Wigan Album
Mesnes Park
7 Comments
Photo: Dennis Seddon
Item #: 22767
May 1996.
Hope they are in storage so that they can be rehung after the current restoration of the Lodge.
They are beautiful and I hope those evil metal thieves leave them alone.
they had previously been demolished in a fatal car crash in about 1956 ,two fatalities a WGS pupil who was a year below me I think his name was Halliwell and the other was aworker from Walker Bros
Only the right gate was demolished,the schoolboy was Philip higham who is buried in gidlow cemetery.
Only the right stone pillar was demolished,the schoolboy was Philip higham,
Car driven by a drunk who had been drinking in Park hotel, the car was an american model,
orellite and Jerry B: I was on the bottom bowling green when I heard a very loud bang. Went and saw the carnage - it was awful.