Wigan Album

Thinking about it the title should really have been View across Douglas Valley.

One day this rumour may come true,on that day you won't see any greenery.

A good picture, and in the foreground boys and girls - a nice view of the wonderful Whelley line. The now demolished underbridge leading to the Rugby club is visible on the far left middle. BR rebuilt this and most of the underbridges on the Whelley line in readiness for it to be used as a diversionary route during the early seventies so that electrification of the WCML through the congested two-track Wigan to Standish Jct. section could be undertaken more easily. Really nice to see the Whelley as she once was ie, in use, carrying traffic and not buried under trees. Another "Henry Halls" by the intelligentsia!

owd on Rob! 1965? i was only two then and Jemmy Glover still had hair!

The photographer was standing a few yards from where a German bomb fell in about 1942.A little reported event at the time and since..I was about 2-3 years old at the time in the big house up the drive behind the photographer.No one hurt,though damage was done to the old house...

Bet you did not know that further up Brock Mill lane I discovered the site of a gun emplacement dating to the English Civil War. By use of a metal detector on high ground I found very close together...a canon ball,a silver sixpence of Elizabeth 1st dated 1568,a buckle of simolar age. So one assumes an officer with men and canon keeping an eye on Leyland Mill Lane across the Douglas valley at the time of the Battle of Wigan Lane. Any comments ?