FIRST with the answer to last week's puzzle was Mike Lamb, who had no difficulty spotting coal barges bringing coal to Whitebirk Power Station.

He lived in the area as a child and often played with his mates on the banks of the canal - one of their activities was to put together make shift rafts - but then beat a hasty retreat to the bank when the coal barges came in sight.

Mike recalled : "Warm water used to be fed into the canal by an outlet pipe from the cooling towers and we also used to fish just there, as it attracted chub, bream and perch."

The power station was opened in 1921 by Blackburn Corporation, but in an administrative mix-up was actually built on land at the other side of the border, in Rishton.