Wigan Album

Ron. The lodge at Lower Ince cemetery was a similar structured building. I supposed they all followed the same architectural design.

Ah but the one in lower Ince as a clock

Ince Cemetery Lodge, along with the gates and posts, and the two mouldering chapels in the cemetery are Grade II listed - having been designed by the famous architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1855/6 - probably as his first major piece of public architecture. His grandest building, in which features of the chapels at Ince are visible, is the Natural History Museum in London.
Hindley Cemetery Lodge, despite the obvious similarity of it and the gateposts to those at Ince, is unlisted. It was built over 20 years later.
From the 1925/6 Ince Directory, it looks as if there was a lodge at the gates of Wigan Cemetery - and maybe even a house for the gardener. Can you find a pic of that, Ron?

In the 1950's a chap called Mr Moorcroft lived in the house along with his family.

Yes I remember Tom Moorcroft living at the cemetery house
their is one thing you can say his neighbours were very quiet indeed D.C.

My great uncle Isaiah Orrell was once the Ince cemetery lodge registrar / superintendent, he died in the lodge 1907.

For a more up to date picture(for comparison) visit:-http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1061292

We moved into the lodge in 1971 after the previous occupier Jim Corbett and wife (he was the Chief Financial Officer at Ince Council) moved out and we lived there with our 3 children till 1978