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When I frequented the pub 50 odd years ago though it was The Prince of Wales it was always known as the Jawbone, I did ask at one time as to how it became to be nicknamed the Jawbone but no one knew, also it was a Tetley pub then.

yes played darts in there .

Brian,
From memory, this was one of Jack Turner's watering holes, the other one was Jem Lowe's (Dog and Partridge). Is Jack still with us ?

maybe this explains it, I dont know https://www.rct.uk/collection/84641/sharks-jaw-bone

Quite interesting that wigger. The Princes George and Eddy going naval training, a three year lads 'jolly' more like.

tim to be honest jack frequented all of the pubs in that area including the queens on the corner of the saddle junction .i dont know tim if he,s still with us ? .

Why did it have the nickname " The Jawbone " anyone know please ?

I always knew him as John Turner and I also knew his two brothers Bill and Joe. The last time I saw and spoke to John was around the early 1990s and he said Bill had died some years previously, I haven't seen Joe around for a while now so he too must have died. Most Friday or Saturday nights in the 1970s John could be seen playing dominoes in Jem Lowes and would sometimes call in at the Queen's Head, Joe would often be in and Bill too at weekends or some week nights when the coach dropped off going back to Webster's garage.

Sound to me, the nick name "Jawbone" is because many fights broke out fuelled by ale.
Just an educated guess.

To my knowledge there had never been any trouble with fights Garry.
It did become a Gay meeting pub in the late 1970s, but even then there was never any trouble, well as far as I know anyway as I'd moved to new pastures by that time.

Though I did hear that one night a few empty sherry bottles were thrown at the landlord when he wouldn't put any more coal on the fire. %¬)

I was told years ago that when they were building the pub a human jawbone was found in the footings?

Dave, just been reading of three explanations, one was as you've said about the jawbone found when digging the footings, and the other that on the night the pub opened a fight broke out and a customer ended up with a broken jawbone, also a thread on here about Jawbone and a tale about a row on the bowling green at rear of pub. Though I never heard that it once had a bowling green, as far as I know that has always been higher up on corner of Mitchell St. https://wiganworld.co.uk/communicate/mb_message.php?opt=f2&msd=668322&page=37&subject=Jawbone%20%20Newtown

There was this WEP report in 2019 of a disturbance at the pub which left a man with serious injuries. https://www.wigantoday.net/news/crime/one-man-seriously-injured-and-another-arrested-after-disturbance-wigan-pub-975358

Cyril I also heard of the fight scenario?

My Dad Brian Green was on the darts and dominos team at the Jawbone when Jack Percival was the landlord and he said many years ago there was the jawbone of a whale hung outside over the door, how true this was though I don’t know.