I made Wycoller my home

English Teacher are an indie/post-punk band from Leeds. Their latest single contains a Brontë reference linked to Wycoller Hall. Lancashire Telegraph reports:

A band is notching up national radio airplay with a song dedicated to an East Lancs town’s engineering marvel.

English Teacher’s new single ‘T
he World’s Biggest Paving Slab’, now on the BBC Radio Six playlist, was inspired by the two-tonne stone outside Colne Town Hall.

Lead singer Lily Fontaine grew up in the Pendle town and name-checks several iconic figures in the release, which features a video shot in and around Colne.

John Simm and Lee Ingleby, from nearby Nelson, pop up in the first verse, as do the Pendle Witches and Colne’s famous R&B festival. And later she references the historic village of Wycoller and explores its links with Charlotte Brontë. (Peter Magill)

The lyrics contain the verses:

 I am the world's biggest paving slab

But I sit here quietly

No one ever looks down at the ground

Yeah, no one ever notices me

I wish I were born a stone

I made Wycoller my home

Haunting with Charlotte Brontë

I'm not the terrorist of Talbot street

But I think that ruins have beauty