Wigan Album

Ann - the men are standing near the Old Machine pub, on the corner of Ormskirk Rd and White St.
Pow Hillock is across the road where the George Inn is, on the corner of Ormskirk Rd and Fleet St. If you look carefully just to the left of the lamp post on the George Inn wall, you can see the Fleet St street sign.

What a brilliant photo. Is that where the Kentucky Fried Chicken is now.

Mick, my grandmother, who only died a few years ago aged 98 always said she thought the `Pow` referred to the lamp post in the middle of the road. If it wasn`t the lamp-post, what was the `pow`. Ann

Pow Hillock was a piece of land on the corner of Fleet St where the stocks were, There is a postcard of it on Lamberhead Green on the albumn

Does anyone know anything about `Lambert`s Head Tavern`. I found a reference to Lambert`s Head Tavern Barracks, a few years ago, and a photo of a group of very young `recruits` in uniform. It was somewhere near `Pow Hillock`. Ann

Just love this photo and especially that "walking stick"

Looks like the chap with the stick has an american cavalry hat on?

Was the old Machine Pub what is now the bikes and Pram shop at the top of Pem, opposite the White Swan (other side of White St)

That's right Carol. It stood derelict for a good few years, and was then opened as Stuart Paul shoes, in the early '80s. Later became the bike shop.

Ken Dodd did the opening of Pauls Shoes.

Great photo.Mick, thanks.
Cannot get my bearings though. Is Pow (pole) Hillock in front of the George Hotel?

The photographer would be stood on the corner of 'The White Swan' looking diagonally across the roads - White Street and Fleet Street and the main Rd up to Orrell.

Poll hillock in front of George inn was a meeting place for preachers of the day one was james tricket and had a church built bottom of Fleet Street.

what a fantastic photo Ann the history you give with it is really something thankyou for posting it