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Wiend 1974
Wiend 1974
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 21229
Photograph submitted by Marguerite Isherwood. showing a view of the Wiend taken from Millgate

Comment by: Thomas(Tom) on 10th August 2012 at 00:34

Ron,I don't recognise the building on the right,I may be wrong,but I don't think this is the Wiend,I seem to be know the building but can't place it.
Marguerite and Ron thank you for this series of photograghs,they are so interesting.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 10th August 2012 at 09:52

Tom, yes it is definitely the Wiend there are other photographs on the site taken from more or less the same spot.

Comment by: Al. C. on 10th August 2012 at 10:16

If I remember rightly Ezra Sidebotham's (Printers) was on the left just out of shot.

Comment by: irene roberts on 10th August 2012 at 11:07

The cobbled street going off is The Wiend. The bits the girls are walking along is Millgate.

Comment by: Dave Marsh on 10th August 2012 at 11:47

I think Clarington Forge had a depot one time in the yard under the arch.I worked in both of Tom Whalley's shops in The Wiend and Millgate.Wonderful bits of history under both buildings but no one ever seemed interested.

Comment by: Thomas(Tom) Walsh , on 10th August 2012 at 13:15

Ron,thank you ,it's strange how your memory plays tricks,I used to cut through the Wiend every day for nearly 8yrs,I mst have been half asleep.
Thanks again Tom.

Comment by: T REEVES on 10th August 2012 at 17:17

DONT LOOK LIKE THE WIEND TO ME EITHER TOM

Comment by: RON HUNT on 10th August 2012 at 17:21

The same photograph is on the site under MILLGATE

Comment by: Mick on 10th August 2012 at 20:33

Definitely the Weind at its junction with Millgate.
If you download the pic, and juggle about with the Brightness/Contrast, the name 'Weind' can be seen on the street sign on the wall, just to the left of the door of Muriel's shop.

Comment by: Alba on 12th August 2012 at 20:02

You are all going back,But can you remember Wm Parkes having their steel warehouse up there?? As a boy in the 40,si remember
Going there and collecting a 10/12 ft bar of steel for school metalwork and proceeding to carry it all the way to Whelley School. They afterwards re-located the warehouse into their main worka at Clarington Forge

Comment by: t reeves on 18th August 2012 at 06:52

is it not brick kiln lane

Comment by: Ben on 18th September 2012 at 02:30

I get it now! It's taken from in front of the civic building, if you turned to your left the new library would be in front of you. The "Face of Wigan" is where this building was.

Comment by: irene roberts on 18th September 2012 at 19:58

You've got it, Ben. Hard to imagine though, isn't it? I wish it was still like in the picture; I hate the Glass Box and especially that head!

Comment by: Veronica on 23rd September 2019 at 19:19

Irene is right, many a time I would go up Millgate and cut through where the girls are to go round and down the Wiend.

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