Wigan Album

Sorry DK this is the fountain i meant with the peeing boy,the "Bandstand was through the path to the left through the bushes,didn't spot this photo sorry but thanks great photos.

Hindley 1907 Alan Godfrey map clearly marks the bandstand just where you say - taking a left turn here it stands alone in the field. It's a real shame there's no picture but perhaps the bandstand had gone by then. I'd like to have seen it.

I think the Bandstand was removed in the the mid sixties Dk,but you can still see the imprint in the grass where it was.

My grandfather, John Hart, was the gardener at Walmsley Park till he retired in the 60's.

The bandstand was indeed to the left of the photo through a gap in the Rhododendron bushes , I lived in East View just a short distance away & remember a band playing there as a child , I was born in 1948 so it was probably mid fifties .
The schools held their sports days in the park then and lots of people came to watch , it was a very busy place in mid summer in those days .