Wigan Album

Still there, and has been made into apartments, but to we who were children in Ince it will always be the home of the ghost of Kitty-Beawt-Yed, who haunted our childhood days!

The lady that you mentioned there Irene, Kitty-Beawt-Yed. I'm sure that's the same lady that attempted to teach me French at secondary school. I'd often wondered what became of her.

Just after World War Two the RAF overflew the area and the photographs they took clearly shows the old loop carriage drive you can make out in this illustration.

I am ashamed to say I don't know much about this hall I will have to read up on it. my grt grandparents lived in Ince in a street off Wray St. they also had a shop - dealing in fish and vegetables I believe.

irene you commented on one of the other photos of ince hall saying the andertons lived there, yes he did own the anderton arms which i beleave to be the only one remaining out of three, i never got to know why it got it nick name long neck, some say it was becoz it was called the swan an others say someone hung their self. wonder which is true

Talk-talk, I am not sure how it got its name, and I don't think anyone else is, to be honest! When I was a little girl, the tale was that someone had hanged himself there, but children will always believe the scariest story, because they WANT TO! I have since heard that one of the bricks had a swan engraved in it, but that it's (conveniently!) one behind the Anderton Arms sign, so it can't be seen. We will probably never know, but we can always wonder!

The house is Elizabethan, and the wide windows indicate that wool was woven here. We are looking downhill at this side so it must be the back of the present house. It would appear that the entire house was remodelled in the Regency period, or not long thereafter.

My Great, Great, Great grandfather and his family the Lancasters, mining engineers and later colliery proprietors lived at Ince Hall in the 1850's.

Doing family tree and appears our ancestors, the Gerrardes lived there in 1500s

There have been a few postings of Ince Hall of which there seemed to be quite a few Ince Hall's dotted about.
On one of the postings in the past I made a comment about the MD of a company I worked for in Exmouth in the early 1980's, his name was John Smiles who lived in Amersham, he said his ancestors lived in Ince Hall and this looks very similar to a framed print he showed me.
His wife who was quite gentile said she would like to visit imagining that they served cream teas! I just smiled politely think not. Such was life in the home counties.
I took a photo copy but that is long since gone.