Wigan Album

Nice moody picture Allan. Weighty reflections in the foreground too, … or should that be foreshore.

Were is Arley Hall

What story behind you?
That lingers the mist,
perhaps in a diary?
Or a story of twist?
Long now forgotten,
left in a book,
a picture of someone,
that somebody took.
Was she a Madam?
Or a lady of breed?
One who never saw work?
Who never had need?
Why won't tell us
the story that's here?
The mist is the silence,
I seek the unclear.

I feel this is such a good photo it should have been on PAD.
Well done Allan.

It could be a scene frm a film with Sherlock Holmes investigating his latest mystery, or an Agatha Christie for that matter. Makes you wonder if the water level has risen with all the rain lately, and being so close to the water how the Hall has survived as it has all this time....

My friend took me there once and we went inside. It was beautiful. There is a grave in the grounds where a donkey is buried. He used to take little children to school on his back.

My thought as well Veronica, in fact, my thought of Granada's The Musgrave Ritual, and of Allan's nearside gable having a door, with Brett and chums rowing towards it in a small boat.
"West eight by eight", etc.

I am watching so many b/w films lately, I think I'm going colour blind! Watched "The October Man" last night from the fifties on YTube Philip - it's well worth watching...

I've certainly heard of the October Man, Veronica. And I've just been informed by IMDB that Paddington Station had been used as one of its filming locations - 'there's something about a railway station', isn't there. And Paddington, eh? … there must have been ten of us as we passed through its gates in 79 enroute to our digs, and latterly to Wembley Stadium for the Challenge Cup Final. And how such a small place our world can sometimes seem to be: I'd been sat behind a Soho window having a pint when my sup was interrupted by a girl knocking on the window, smiling and waving my way from the outside - the girl sometimes drank in the same pub as myself, and worked in a quality Market Street shop! But others seen and heard (from afar), during our short stay there … Oh! Lordy, Lordy.

The moat at Arley Hall, home of Wigan Golf Club, used to contain black swans, where are they now ??

Jono the swan on the left of the picture is a black swan. Unless it's a white one still in its pit muck after a shift.

Yes Tony, but where are they now ?

Roy/ Jonno , I saw the black swans the other day on the 'four pits' clay pigeon shooting range down Bradley.

Thanks for that Poet.

All.....The 2 Black Swans are there at Arley on the moat, see them every day I play golf, sadly they failed to produce young last year , but here's hoping that this year they will be successful.

Thank you Allan, they definitely vanished at one point, haven't been up there for a while, glad they're back.