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7 CommentsPhoto: Gerry
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My Mam bought all of our bedroom furniture from there,That must have been in the 50's,she had it until she passed away in 97,and it still looked good,I loved polishing it as a child,wardrobes,tallboys,dressing tables...I'm really reminiscing now.
What was the Georgian building next to it that has been saved as a listed building?
it was originally a private home but became part of Penningtons.
there is a cherubs face over the door of the georgean building, it was put there by the parents of a little girl who once lived there, she drowned at the back in the dougie before they changed its course.
I still have a Pennington's small wardrobe in the garage as a cupboard. It was bought by Vera in the late 60's before we were married. It is still useful and better than MFI which would not have stood this long.
When was it built?
I've written quite a bit about the Georgian building now referred to as "Pennington's" (somewhere on Wigan World); In the mid-late 1700's it was the home of Albert Whitehouse who painted quite a number of scenes of Wigan, especially Market Place and The Royal Hotel & Eagle and Child . . . I hadn't heard the story of the cherub's face before; geographically it would be possible with the original course of the Douglas looping close to the rear of the property at the bottom of Stairgate.