Wigan Album
Bottling Wood
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 30051
This is the estate visible on the ridge behind the old houses on Coppull Lane in Bottling Wood seen in old photographs.
There may have been earlier Council Houses built by private contractors.
Is these houses still there.
The houses in Bottling Wood are identical to those in Beech Hill. It appears that the Bottling Wood estate was built first.
The first council houses were Guildford Cres. and Thickness Ave. Beech Hill.
We moved into an identical house to these in Bluebell Ave, Beech Hill in 1951. Our elderly next door neighbours had been the first tenants in their house in 1929.
Notice how the gable end is built using a cheaper common brick than the facing brick at the front. The rear is also built with cheaper brick. Obviously a cost-cutting exercise. Nevertheless they are extremely well built.
Poplar Avenue Pemberton must have been council houses built around 1926-28 as my parents moved into their 1st house in October 1928 and were the 2nd tenants of the property. Father collected the keys from the Borough Treasurers Office on their way back from honeymoon.The 1st tenant was emigrating to Australia with his family and suggested to Father to apply for it. Both worked at Massey Bros. in Enfield Street) Looking at the 1928/29 map the estate was expanding.
Now the house is privately owned.
John D - that was a common way of building most houses.