Wigan Album

Remember going to Tawd Bridge market near here many times in the late 60s and early 70s.

I remember Tawd Bridge from about 1948, we would walk there from Holland Moor & if I'm right there was an 'Old Bridge ' just on the Skem side of Digmoor, a pic of the place is still in my head if not in reality any more.

Nice photos Jim, many of us old Skemmers live in the Wigan area so do keep posting them.

Helen, yes Tawd Bridge was just down the road from here, it was the main road from Wigan to Ormskirk and beyond. I used to get the bus from UpHolland to work in Ormskirk in 1976-77 and the road was diverted around that time and Tawd Bridge fell into disuse.

Helen, yes Tawd Bridge was just down the road from here, it was the main road from Wigan to Ormskirk and beyond. I used to get the bus from UpHolland to work in Ormskirk in 1976-77 and the road was diverted around that time and Tawd Bridge fell into disuse.

It`s interesting to see the various descriptions of Digmoor as an area. Although the general area of Digmoor stretches eastwards from the River Tawd to just beyond Delph House and to the south beyond Potter Lane where Digmoor Hall Farm was situated to us locals it was far from that. Anyone living around Wigan Road from the River Tawd up to the Co-op and the bottom of Spencers Lane came from "Tawd Bridge". From the Co-op to Daniels Lane were said to come from "Grimshaw Lane" and any one further up came from "up the Delph". "Digmoor" itself was centred around the junction of Spencers Lane and Daniels Lane. Anyone further up Daniels Lane were referred to as living "up the dans". People living in the Digmoor Road, Broad Lane,Potter Lane area came from "Back Digmoor"
No doubt there are slightly different versions of where one area ends and another begins to the original locals but it is unlikely that any would consider anyone passing through Tawd Bridge on Wigan Road had been to Digmoor.