Wigan Album

smashing foto
very nostalgic

The chap bottom left looks as if he's just escaped.

Tommy, thats a crackin' pic. Thanks for putting it on.

Super photo can,t get enough of the old Central Line
any more available?

Great picture we used to swim in them waters we use to call them the G.C waters, but the station was Abram,Platt Bridge & Bickershaw

was the GC not further down the line Mark
just after Hindley south station

Fantastic picture. I've cycled this part of the railway many times, although it's very overgrown. More of the same please

This is a picture worth being framed and hung in the Archives Heritage centre AS WE WERE -- Smashing reminded me of my Dad as a Driver I cannot stop looking at it

This ought to be Framed and hung in the Heritage Caentre ==As we Were== smashing picture cannot give over looking at it , it reminded me of my Dad a Driver

What we used to call the G.C. where we used to swim was further along the line, the railway ran between the G.C.and the Greenwaters, nobody swam in the Greenwaters, If you went into the G.C. any sores or scratches you had would be clean when you came out, the said it was because of the sulpher in the water.

this is definetly the GC,been on ot many a time.Don't know about sulphur in it but plenty dead dogs & cats

Come on tom johnny cash would have wrote a ballad for a shot so good ta!

The pond in the picture was called the gc by people in hindley.People from ince called the pond opposite the green water the gc.People from hindley called called it the raynor .It did at one time get polluted with sulphur and nothing lived in it.everyone used to go swimming in its very clear water Happy days

Spot on there.Is that Paul Southworth,my cousin? I remember my Dad telling me that some German bombs fell in the G.C.during WW2.They were probably after the railway line.
I used to think it was called the Gee Sea.

I remember as a lad in the 1950s walking inside the walls of HMP Hindley. That's all there was, just a concrete walled area, grass inside no building work nothing! I did not know at the time the intended purpose of the site which made the discovery even more amazing.

The top end of the picture was the rocky end where us biky lads swam. The bay where the young lad is sat was a sandy bottom if.i Could turn back time the taylors southworths
Scotts.and lots more if only 40+50s funny later on I fired steamtrain from Wigan to Manchester and back