BACK in the 50s there was a comm-unity of terraces in the shadow of India Mill in the Greenbank area of Blackburn.

Today the rows of houses are no more and the Graham and Brown factory stands on the site.

But one person who is anxious to learn more the homes and the people who lived there, is Lee Fallon, who found out his desk now stands in what would have been the kitchen of 11, Crown Street.

But it, along with Abbott St, Dryden Street, Tower Street and Haygarth Street, which were off Harwood Street, were demolished more than 40 years ago.

Lee, recently asked for readers help in finding out more about the community and thanks to all the readers who replied - including one of you who wrote out the names of all the people who lived in every house in the five streets, as listed in Barratt's directory, 1951.

Looking Back also heard from Mrs Joan Dean, who lived at 7, Abbott Street until she was 22. Her grandmother first lived in the house, then her mum and dad Jim and Sally Richards, who are pictured here standing in the cobbled street outside their home 1950/51.

Jim was an iron dresser at British Northrop where he worked for 50 years, while Sally was a weaver at India Mill, known locally as Owd Gant's'.

Number 7 was the only house in the area with a bath, which had been installed on its own in one of the three bedrooms, although there was only an outside tippler toilet.

Joan remembers the Thomas Bolton corner shop at the end of Crown Street and that Haygarth Street had cinders not cobbles and houses down just one side. On the other were pens, where local residents kept their chickens.