Wigan Album

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Ron. Previously known as Bridge Hey Mill (Chapel Lane).
Also noticed: E and H Monks - Milliners and Drapers (Manchester Road).

This is not E & H but EH Elisha Hodgkinson MonksThe same family that produced the Doctor of that name in Greenhough Street

EH Monks had a store in Scholes near the Picture House Cinema, my Grandfather bought all his provender and food for his chickens and hens, he lived in the two houses known as "Moorland Villas" near "The Fiver"

Ron - to answer your question. The L&L is in the foreground, with Chapel Lane to the left - crossing the canal on Henshurst Bridge, by the Lock. So this is on the site of the approach to the Investment Centre. There’s a bit of artistic licence re the canal scene - the horse towing a narrow boat is unlikely at this point - the towpath is on the opposite (ie Trencherfield Mill) side of the canal. Boats would have been unhitched from their horses and floated across the cut to be unloaded. It’s also more likely that grain would have arrived on barges from Liverpool docks, than narrow boats from Cheshire - especially as the boat is pointing towards the route to Cheshire.

Donald, do you have any proof that the E H Monks of the corn mill and the Elisha Hodkinson Monks the doctor of Greenough street are related and how? I have been trying to find the connection.