Wigan Album

The lines will be the mineral railway from the Aspull Pumping Pit.

Cheers Geoff. I live in one of the houses built on the Moor just to the left of the photo. The road is very busy now.

There is a footpath there now which follows the line of the old railway, it crossed Ratcliffe Road and ran through a cutting pass the Wall Hey Chimney on Haigh road and on to Toddington and Meadow Pit.

i remember coming up crawford avenue and crossing a dirt rook i think ther was an old mine shaft on there my grandmother lived on stanley rd there was some ston cottages further up than the moorgate she also had a shop there

a girl called betty haveln used to live in the seconed house

Hi Linda,
Your name keeps appearing everywhere I look, I am racking my brains (not many left)to try and place you, who was in your family, ma,pa,sis,bros?
Ken Roocroft Ednas Bro.

hi ken i was born on crawford avenue i had sisters elsie kathleen jenny who are now diseased also edward there is only me sally barbara alan left i went to shcool with your Edna what where the houses called you lived in round by the lodge i used to go to your house

I used to live Stanley Rd until I was aged 11yrs, we then moved to Holly Road, newly built houses. We used to play in George Marsdens fields and used go potato picking. What an evocative photo, lovely to see. thank you