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Hi Frank,this is'nt Lightfoot Farm were the Leaches lived,this is Burrows Farm with Low Hall Cottages behind,this old Farmhouse is still there and lived in but the houses have gone now.

You are right Maurice, a friend of mine lived in the left one of the 2 together, and in the 70s we put a septic tank in for him to help with the plumbing, his name was Joe Jackson and he was the carpenter at Thompsons yard down Christopher street

Frank, did you work for the Wigan Observer Newspaper, your name rings a bell?

Thanks Maurice for enlightening me about the farm. It was my dad who must have got confused. Can you tell me where Lightfoot Farm was in that case.
In reply to John, I was a photographer at the Post and Chronicle originally then we amalgamated with the Wigan Observer in the 1980s. I worked on the Wigan papers for 42 years taking early retirement last year.

Hi Frank,if you look at my Ince Farm photo's,thats lightfoot Farm,and if you go to page 2,and look at Amberswood 2 you can see were both farms are,the old railway line,now a cyclepath separates them,Frank could it have been your Dad I sold a Canon T90 flashgun to around 20 years ago,he told me that he had been the sports photographer for the Wigan Observer.

No Maurice it couldn't have been my dad you sold the flashgun to. He wasn't a photographer, he was a maintenance joiner at Timberlakes garage on Library Street, Wigan, and then at their premises on Wallgate where the present day Go Outdoors store is located.

I was born in Lightfoots farm in 1946. My grandfparents(James and Elizabeth Leach) owned the farm. Subsequently, my uncle James Leach and wife Kathleen took over and it was eventually inherited by their son Brian.
James seniors father and mother ( Richard and Bridget Leach) used to occupy Low Hall farm Hindley. The family used to walk from one farm to the other across the fields. I left Lightfoots farm when I was only 10 months old to move to Norfolk but used to visit the farm annually until my grandparents moved to Caunce Road, ( now demolished) in Wigan.
Just been sorting out the family history.