A black Kia is still parked outside the bungalow once occupied by Val Taylor, a retired nursery manager who cared for generations of children in Burnley. But the property otherwise looks abandoned; windows are coated in dust, grass has grown wild and the front door is boarded up.
For neighbours, it is a reminder of the moment in February last year when police broke in to find the body of the 72-year-old. She had died of a heart attack. It was some time later that, neighbours say, officials representing the royals turned up on their street.
