Report - Arghi Barghi, Macclesfield Sept 2016

[Ojay]

I thought Mendo was first in that place ?

 

[Mondeo]

I thought this was named by Paul Powers on account of there being a nearby italian restaurant? [Edit: Thanks for clearing up @Mondeo !]

Just curious, as I like local slang, what does it mean?

No idea why everyone calls it that, always been know by the locals, doesn't mean anything just easier to say I guess.

Looks tidier than my 2008 visit, which is now archived on an abandoned urbex site

M.

 

[Mondeo]

I thought Mendo was first in that place ?

Pretty sure he was down there a week or so after me, I remember him messaging me about it,

 

[Ojay]

I thought you were mendo

 

[pastybarm]

What's behind them big flaps, judging from the wet wipes, a CSO or sewer?

 

[Ojay]

It’s a sewer overflow

 

[Mondeo]

I thought you were mendo

Nope, unfortunately not,

What happened to him after nwex? He used to post loads of good northwest sites,

 

[Ojay]

CBA kicked in and he spent his days trolling Bnugle

 

[pastybarm]

What's bnugle? Or did you mean bugle for coke?

 

[Yorrick]

nearby italian restaurant?

Arighi Bianchi is a furniture shop not a restaurant.

Arghi barghi is a corruption of argie bargie / argy bargy / argle bargle, meaning a verbal dispute. From the Scottish argle meaning to argue.

What's bnugle?

Member on here I believe

 

[pastybarm]

Arghi barghi is a corruption of argie bargie / argy bargy / argle bargle, meaning a verbal dispute. From the Scottish argle meaning to argue.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I do remember it being one or t'other. Strange name for a furniture shop though I must say, but then the urbexers in Cheshire must be a posher lot, you have waitrose in those parts I do believe, hahaha. I realize about the member now, do believe it was meant to be Bungle. No worries.

 

[Yorrick]

Strange name for a furniture shop though

Antonio Arighi and Antonio Bianchi were two Italian immigrants who founded the shop in 1854.

the urbexers in Cheshire must be a posher lot, you have waitrose in those parts I do believe,

I wouldn't know, I'm from Leicester.

 

[pastybarm]

Ah, fair enough, thought it sounded Italian. 1854! Strange place for two italians to decamp and set up shop all those years back, but one learns something new everyday.

No worries, I did mean the local cheshire urbexers. No harm, nor foul intended.

 

[Yorrick]

Strange place for two italians to decamp and set up shop all those years back

The Napoleonic wars left northern Italy with a destroyed agriculture and consequently many farmers were forced to emigrate, a few thousand moved to the British isles (and many more to the US) in the first half of the nineteenth century, followed by other trades following the collapse of the economy.

No harm, nor foul intended.

None perceived dude.

 

[Mondeo]

CBA kicked in and he spent his days trolling Bnugle

I thought he might have ended up in Guantanamo bay after his airport culvert report,