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Mill Lane Cottage Appley Bridge
Mill Lane Cottage Appley Bridge
Photo: Martn Taylor
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This cottage was situate on Mill Lane Appley Bridge at the now entrance to what was the Watersedge pub car park. From memory I think it belonged to someone who was indirectly related to our grandparents family and possibly the occupants were employed as canal workers in some discipline. Can anyone help with its history? The cottage as I remember was derelict during the 1950s

Comment by: winnie on 11th April 2017 at 16:14

what your grandparents names and date of birth

Comment by: Mick on 11th April 2017 at 22:31

The cottage is to long ago for me to remember Martin, but I remember your name, did you live opposite the railway pub

Comment by: Martin Taylor on 12th April 2017 at 10:08

Grand parents were Arthur & Jane Winnard, however I think there may be a Butler link somewhere.
Yes Mick I did live opposite the Lino Works.

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 14:51

Google The Memories of Mildred Yates this is from it In those days I remember the older people used to call Mill Lane “thowd cart road”.
As you enter Mill Lane from Appley Lane there are two houses which stand back and
have gardens running down to the road. Facing them is a newly built house on the
right hand side and then a row of six cottages called Glovers Row. When electricity
came to Appley Bridge in the 1930’s a sub-station was built opposite them. Further
along on the left is another row of houses known as Butler’s Houses. Mr. Butler
Senior was landlord of the Railway Hotel and he had six daughters; he built a house
for each of them at the beginning of the 1900’s. By 1911 he had built two more
houses next to them, one of which was for his son, my Uncle Harry, who married my
mother’s sister, my Auntie Maggie.
Across the road from those two houses was where the canal widened and it was
called the canal basin. On the edge of the canal there was a little cottage called Basin
Cottage and there were stables behind where they had the quarry horses and
overnight boat horses. Behind the stables were the lines which ran down from
Dawber Quarry, under the railway bridge which ran under the end of the station
platform and the goods line, across the road and down to a little jetty on the canal.
Five or six little trucks, loaded with stone, would run downhill together to the canal
to be loaded onto a boat. There used to be a man at the back to put a brake on and
they used a horse to pull the trucks back up the hill to the quarry when they were
empty. Now, where the track came down is the Telephone Exchange, a new house,
and a railway bridge over the road.
On the right hand side, where the Water’s Edge Pub is, there used to be a croft with
shrubs and brambles and along there by the side of the railway was a footpath which
we used to go to school. The croft went quite a way back and then we came to two
more bridges under the railway; we had to go under the first one to get onto the path
that took us to school; the other bridge was used by the brickworks where they had
little tubs on pulleys that went to the clay pits (where the Barratt Estate is now). The
brickworks carted the bricks away with smaller lorries than we use today; they went
under the bridge and along a cart track which is now just a footpath between the
back of Mill Bank and Barratts, where The Dell is now. The bone works used that
track as well but most of their materials were on the railway sidings. The bone
works was behind the brickworks, between the canal and the railway. We used to
run to school alongside the railway and with the clay pits on the others side, we went
up some wooden steps then came to Bell’s farmyard, then onto Broadriding Road,
which was then a cart track, and which joins Miles Lane

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 15:11

Name: Arthur Winnard
Age in 1911: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1891
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Wrightington
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County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: Appley Bridge, Wigan Lancashire
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Apprentice Steam Engine Maker
Registration district: Wigan
Registration District Number: 458
Sub-registration district: Standish
ED, institution, or vessel: 10
Piece: 22957
Household Members:
Name Age
John Winnard 55
Mary Winnard 41
Arthur Winnard 20
Annie Winnard 15

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 15:24

Name Relation to Head Birth Date Age Gender Marital Status Occupation Birth Place Address
Henry Butler Head 1854 57 Male Married Stone Mason (Retered) Wrightington, Lancashire, England Butles Houses Appley Bridge Wrightington
Ellen Bulter Wife 1854 57 Female Married Wrightington, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Wrightington
Dorothy Butler Daughter 1897 14 Female School Wrightington, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Wrightington
Hugh Milia Boarder 1851 60 Male Single Falomer Wrightington, Lancashire, Ireland Butlers Houses Appeyly Bridge Wrightington

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 15:29

Name Relation to Head Birth Date Age Gender Marital Status Occupation Birth Place Address
James Barton Head 1875 36 Male Married Joiner Orrell, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Wrightington Lancs Appley Bridge
Alice Barton Wife 1874 37 Female Married Orrell, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Wrightington Lancs Appley Bridge
Evelyn Jessie Barton Daughter 1899 12 Female School Orrell, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Wrightington Lancs Appley Bridge
Frank Barton Son 1903 8 Male School Upholland, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Wrightington Lancs Appley Bridge

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 15:30

Name Relation to Head Birth Date Age Gender Marital Status Occupation Birth Place Address
Joseph Houghton Head 1851 60 Male Married Fireman At Borlers Steain At Stone Quarry Wigan, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan
Margaret Houghton Wife 1851 60 Female Married Appley Bridge, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan
James Houghton Son 1885 26 Male Single Sleain Prane Diwer Appley Bridge, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan
Annie Heyes Daughter 1888 23 Female Married Appley Bridge, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan
Robert Heyes Son-in-law 1886 25 Male Married Carter A Stone Quarry Lathom, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan
Margaret Heyes Granddaughter 1909 2 Female Appley Bridge, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge Nr Wigan

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 15:31

Name Relation to Head Birth Date Age Gender Marital Status Occupation Birth Place Address
Thomas Mawdsley Head 1854 57 Male Married Blacksmith Wrightington, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
Mary Mawdsley Wife 1852 59 Female Married Cumberland, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
William Edward Mawdsley Son 1892 19 Male Single Linoleum Manufacture Appley Bridge Upholland, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
Frank Mawdsley Nephew 1900 11 Male School Wrightington, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
James Blundell Nephew 1892 19 Male Single Linoleum Manufacture Crmskirk, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
Alma Blundell Niece 1896 15 Female Single Crmskirk, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge
Gessie Blundell Niece 1894 17 Female Single Domestic Servant Crmskirk, Lancashire, England Butlers Houses Appley Bridge

Comment by: winnie on 12th April 2017 at 17:41

all 1911 censers

Comment by: Mick on 12th April 2017 at 17:41

Some good work there Winnie

Comment by: Martin Taylor on 13th April 2017 at 12:46

Many thanks winnie and much appreciated. Mildred Jackson was my mums cousin. Mildred's mother Elizabeth (known to us as Aunty Lizzie) and Jane Winnard (my Nan) were half sisters having the same mother but different father.

Comment by: lesley williams on 14th May 2021 at 16:07

Hi Martin....what a shock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chris and I are trying to find a 'young' pic of Grandad? Can you help?
Lesley (nee Winnard)

Comment by: Sandra Wood on 15th May 2021 at 10:11

I worked with your sister Barbara at M&S, please send her my good wishes.

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