‘Our Little Hamlet Known as Gregson Lane’ (or, Don't Go Out, There's a Boggart About)
Our Little Hamlet Known as Gregson Lane (Song) In November 2024, a musical play will be performed in Gregson Lane Community Centre. It has been written by Graham and Bernadette Dixon, who make up the folk duo Trouble At Mill , and for 36 years have run Gregson Lane Folk Club, and also by Veronica Redmond. The play is based around some of Trouble At Mill's songs, which have a local flavour, and tells the history of Gregson Lane. It is a community project; local residents will take on roles and will sing the songs. As a regular at the Folk Club, I have a small part in the play, and to complement the production I have put together my own brief history of the ‘Little Hamlet known as Gregson Lane’. Gregson Lane is situated at the eastern boundary of the former Township of Walton-le-Dale, where it meets the Parish of Brindle. Today it is a village that forms half of the ward of Gregson Lane and Coupe Green, in the sprawling borough of South Ribble, but up until the middle of t