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Im trying to work out where in Parsons walk this photo was taken. The only thing I can think of is that it was taken prior to Mesnes park was created. Could that be where the park is now, where that brick wall is, to the left of the photo?

I'm pretty sure that the house you can just make out on the right is still there. It was a doctor's surgery and then it became Drumcoon Art centre. Behind the wall is now Wigan Tech. and my old 'Alma Mater' the Thomas Linacre School

i think you are about right there Ron, when upstairs on the bus going towards Park Road / Woodhouse Lane etc, you could see over wall, and there and further back, towards town centre, over the wall the ground was quite high, and if memory serves me right, there were always sheep to be seen which seems odd now, so close to town centre.

The road in the right foreground must be the rear access to the old Gas showrooms/Rushton's warehouse.
The Doctor who had his surgery at Drumcroon for years was
Dr Talwryn-Jones.

Was't Mesnes park opened around the 1890s.If Mick is right,and that is drumcroon,the wall on the left hand side is where Wigan college now stands.Could the wall be the boundary of the rectors house?

Over the wall was the "Bull Hey" (not the cricket field) where the livestock were deposited to feed & rest before slaughter. As opposed to Hal hal meat, which has to be slaughtered "at the height of it's being", meaning in fear & it's meat "pumped up"

I suppose the gas lamp gives us a clue as to the year..there are absolutely no electric lamposts in sight.

One thing is prominent... there are no yellow lines either....

the wall is the of same design as the one on frog lane