Wigan Album

Our family came from Wallgate and my grandma used to go there so my dad told me,I don't know if it's true,but he said while she was watching a film,a voice came over the tannoy and said "Mrs Mcgovern,please go home as your son has nearly DROWNDED"-that was how he pronounced it,my dad like everyone learned to swim in the 'cut' as it was known then and had fallen in,God luv him.

Lower down than caroline st and after clayton st.Known as the "scratch". I wonder why !

It was next door to the Grapes pub and was converted to a sewing factory called Margaret Works.