Wigan Album
Wallgate
8 CommentsPhoto: DTease
Item #: 31356
In Wigan Town did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Giro, the sacred river ran
Through the fingers of feckless man
To pay for an endless spree.
With apologies to Mr Coleridge.
I like the ‘No Entry’ sign stuck on the Pub wall.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here!
Apart from that car, it could have been taken yesterday. more old photos please.
I have been told, many years ago, that my great grandfather was once the licensee of the Victoria, middle to the late eighteen hundreds. How true it is, I do not know. His surname was Green.. Many a hour I had positioned myself, in front of the Clarence, directing traffic out of King Street, and also in a north, and south direction. Before the M6 was opened.
Who was Harry - he seemed to own a lot of bars all over the place? He's probably 'gone under' by now!
A relative of mine runs that pub now..
Used to leave there and cross the road to the Stable Bar. Everyone scrambled to get their round in one of those two bars because the next stop was the Beer Kellar and you didn’t want to get your round in there.
Come on Alan! Hurry up, we’re all looking forward to having a dig at YOUR contribution.
The mid 1980s Nissan Sunny car indicates that this photograph was probably taken in the 1990s on a quiet day with no people present. I don't know the year when two way traffic between King Street and Library Street finished but was after 1988 when the new bus station opened. Note the tower and bell of St Joseph's RC church in the distance that closed in 1995.
The original Harry's Bar is in Venice where the Bellini cock-tail was invented. That's Prosecco and peach juice. Very popular with the ladies !