My Time Living In Old Langho.

A Memory of Old Langho.

I moved to Old Langho in I think in 1954, I was an orphan I went to live with Mr and Mrs Pye.
We lived at number 42 Larkhill, Mr and Mrs Pye where nurses at Brockhall hospital.
There is a bit of a field between the two rows of houses we used to play football on.
bonfires on November 5th.There was a bit of a wood separating the estate and the main road where the buses to Blackburn used to pull in,there was a rough dirt track round the back of the house where we used to bomb up and down on our bikes.
About 1956 we moved to Brookside, a bigger house if I remember.
I to go playing in the woods with another lad from the estate I cannot remember his name,
We had a dog as a friend at the time rin tin tin was big on the tv. we used to play cowboys.
I remember once I rode my bike to the woods parked it by the fence when I got back the bike had gone, apparently one of the Brockhall residents had ( escaped ) and stole my bike. A few days later it was found in Blackpool.
Down the road on the corner there was a shop run by a Mrs Proctor, a nice little shop that seemed to sell everything.
Further on from there is the Black bull pub, opposite was a farm owned by a Mr Arthur
Iveson, he was a pig farmer with a few cows if I remember,he used to let me watch him feed them and pick up the piglets,he was a tall man who used to chew tobacco, we heard rumours that him and Mrs proctor where getting married whether that happened I don’t know. In 1960 we moved away I remember when we drove off I had a little tear in my eyes.
We moved to a small village called Culcheth on the other side of Leigh in Lancashire but that is another story. Terence pye

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