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Accrington MCC...
We meet every Thursday night around 9p.m. at the Hope and Anchor pub, Whalley Road, Accrington.
We have male and female Bike and Trike riders within our club and many friends from other clubs who drop by too. We hold several events during the year, Valentines Party, Off Yer Sprocket Rally (formerly the Reeferknot Rally), Bike Show, Halloween Party and a ride-out, to two animal sanctuaries. We also support various charities... see below.
We enjoy a good party and as a club we attend several rallies and rock events around the country each year. We have a rally sec who sees to it that we get tickets for all the biking events that we wish to attend, we are associate members of M.A.G. (motorcycle action group) and N.A.B.D. (National Association of Bikers with a Disability...affiliaton membership No. AC 0288) and we enjoy benefits of cheaper bike insurance through the website. 
Come and join us for a drink or two and chat about forthcoming parties, events and rallies.
You might even like to join us on rides out.
Most of all, enjoy yourself alongside a great bunch of fellow enthusiasts and party animals.
We run our club as a Democracy and we are open to suggestions. All you need to do to become a member of Accrington MCC is come along to a few meeetings and join us at a rally.... oh! and pay your subs, which entitle you to a few Accrington benefits.
Supported Charities
Some of the charities that have benefitted over the last few years:
Accrington Pals Memorial:
Salvation Army:
Lennox Childrens Home:
Derian House:
James Worsley Trust Fund:
RSPCA at Altham: Bleak Holt Animal Sanctuary: donations in memory of Amy Houston to her favourite charity - RSPCA:
Alex Home:
North West Air Ambulance:
NABD:
East Lancs Hospice:
Accrington
A little something about Accrington itself.
Accrington derives its name from Acre-Tun , meaning a settlement surrounded by an oak forest . It is of Saxon origin and in 1800 it was little more than a village.
By the 1850's it had become an important stop on the coach road between Manchester and Clitheroe.
As with all Lancashire towns, the Industrial Revolution changed its status and the availability of water power and coal quickly established a thriving cotton industry in the late 18 th century.
Steeped in history, there is a memorial to the famous Accrington Pals Regiment , which was all but decimated during the trench conflicts of the First World War.
The market hall is an architectural gem, built in 1869, selling traditional Lancashire fare and on the exterior you can find stone carvings of poultry and farm animals.
The Town Hall was built in 1858 in the Italianate style as a memorial to Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the statesman who founded the police force.
The Hargreaves family have been synonymous with the cotton industry in the town and one member, Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, was the husband of Alice Liddell – the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland .
Accrington is also famous for its red “Nori” bricks, which came about when the mould was spelt wrongly as it should have read “Iron” due to the strength of these industrial building blocks.
Who hasn't heard of Accrington Stanley ? One of the founder members of the Football League, and who re-found fame in the TV advert for milk with the little Scouser who remarked “Accrington Stanley, who are they”?
