Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

With regards, you can go back and take a look at the pub sign on any age of old photos and you will see it ALWAYS depicts a Bell. NEVER Bluebells as in the flower. Ask yourself why is this, if the pub was named after the flowers?
Yes, you and obviously others have grown up believing it was the flowers. You or anyone else has no evidence of this. Only presuming and hearsay. Downall Greeners must come across as a bit stupid to paint a Blue Bell on EVERY pub sign ever made over the years if it is actually named after the Bluebell flower. As I said history has it that there is a church or once been a church close by all Blue Bell pubs. Denoting a ‘Gunmetal Blue’ Bell that would be in the nearby church. Pubs named ‘The Bell’ I guess would have a bell made of something else other than Gunmetal. If the bell isn’t in the church now, it would have been originally. Could have got damaged and removed over time. Not impossible for a very old bell. As for the flowers, it seemed a logical thought because there was s lot of them around. But illogical to then paint a ‘Blue Bell’ on every pub sign ever painted. Ding Dong.