Wigan Album
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 11235
What a cracking photos I wonder if the men where real boatmen are models.
This pub is now called The Blue Elephant and is a curry house. It is a nice stretch of the canal I have to say.
They won't be working boatmen, as the last coal traffic ceased in August 1972, and that was Bickershaw to Westwood - they may indeed be the students mentioned in the thread on the converted lifeboat at Wigan Pier.
On second looks one of them looks like a Shevier so maybe they photographer as just got them to come out of the pub to pose.
Caddy it not a Blue Elephant that in Gathurst its a baby one
By Mick Byrne
[Caddy it not a Blue Elephant that in Gathurst its a baby one]
Yep, you is right... but the writing is in BLUE! That is my excuse and I am sticking to it. ;-)
It is nice to note that they have left the old pub sign up on the towpath I always liked that sign, it just seems to fit the area.
they aren't real boatmen,they used to drink in the Navi - haven't seen this picture in years but I knew the guy on the left, I think they had an original picture in the games room in the pub when Bill ran it.