Wigan Album

We used to call this Slaggy and not Kirkless.

Hemfield Road in the background. Had a friend who lived there, Jean Pennington. Went to Ashton G.S. Wonder where she is now. Anybody know?

Can anyone pin-point the location of the houses shown?.

Sorry. I see that Colin has named the location of the houses, on another similar photograph.

oohh this brings back happy memories,our play ground as a child.....superb

Alan H could Jean Pennington's parents have been Corny and Alice by any chance?

Neil Cain, I never got to know Jean's parents names but I think her dad was a painter and decorator. Do you have a brother, Alan? When I was at Ince central I'm sure there was an Alan Cain in my class. I left in 1947 and went to H.A.G.S.

i lived up there and i remember a family called pennington on hemfield rd painter and decorators,same as my dad jim beckett,they had a son called arthur, my friend and me used to laugh at his name as he was only young with an old mans name arthur pennington ,but strange things happen in life i married my husband alan pennington and we got our second grandson on christmas eve 2012 and guess what they called him yes ARTHUR we love him to bits, so very sorry to other arthur pennington for laughing but we were only kids that played on that very same slaggy, i remember it a lot bigger than that though , ive seen it from belle green lane on a photo on here and it looks like a half mountain .

Josie, I am guessing the Arthur you knew was the son of Corny and Alice as Corny was in turn the son of Arthur who had the decorating business with his lads. My dad used to tell me how they set a woman's curtains on fire once.Corny's full name was Cornelius McLeod Pennington and he got McLeod through being somehow related to the Percy family who ran the ironworks.

Corny was the caretaker of Belle Green school, the new one at the top of the lane. Arthur, lived at one time in the end house opposite the old Belle Green school, next to the railway bridge.