I’ve had a walk up into the village for first an eye test and secondly a trim at Phil’s, my barber, before my trip away next week. (See my next post for unashamedly advance publicity)
I will share with you some sights in our high street.
First as I walk up the road a mobile climbing wall going somewhere. I didn’t have chance to get on it. Parked outside the Yorkshire Building Society I suspect it was an interloper into Lancashire rock.
Higher up the street, it is quite steep, outside the primary school is our world famous longest surviving lollipop lady – Irene. Well a foot high celebration of her, the real one is on holiday. She even has her own wiki page
“Irene Reid, MBE (born 1940 or 1941) is a British lollipop lady who in 2017 was declared the UK’s longest-serving lollipop lady.
Reid works as a lollipop lady in Longridge, covering the school crossing on Berry Lane, earning her a 2003 award for The Golden Jubilee Lollipop Person of the year. In 2012, she was declared the longest-serving lollipop lady in Lancashire and was awarded a MBE by Elizabeth II for her services to road safety.
She has been outspoken about crossing safety for children, openly criticising plans by Lancashire County Council in 2014 to reduce funding for crossing patrols. By 2021, she had been working as a lollipop lady for 53 years. Reid also worked with the Longridge Youth and Community Centre for a decade. She has four children, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. She appeared on the British television game show Blankety Blank in 2021″
They say things come in threes so I wander to the entrance to Towneley Gardens where at the moment there is a dazzling floral display, courtesy of Go Plants from down the road.
It’s not a bad place to live.
