Wigan Album

Harry Parkes had a studio on Smith's Lane Orrell, (now Gathurst Road,) in the vicinity of the above photograph; he took many photos of UpHolland and district in the late 19th and early 20th century.

I can't get my bearings on this one (I could see where the other one of Orrell post was taken).

It is a difficult one as the area has changed so much but I reckon it is looking down Moor Road, the house on the left is still there though much altered and the buildings just visible on the right would be where McParlands newsagent is now.

Carol - this was taken from near the Stag Hotel, looking across to the corner of Orrell Road and Moor Road.
The two stone cottages are the double fronted stone house which can still be found between the Lock and Key Centre, and what used to be the Post Office.
The road has since been widened quite a bit at this corner.

Too the left of this cottage where the lock and key now is,there was a blacksmiths shop,and where the shops are was
a barn which was in a farmyard,the farm at one time in the 1940 belonged to Ashcrofts.Question could the building on the right be the pub, which i think was called the Red Lion,that was opposite the Stag?

This photo Brought memories back.I always thought I remembered there being a door on the L.H side.My parents lived in the house and farmed the land until the council took for housing.Sorry Carol the building on the right was pulled down some time before we moved into the house in 1940.Also the surrounding wall had been removed.The two sheds that would have been on the left belonged to Johny Makinson a wheelright.Entertainment in those days was watching putting the steel hoops back on to the refurbished wheels. Happy Days

the Makinson's, who had the wheelwrights/ blacksmiths were my relatives. were the wheelwrights and blacksmiths two separate buildings? the census records that i have found seem to suggest they are two separate addresses

the wheelwrights were two wooden sheds just out of sight to the left the blacksmiths was the building on the right. At that time I think on of his jobs was shoeing the horses. Sorry I don`t know the name it`s quite a bit before my time. The building over the roed were the paper shop was is the old pub I think it was called the Red Lion.