WHEN this picture appeared in the Evening News in November, 1961, it said that the bungalow into which a newly married couple had moved almost a year previously might be described as a house with a view - "but it isn't a very pleasant view."

However, the story went on: "It is a wall of old buses, put there to hide an even more unsightly panorama of old cabins and caravans, shattered glass, burned-out seats, tyres, scrap metal, bus frames, and a half-built shed which is reported to be overrun by rats."

When Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Hargreaves had moved into their dream home at 24 Brookhouse Avenue, Farnworth, the land behind was tidy.

Then the owner of the land brought old scrap buses on it to be dismantled, and put up the wall of buses "to protect the houses from the smoke and dust, and to put other rubbish out of view."