Wigan Album

The only Peers family farm i remember was down Primrose Lane, i was related to the Peers family and i remember the farm being occupied and run by Harry Peers around 1950.

top of Primrose lane on the right just before Robin Hill rail line in Standish Sandy Peers comes to mind

Gosh! Who or what would push that wheelbarrow?? And is that really a tall pole holding the roof up? Love it! I wonder if it was near the Limes where my grandfather would have been still living at the time the photo was taken.

Sheryl B...The Limes was near Boars Head, opposite end of Standish

Henry Peers, Primrose Hill Farm, Primrose Lane.

It's Larkhill Farm which was on Rectory Lane. Farmer was Ebenezer Peers, (my grandfather) Alexander from Primrose Farm, and Joseph from Farm was bottom of Grove Lane, woth Bessie's Well Farm remember its name). They were brothers, and the family came from Helsnby. Why I don't know.My father was born and lived here for 30 years. Don't know who Elizabeth Peers is. I remember Roy Huxley as a relative of my father.

My grandparents Ebeneezer & Mary Ellen Peers(no apostrophe between the r and s),lived at Lark Hill Farm from the mid 1890's until approx.1934. There was no Elizabeth in the Family.

I am afraid this photo is not larkhill farm.

I have just read the census records for 1871 and my Great Great Great Grandfather farmed 22 acres at Lark Hill and was named as the farmer. He was called Charles Graham. Has anyone got any info about that time or photos of the farm

The buildings are Bowling Green Farm, off Arbour Lane, Standish. TC Porteus, writing in his 'History of the Parish of Standish' states that the farm, in 1927, was 'now the Isolation Hospital'.

Harry Peers was my fathers uncle, his family had a connection to Bessy Well farm, Moody farm and Primrose Hill farm. Not sure where it was but I recall most of the land being purchased for the Motorway.
In 1881 census the Peers lived at 10 rectory Lane.