Wigan Album

Actually... it is a pity they did not leave them alone. Oh I know they may have become unsafe, but they could have dismantled them carefully and then used the original brick and stone to reconstruct them. But, I am talking about 'new thinking' here I suppose.

When a low loader type of motor trailer, the sort that carry excavators and heavy machines, came to a bridge like this, after the front wheels passed over the hump, the bottom of the trailer grounded on the hump and very often the vehicle was stuck there as well as damaging the road surface. So "PROGRESS" neaded this type of bridge altering. I was held up in my truck for a couple of hours in the 1960s at Burscough Bridge because of this problem. E.T.

is this looking towards the old bone works

That's right, Bob. On the opposite side of the cut from where the picture was taken used to be the Railway pub, and the Lino works.

thanx mick, i remember fishing there as a youngster, the smell from the boneworks was horendous lol

Had a few full keepnets fishing the 'bonehole' myself, Bob.
Between getting covered in powdered bone, and the pong from there and the 'lino', it's funny we survived!

If anyone has any information on the Bone Ole or Crown Chemical Works, Grove Works or any other name it had I would be most interested, particularly in an y old photographs of the works or plans of the sites etc.....

Remember the double deck buses backing onto the bridge , remember waiting for the last bus upto dangerous corner awaiting outside Jimmy frosts electrical shop.