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Interesting picture. You can make out the outlines of another doorway to the right of the bottom window (itself on the right) and it looks like the property was originally two, or three houses.

Cheers John, you don't have a photo of the other pub the "Travellers Rest"? Trying, without a lot of success<g> to get a comprehensive collection of the old, long gone, Wigan Pubs.

Lived in Pemberton for over 40 years and never heard of Thwaites Delph or the Pub. When was it pulled down.

This pub reverted to back to being a house later on. Ben Smart and his wife lived there and later on Bill Demings and his wife lived there, followed for short time by Trevor Jones and his family. This was after Trevor bought the garage from Bill Demings daughter. Later on it was used for storage for the garage. Bill Demings was a coal dealer from Newtown and he had the garage built just after the end of the war. If you look on "places" for Pemberton, there are pix of the old stone houses being demolished, I lived in that area all my life. Thwaites Delph was filled in when the factory estate at Triangle valve was being constructed. If anyone wants any more info on this area Send me an email

No, Ron, I don't have a picture of the Travellers Rest, wish I did though! One other piece of information, in the book 'Wigan Town and Country Rambles', published in 1914 is a list of Oldfield Brewery Houses and Tenants. The inn is on this list and the tenant named as Peter Lowe. Assuming this list was accurate at the time of publication and added to the fact that the White Lion does not appear on the 1927 map for the area then I assume that it closed somewhere between these dates. If anyone has further information I would be interested to hear it.

I'm assuming Fred that the Inn was the end building of the row of miners cottages, nearest to the garage? I remember the row but not with any detail.

This was that great discussion we had on fb 2 days ago when it was realised that it was Billinge road and not 'Billinge' - hence we claimed a pub back from 'St. Helens pubs' group. Fascinating to read the additional information of what happened to the pub building :).

Hi Fred
Another piece of the Family History jigsaw sorted !
Many thanks x

My grandad was born there is 1902. Albert Lowe