The Pike — A Poem For Lancashire Day
Time to honour our gradely county* for Lancashire Day so I wrote about The Pike — a part of the landscape I see first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
Lancashire Day is on 27th November every year.
*REAL Lancashire includes Barrow-in-Furness to Manchester. Reet.
Matthew Craig 
Cheryl Doran 
Ian Smith 
Sarah W 
Wikipedia 
IG @kiwinde
Pikes arrrs
Sez womon
In Aggy Cwop
Horwich Mon
Sez think
Thee not
Jog on
Borth sez
Belmont lad
That hills ars
Since me Dars Da
Da Da were a bairn
All of you
Best think on
Lord Lever scoffs
The Pike is
On my map
For the Bolton riff raff
To roll down on
Good Friday and
Crack their craniums
Folks aboon
out tha
minds surely
Council chap
Puts Pike
In Chorley
Even e
Groans at
Ar futility
Govment sold
Land tuh
Watter utilities
Hang on high land
Wer a
Celtic throne
Bin ar beacon
Fer last
Millennium
Me make
Rivington
Cup ring stone
Pidgin
Flaps
Iridescent wings
Red rose
Head nods
Intuh wind
Mam Nature
Owd as hill
Sez Pikes
Fer evrewun
Allus wer
Allus will
Many thanks to all the photographers who contributed images of The Pike. Please follow their Instagram accounts to see the rest of their eye-catching images:
- Ian Smith IG @butchers_lad
- Matthew Craig IG @matts_journey
- Cheryl Doran IG @Chereel
- IG @kiwinde
- Sarah W IG @nerdygrrrl
About The Author
Nikki
I live in the North of England and spend a lot of time trying to get a toddler dressed in the morning, then the afternoon, then I give up and let her stay in her pyjamas because it's nearly bedtime again. I also like to help people who are stuck for words. That's it really. Those two things. It's a nice life. Come find me online and say a BIG HELLO :-)
!Brilliant!
Thank you
So nice!
Awesome!
Yeah, I grew up and the Pike was always there off in the distance. Not been up top for many a year, but it’s a stunning spot.
It really is. It seems to me the landscape that surrounds you becomes you too. Whitworth Street in Manchester is magical to me too.
I live near there! That area of the centre is glorious. They even tore the Berlin Wall down in Picc Gardens recently!
It’s really nice and spacious and surprisingly quiet. I still have my first flat on the street so I get to go back fairly often.
Oooh good. It was an eyesore and a half. Those metal trees kill me. Did David Hasselhoff sing as it was pulled down?
The Hoff should have been there but, alas, I believe he wasn’t. A tragedy.
I went into town on Sunday for the first time since the wall was taken down. So pleased to see the back of the horrible thing! It looks so much better now.
Ahh fantastic good to know Thanks for the post like.
Coming to this one a little late, I know, but we share an affection for the Pike. I too had a view of it from my bedroom window for most of my growing up, when lived at Coppull.