Various pictures courtesy of Brian Thurston, thank you. These superb images are large, please be patient while they load, it's worth the wait. For Explorer users, pressing F11 acts as a toggle to get a larger view.
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Looking down the canal towards Wigan from Kirkless Hall Bridge. With the locally known Rabbit Rocks on the left.
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Leeds Liverpool Canal at Haigh in early spring.
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Leeds Liverpool Canal at Haigh in early spring showing 'Shedfield Bridge'. This carried the railway line between the 'Holly Bank Pit' over the canal to the 'Aleaxandra Pit' and 'Lindsay Pit' and then on to the Whelley Loop Line and in turn to the main North South railway line.
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Magnificent view from Haigh Hall, looking across the golf course.
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Haigh Hall fish pond captured in summer.
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Marketgate clock in the Galleries shopping centre.
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Lock keepers cottage. Top Lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
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Top Lock, New Springs. The "Wigan Flight" of 23 locks lowers the canal down to Wigan by 214 feet and 7 inches.
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Kirkless Hall public house, Top Lock. Licensee Mr George Robert Jolley.
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Colliers Arms public house, New Springs.
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Haigh windmill was erected in about 1845 and was used as a pump to deliver water from two ponds to the reservoir at Haigh Brewery, it has recently been renovated by the local community.
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Main gates to Haigh Hall, Wigan Lane.
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