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Aspull

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Wrecked
Wrecked
Photo: DTease
Views: 3,561
Item #: 31737
June 2001
Abandoned, burned out, rusting away, myself and this old car over the Wutchi have a lot in common.
It may be too late for the car but I think I could scrub up well with a make-over.

Just as a matter of interest, would that Power Station on the horizon be Fiddler’s Ferry?

Comment by: Mr X on 2nd January 2020 at 12:29

I think the shape of this burned out car is a Rover 213 or 216, like the metallic blue one belonging to Richard and Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances.

Comment by: Helen of Troy on 2nd January 2020 at 13:05

It had to be one of yours DTease !
Happy New Year to you !

Comment by: Philip G. on 2nd January 2020 at 13:26

I think this burned out car, half-hidden in the mid-distance by Aspull grass, suggests DTease's wary approach - no chance of waiting savages. So, his grasp of 'a thought-provoking photo', I feel.

Comment by: Joe Thomas on 2nd January 2020 at 14:32

It looks very much like Fiddlers Ferry power station DTease

Comment by: Cyril on 2nd January 2020 at 14:40

It is Fiddlers Ferry power station, it was announced that it is to close this year - 2020, on clear frosty mornings the mass of steam rising from those distant cooling towers resembled smoke from a large fire.

Comment by: DTease on 2nd January 2020 at 16:04

And a happy new year to you and yours Helen. “Lang may your lum reek”
And the same to all on wiganworld.
Philip, the natives must not have been restless that year or I wouldn’t have risked it!
Cyril, I remember seeing the scene you describe one day when I was over there. I tried to grab a photo with a telephoto lens but it did not come out well. Would probably have needed a tripod.

Comment by: fw on 2nd January 2020 at 17:06

Just above the grasses
a lovely wave of heat ,
rusted wasted coffin
rests its lazy feet,
no longer runs on highways , roads or
country lanes
but gazes into distance,
and yawns away its pain ....
Finally going nowhere ,
it plays the God’s life game ,
Sleep where rust will find you
One day I plan the same ..

Comment by: DTease on 2nd January 2020 at 19:39

I like that poem fw. A noble end indeed.

Comment by: Wigginlad on 2nd January 2020 at 20:09

It is Fiddlers Ferry Dtease, I use to deliver this site regularly throughout the 1970s. One other thing I know about this power station is, sadly a young man I knew tragically lost his life during the building of it in 1969, he was a Wigan lad.

Comment by: Ken R on 2nd January 2020 at 22:01

Fiddlers Ferry? Yes indeed. I can hear the sound from here.

Comment by: Philip G. on 2nd January 2020 at 23:32

Ken, Had you have stood beneath its towers one particular afternoon during the early nineties you'd have also heard a very different sound; the sound of continued mock from an un-civilised small section of the home supporters - I don't know how our visiting young footballers got through it, but they did.

Comment by: Alan on 3rd January 2020 at 09:13

Off course its fiddlers ferry.

Comment by: Veronica on 3rd January 2020 at 09:59

The only thing I can see that's 'off course' is the rusty remains ...;0))

Comment by: DTease on 3rd January 2020 at 11:14

Man the Lifeboat! Fiddlers Ferry as gone "off course" and run aground!
Wimmin and children first, every man for himself!

Comment by: Veronica on 3rd January 2020 at 12:37

What's that I hear - the band playing 'Abide with me'....?

Comment by: Ken R on 4th January 2020 at 17:53

Veronica, the Titanic is way out of earshot RIP.

Comment by: Veronica on 5th January 2020 at 08:00

Must have been the Fiddlers fiddling then Ken, there was definitely music playing, they went down valiantly.....being 'off course' of course! Only 'wimmin 'un childer' left to tell the tall tale!

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