EMIGRANT Ken Eglin came home for a holiday to Burnley in time to snatch a photo of his old church before it was demolished.

Prior to moving to Canada, he had been a choirboy at James’s and later ran the scout troop.

He went to Toronto in 1954, but returned for the first time for a holiday in 1969 to see his mum gladys, who lived in Cuerden Street.

He also had a brother Arthur, who lived in Barden Lane.

And his first impression of visiting his old home town was ‘Boy, has this place changed.

We came into Bank Top station near where we used to live, but I did not recognise a thing’.

Ken brought his wife Dorothy and four daughters on the visit and there was a reunion dinner for family at the Sparrow Hawk Hotel.

He planned to visit the Trough of Bowland where he used to cycle as a youngster and Blackpool, as well as climb Pendle Hill.

Ken was a pupil of Todmorden Road Central School and served his apprenticeship with Butterworth and Dickinson of Rosegrove, before going to work at Joseph Lucas.