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Thank you Tommy. I have posted photos etc showing Canal Street elsewhere on Wigan World here:

Canal Street

If you look at the photo of the canal bridge arch showing the wooden stump in front of the red car, I have used the old side by side mapping archives to deduce that this stump is more than likely a remnant of the footbridge that crossed the canal leading to an old inn called The Railway Inn which is shown on your map link.

Interestingly originally there were only five houses on Canal Street, numbers 2 -10 as can be seen at the older side by side map here.

Map link

My wife and her family lived at number 12 which was added to the terrace row sometime between 1891 and 1901 If you look at the photo in my own postings, you can clearly see the different coloured bricks of their house and that it is double fronted.