Wigan Album

Remember visiting and elderly relation there in the mid 60's, does anybody know when it was demolished?

Ron, whereabouts was this.

MarieM - it was on Billinge Road Pemberton, between Victoria St and Tunstall Lane, on the right hand side, as you travel towards Highfield.

The property was developed for housing; a cul-de-sac known as The Spinney

Mick, Thanks. Was it were the Spinney is now.

When the spinney was being built, all the houses were built on piles by Dorbcrest Homes because the ones nearest to the road were built on the old Thwaites Delph which was worked as a stone quarry a couple of hundred years ago. If you go on to the field at the back of the allotments behind the terraces of houses, you can see the edge of the old quarry. The row of houses known as Hospital View were built in 1892 by my Great Granddad. The 2 houses at the top end of the row are built on clay, but the rest were built on the filled in quarry.When the war was on, our shelter was always waterlogged and we couldn't use it, but all the rest were well drained. When my grandchildren were small we would go on to the allotment of my wife's father and excavate to see what we could find that had been buried.We found a pair of Victorian shoes and a big stone jar in pieces

Thanks everyone for the info.

My husband g dad was in here1924. Is there any we’re we can find about his time in there.