Wigan Album

Is the tavern in millgate? I thought Chapel Lane only started at the building behind the lamp post, when I worked there in the 50's it was Wigan Print

Douglas Tavern was on the corner of Douglas Street and the top of Chapel Lane. They met at the bottom of the hill on Millgate where it sweeps round towards Scholes Bridge. It would now be sat on Riverway across grom the bottom of Millgate. My mother lived there as a young girl long after it had ceased to be a pub.

This is the junction of Chapel Lane and Millgate.
The three story building with the posters on the side is Wigan Printing Co. on the corner of Douglas Street demolished in the early 1970's. The top floor window on the right is where I watched the progress of the construction of the New International Pool from 1963 onwards.
The building on the opposite corner is The Douglas Tavern which became a private dwelling and was demolished in the 1960's.
Dave Pagett states that his mother lived there at one time, I recall a girl, I think her name was Catherine Hayes who lived there in the late 1950's or early 1960's and wonder if she is any relation?
The long low building directly opposite might have been The Waggon & Horses or it could have been a little further down but that must have been demolished a long time ago as the Common Lodging House was roughly on that site opposite the Horseshoe Pub.
You have to admit that the Cobbled Roads where pretty good in those days, no sign of Pot Holes!