These are the Accrington Pals — the 11th East Lancashire Regiment — marching through Accrington on 1 August 1915.
Local lads, mates from the same streets and mills, marching off proud as punch with the whole town watching. That was the Pals idea: fight alongside the men you grew up with.
Less than a year later, on the first day of the Somme at Serre, roughly 720 of them went over the top. In just 30–40 minutes, around 585 were casualties — killed, wounded or missing. Whole rows of houses in Accrington lost their sons and brothers in one morning.
That’s what “community” used to cost when men still had duty and backbone.
Lest we forget the real price of that war — and the stock we came from.
#AccringtonPals #Lancashire #LestWeForget
The Labour Party is making dog breeds especially the Labradors into a type of breed-and-colour risk for their
political views/gains. Why Black call it Noir if that's any different 😂
@PolitlcsUK This ignores the reality on the ground. Many school leavers want jobs, not more education, yet there aren’t enough openings and not every parent can afford to keep supporting them.
@sarahsmithlab@ASFCofficial Associating Labour with Accy is one thing, but All Together Now wasn’t Stanley’s anthem. That was “On Stanley On” and now “Stanley Till We Die"