Wigan Album

Could this be number 364?

No,it,s definately 162,Kath says it is!!!

You could be right about the number. I may have remembered it incorrectly. Thanks.

Trying to get my bearings - where is this near? Springfield Road junction or down near Beech Hill Lane?

On the site where Green's Carpets is next to Douglas Printers

I believe this house stood where the Scot Lane bridge over the canal was built in the late 60s.

Thank you for sharing this photo Kath.

The photo has brought back memories of driving along the road there, and dodging the very colourful chickens that had escaped from the pens and were always wandering in the road.

There was a Mr Barnes who had a pen down there at one time

The hens on Woodhouse Lane were owned by Harmers. They were always out on the road. I used to help Evan House Farm milkwoman "Lizzie" to deliver their milk in the 40's (when I was very Lickle) ;o)

The man in the shot is Albert Harmer, a coal miner, the lady on the left is Joan Nash and the other is her mother Jane Williams.

The children left to right are unknown, Margaret Whittle, Kathleen Nash and Joan Whittle

Something tells me that the house in question was one of the stepped Houses, which were demolished during or just after the war. The terrace of houses running from Horton St, towards Wigan, ended at a gap between the terrace which ran from the Woodhouses pub. That's where the stepped houses were.
Harmers pen was on the same side as Ball St, a triangle of land bordering the cut & road. Harmers house was the end of that terrace, directly facing the pen. A collection of brightly marked Bantams were always on the road there

Such nostalgia looking back. We lived in 316 Woodhouse Lane and Norman Harmon lived next door with the chickens across the road. Going to visit in July so lovely to see the pictures

Mom (Dorothy Harmer) loved hearing about old street. She lived at 144 Woodhouse Lane, believe her Dad grew up in 138 Woodhouse. She moved to Canada in 1947.