#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 Christmas Lives Here by Julie Hesmondhalgh for Maundy Grange

Julie grew up in Church, Accrington and went to Hyndburn Park, Moorhead High School and Accrington and Rossendale College. She is an actor and writer. Her latest book, An Actor’s Alphabet is published by Nick Hern Books. She is the proud patron of Maundy Relief.

🗣️ Read by Julie Hesmondhalgh

📍View this story at Maundy Relief, Abbey St, Accrington

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Originally from Blackburn, STEVE PEMBERTON is an actor, comedian, director, and writer, often with his team The League of Gentlemen.

He has won multiple BAFTA awards, and his many top TV appearances include Benidorm, Doctor Who, Happy Valley, and Killing Eve.

#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 The Wind and I by Aaye Noor, aged 13, The Hollins

🗣️ Read by Jason Watkins

Jason is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. Jason, originally from Albrighton in Shropshire, has also featured in Being Human, Trollied, W1A, the film series Nativity, The Crown, plus much more.

📍 View this story at Specsavers, 7-8 Broadway, Accrington, BB5 1EY

🙌🏻 Prize sponsored by Stuart Nevison

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 Accrington Pals by Rosie Adamson-Clark

Rosie was born in East Yorkshire to an Irish Mum and half Scots Dad. She moved to Lancashire in 1981 with a 3 month old baby. She is a Quaker, and very proud to be an adopted Lancashire lass now. She taught at Accrington and Rossendale College from 1991 to 1997.

🗣️ Read by Rosie Adamson-Clark

📍View this story at Lyndy Lou’s, Arndale Centre, Accrington

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 I am the Snow by Elias Ford, aged 13, The Hollins

🗣️ Read by Joe Duttine

Joe is an English film, theatre and television actor. He currently plays Tim Metcalfe in Coronation Street and is also known for his role in Shameless as Cameron Donnelly, the father of Maxine.

📍 View this story at Snowdrop Doula, Arndale Centre,

🙌🏻 Prize sponsored by Jamesons Print

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson CBE

Jeanette Winterson CBE is a multi-award winning author who was brought up in Accrington. Her first book, a semi-autobiographical novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for Literature, and the subsequent TV adaptation, some of which was filmed in Accrington, a BAFTA. She has kindly allowed for us to include her words in the Winter Writing Trail.

🗣️ Julie Hesmondhalgh:

Julie grew up in Church, Accrington and went to Hyndburn Park, Moorhead High School and Accrington and Rossendale College. She is an actor and writer. Her latest book, An Actor’s Alphabet is published by Nick Hern Books. She is the proud patron of Maundy Relief.

📍View this story at Angela Kay’s Beauty Salon, 46 Warner St, Accrington

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 This is Winter by Ezra Emmett, aged 13, The Hollins

🗣️ Read by Toby Jones:

Toby is widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in Great Britain and internationally. These include Dobby the House Elf in Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Captain America, The Detectorists, Dad’s Army, Jurassic World and many more.

📍 View this story at Croppers Butchers & Deli, 31 Blackburn Rd, Accrington

🙌🏻 Prize sponsored by Taskers of Accrington

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 Billy & Jack by Ian Kershaw

🗣️ Ian Kershaw:

Ian was born and brought up in Oldham and is a writer for theatre, radio and television. He is part of the Coronation Street writing team, and is married to an Accy Girl, whose mum introduced him to the Lancashire expression “suited to bits.”

📍View this story at Seventy Bob Barbers & Hairdressing, 7 Peel St, Accrington BB5 1EA

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 Christmas Story by Oliver Flynn, aged 8, St John’s Stonefield CE Primary School

🗣️ Read by Dominic Brunt:

Dominic is an actor, director and writer, and plays Paddy in Emmerdale. He lived in Accrington on Burnley Road from 1981 until 1991. He attended Accrington Moorhead High School. On leaving school he worked as a sheet metal worker in Great Harwood and later as a welder in Accrington.

📍 View this story at The Watch Workshop, 19 Peel St, Accrington

🙌🏻 Prize sponsored by Bevlan Office Interiors

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#AmazingAccrington Winter Writing Trail:

✍🏻 I was raised in a land of mills and drizzle by David Hesmondhalgh

🗣️ David Hesmondhalgh:

David was born and raised in Accrington, taught at Accrington and Rossendale College and is now a Professor at the University of Leeds. He has written several books including Why Music Matters.

📍View this story at Church Street Chippy, 27 Church St, Accrington

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