Pickup Bank/Hoddlesden In The 1950s

A Memory of Hoddlesden.

I grew up (I hesitate to say I reached adulthood) on Pickup Bank, the moors around Hoddlesden in the 1950s to 60s. Went to Hoddlesden school and from thence to Darwen Grammar School. I would like to place on record that on our way home from school, just as we left the cobbles of Hoddlesden we passed The Bump Hole, or it may have been, The Bum Pole. We took our battery radio ‘accumulators’ to be recharged there??? Also further on, towards the moors of Pickup Bank, where my school friend , Roger Townsend lived, was an old mill house that we called Thow’d Ingin (The Old Engine). I wish these old names were on record and wouldn’t die out. My ashes will be strewn there, Pickup Bank. 💕💕💕