I clearly remember the Keirby being built in 1958, it was going to be our first, multi-storey, sky scraper type building. Opposite the entrance of the Keirby was the Empress Ballroom, roller skating on Saturday mornings and ballroom dancing in the evenings until Rock n Roll came along and swept the dance bands away.

[yTib]

the history threads are always good on here paulus.

[yTib]

unfortunately vino that building is a blight on the burnley landscape.

i've met folk who have commented on it negatively when i've mentioned my home town.

[paulus the woodgnome]

Indeed they are yTib. I cant work out what the other car is though.

[yTib]

a cortina?

[cricketfieldclarets]

You dont know your born you lot!

[nil_desperandum]

wasn't born until the 70s but from what i've seen from old pictures burnley had lots of great buildings pulled down in the 60s.

though the odeon wasn't demolished until about '83 but had been derelict for the best part of a decade.

it was criminal to pull that down.

Certainly criminal to demolish the Odeon, (what an Art Deco gem it was), but I think you're wrong with the date.
I think it closed in 1973 and was demolished almost immediately and replaced by a Sainsburys. (Sainsburys later relocating to its current site).

[Vino blanco]

You're right ytib, but it was state of the art back in the early sixties.

[paulus the woodgnome]

Good shout. A Mk1 maybe.

[yTib]

Certainly criminal to demolish the Odeon, (what an Art Deco gem it was), but I think you're wrong with the date.
I think it closed in 1973 and was demolished almost immediately and replaced by a Sainsburys. (Sainsburys later relocating to its current site).

no. i've had this debate before. i was born in '78 and remember it and remember it being demolished. a friend backed me up anecdotally by telling me about a university homecoming.

[yorkyclaret]

Good shout. A Mk1 maybe.

It hasn't got the famous 'ban the bomb' rear lights.

[ClaretCanada]

Long drop at my Grandmas Queen St, Harle Syke double holer, catalogue pages on a nail. Scared the hell out of me,
Smell from Masseys when they were brewing

[ClaretCanada]

Tipplers were tough but then came Izal bog paper - ouch! A few other memories

Hapton colliery disaster
Nitty Nora and the stigma of purple patches on your head
The turntable at Rosegrove Sheds
Lining up 3 pints at last orders
Wakes week

I was a 17 year old Police Cadet at Padiham and was sent to help at Hapton in 1962, sights never forgotten

[paulus the woodgnome]

It hasn't got the famous 'ban the bomb' rear lights.

You're right. Haven't a clue what it could be then : o (

[Funkydrummer]

Gas tar, white dog poo, walking day, black and white TV, the light programme,
heavy leather case balls. Jack Moore's monkey.

You can see a floodlight on that piccy too.

[tim_noone]

I was a 17 year old Police Cadet at Padiham and was sent to help at Hapton in 1962, sights never forgotten

A dark day for Burnley and a shadow cast over the whole area I was 8 remember the funeral procession of peter tinsley down brougham st only 16 years old.rip no age at all.

[Funkydrummer]

You're right. Haven't a clue what it could be then : o (

It could be a Corsa.

EDIT :- Not Corsa, Corsair !!!!

[Dressinggown]

Your mutha..was always the mutha spitting on a dirty hanky wiping your face for some reason what was all that about??

As a kid if you had a bit of food left on on your face in the vicinity of the mouth your Mum would grob upon a dirty rag and then proceed to rub your lips off with it.

It always had a certain piquant taste and smell which would be difficult to replicate nowadays. It certainly stooped you from making a mess with your '99' at the fair.

[Paul Waine]

It could be a Corsa.

EDIT :- Not Corsa, Corsair !!!!

Car on the right is a Hillman Imp - number plate hidden by railing so can't get a model year on it.

Car on left - I can't get good resolution from the photo - and I've tried magnifying. The roof line looks too round to be a Cortina. My Dad bought a Mk1 from Skippers (?) in Burnley in 1965 - I had it as my first car for a year in 1974/75 - before the rust ate it all up! I got a MkIII to replace it but had nothing but trouble with it - turned out there were hairline cracks around the cylinders - drew in cooling water when the engine got warm and would stall when the revs dropped!

Is it a Corsair? I think that was just a variant on the Cortina. It looks a little like a Popular - but the size is bigger than I remember for that early 60s model.

Only two cars in the picture on a sunny day in Burnley - I doubt the picture is much later than mid-60s. Unless, of course, it was Sunday afternoon in wakes week.

[Paul Waine]

A dark day for Burnley and a shadow cast over the whole area I was 8 remember the funeral procession of peter tinsley down brougham st only 16 years old.rip no age at all.

I was also 8, Tim. I don't remember the events - though I learnt later that the husband of one of my mother's very close friends was one of those who died that day.

Hapton Colliery disaster: Friday 23 March 1962 - from google.

This BBC film is worth a view - 50 years after: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-19470692" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ClaretTony]

Certainly criminal to demolish the Odeon, (what an Art Deco gem it was), but I think you're wrong with the date.
I think it closed in 1973 and was demolished almost immediately and replaced by a Sainsburys. (Sainsburys later relocating to its current site).

It definitely closed in 1973 but, from memory, I don't think it was demolished for a good number of years after that and was just left derelict. The site wasn't used again until Sainsbury's moved in which prompted the departure of Safeway on the other side of the roundabout.

[lancastrian]

Cannot remember a knocker up in the fifties or sixties and I am probably older than most coming upto 80 in March. One thing not mentioned is National Service when at 18 you had to do two years military service or get a deferment until 21 if you were an apprentice etc.

[nil_desperandum]

no. i've had this debate before. i was born in '78 and remember it and remember it being demolished. a friend backed me up anecdotally by telling me about a university homecoming.

I wonder if someone can give a definitive answer to this?
All agree that the Odeon closed in 1973.
According to an article in the Burnley Express it was demolished in 1974, but the Express is not infallible.

[Godalmingclaret]

I grew up in Dawson Square, opposite St Peters, in the 70's and the Odeon was still standing but not in use I would guess as late as 1977. I remember it being demolished and was not born until 72. Sainsburys did not open until 1984.

ASDA in Colne opened before it and there were special buses from Burnley to visit it!

The picture of the Kirby roundabout is just as I remember it.

[Silkyskills1]

Talk of Hillman Imps reminds me of a car I had called the Hillman Huskey. Driving back from Newcastle one Sunday evening and the bloody thing 'died' on me just before Hartshead Moor service station on the M 62. I had been warned of their vulnerability regarding oil getting somewhere it shouldn't (I know nothing about cars) but was at an age where I thought I wasn't vulnerable to anything. Lesson learned.

[ClaretTony]

I wonder if someone can give a definitive answer to this?
All agree that the Odeon closed in 1973.
According to an article in the Burnley Express it was demolished in 1974, but the Express is not infallible.

The 1973 is definite. Now I'm not sure whether the building was demolished the year after or not, but the site wasn't used for over a decade until Sainsburys moved in.

[clansman]

Pretty sure the second car is a Vauxhall Victor.!
Burnley looked neat and clean that day . The demolition of the odeon was a big mistake.