Wigan Album

If you look back a fortnight in the Album you'll find I sent a pic in which the lower building featured, and I followed it up with a theory that the building there now (as seen on Google Earth) is the same as the one here - albeit much-altered. The alterations appeared to be that the back-to-back cottages of which the shop is the gable-end - a row under each pitched roof seen here - were joined together under a new, single-pitched roof. As back-to-backs are generally a sign that the buildings are probably early 19th century, that would lead me to think that the upper picture here is of the same gable-end in an earlier period. Judging by the fact that the first door down the side is a few yards from the corner, I would say that the shop was built as seen in the top pic, across the gable-end of the two rows. It may even have started off life as a cottage, rather than a shop.

Just wanted to say that I have the original Appley Bridge Post Office Stamp.