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Central Park
Central Park
Photo: DTease
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Item #: 30632
Originally Central Park, now Tesco's. One for the Latics fans to gloat over.

Comment by: Syd on 7th July 2018 at 13:31

What a tragic sight that is!
very, very sad indeed.

Comment by: Theresa Reeves on 8th July 2018 at 08:10

What's the building Behind st George's now nursing home ??

Comment by: DerekB on 8th July 2018 at 13:29

Theresa, none of the buildings in this shot are St. George's which is on the side of the river Douglas opposite what was Central Park. The two buildings are (I think) what was the girls convent and St. John's church.

Comment by: Ray on 8th July 2018 at 13:30

That's not St Georges. It's St Marys school on the Standishgate side of the ground with the church behind it.

Comment by: t on 8th July 2018 at 18:16

dtease, why would latics fans gloat over it ?? enlighten me.

Comment by: Philip Cunliffe on 8th July 2018 at 19:27

I can t give a date but the Convent was knocked down well before Central Park was sadly demolished

Comment by: Tony M on 8th July 2018 at 20:15

St Marys church and school on Standishgate. St johns church can just be seen poking out on left of school. Convent was pulled down over 30years before this was taken.

Comment by: DTease on 8th July 2018 at 20:22

t, there as been a long standing animosity between SOME Latics fans and SOME Wigan Rugby fans.
Some Latics fans were not slow to make their feelings known when Central Park was demolished.

Comment by: Poet on 8th July 2018 at 22:38

The Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson was a great admirer of northern grittiness and in particular Wiganners. He wrote:

Blackpool was holidays.
Manchester was the Test.
Barrow for ships, Whitehaven for coal
Millom of course for men
And Wigan for a damned good try.

As I huff and grate and fill my lungs and eye
The once for all starting bell
God grant me guts to die
Giving it Wigan.

Nicholson's phrase Giving it Wigan is well known around Barrow and Millom and is used to describe dogged determination in adversity.
Manchester University's 2014 exhibition of his work was entitled Giving it Wigan.

Let's all Give it Wigan!

Comment by: Howard P on 9th July 2018 at 16:30

I suspect money talks.

Comment by: Alan H on 12th July 2018 at 14:46

Howard P ,I suspect that the money went into the back pocket of a certain gentleman

Comment by: peter on 19th July 2018 at 14:25

wish wigan rugby was still playing at central park . instead of the football orientated dw stadium.

Comment by: t on 22nd July 2018 at 18:34

blame a certain mr robinson for that.

Comment by: Mr X on 22nd July 2018 at 20:20

The last rugby match at Central Park was in September 1999 and by the end of the year it was completely demolished. St Mary's RC church is the dominant building, and the former St Mary's school is next door.

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