Wigan Album

Wonder why the house has the Lyons Tea sign on the wall, unless it was a shop then or at one time.

I'm trying to place the spot. Starting from the premise that photographers at that time would shoot with the sun behind them, I'd guess we were looking at the North side of the street - and I think it was taken from opposite the side of the Black Diamond, at the Lower Ince end of the Lane. That row of small terraces, which led down to the back of the pub, has gone (there's a bungalow there now) but the next terrace begins, as here, with two houses, then a step up to a six-house row ending at Sharp Street.

This looks like it could be just a bit further up from what was the Manley pub?

Elizabeth, I thought that at first - but the row where all the people are stood, if it were there, would be where a white-painted row called The Woodlands stands. That was new in 1918, and has a colonnade across the frontage.

I believe you are correct Elizabeth.