Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Album Contents
Wigan Album
Wanted - Your Old Photographs
Old photographs wanted to build up an online collection. Anything to do with Wigan, including walking days, street parties, school class photographs, streets, etc.
Please help, everyone has a photo album - it would be good to build up a busy, online archive of old photos.
Wrightington Hall.
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The Bungalow.
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Flats at Worsley Mesnes, c1988.
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Taken from the 15th floor of Masefield House, 1985.
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Gone, and good riddance.
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It was a strange sight to see brand new houses, next to the concrete eyesore...
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Removing some the last black panels from the building.
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You can see the machine punching through the floor, and debris falling in the room below.
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Three floors left.
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Water was continually sprayed on the site to keep the dust down.
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Five floors to go.
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Seven floors remaining.
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Nine floors remaining.
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Telephoto lens shot of Debris falling from building.
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Telephoto lens shot of Panel being knocked off building.
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Worsley Mesnes was given the nickname of "Beirut" at the time, because it looked like it had been bombed.
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The excuse the council gave for demolishing the flats was that asbestos...
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Telephoto lens shot of one of the machines at work on one of the top floors.
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Top Floor, almost gone.
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Telephoto lens shot of top floor of block.
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Roof removed.
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Before demolition began, the building was gutted of all fittings, windows etc.
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Freddy eventually moved out after the demolition workers drove a crane...
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Demolition of Masefield House was delayed a couple of months, because of a tenant called Freddy...
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Masefield House pictured here, was the last of the high rise blocks to be demolished.
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Masefield House, with Thackeray House in the background, 1990.
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The maisonettes on Masefield drive, awaiting demolition.
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Another view of Thackeray place, during demolition.
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The maisonettes In Thackeray place being demolished the old fashioned way
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