Wigan Album

What a great photo of your Mum Barrie..I would have it framed if I were you..to save it from the rages of time.

I agree with Maureen, Barrie, it is a great photo, with the only changes in scenery around there from then are the trees and also the fog, with foggy days and polluted air being the norm in Wigan for some time of course.
The iconic canal bridge that's been seen on TV too, it's been seen in Foyle's War and Brassic, but it has I'm sure, also been on another programme too.

Thank you Cyril, I have at least a dozen precious photos that have been practically ruined through mishandling,of course it's my own fault..you just think they'll be okay but I really wish I had had them framed instead of just putting them back in a box..I'll never get them back now.

A really evocative photo, you could describe it as a time capsule. What a wonderful treasure to have Barrie.

This may have been taken from the boathouse bridge. I seem to remember a stone arch bridge, but must be mistaken because photo 3023 shows this iron bridge with the Haigh Hall tractor on it. Good Photo, the trees have really thickened since then.

Peter you can see part of the wall of the mini humpback boathouse bridge on the bottom right of the photo.

Peter, was it the Wigan Archaeological Society who did a dig at the side of this bridge to search for remains, it's in records that steps from there led down to a jetty used for boats and by boaters to reach the boathouse, I remember reading I'm sure, they were to do a dig, you can see the remains on this photo from around 1900, posted by aitch 2012, the steps are gone and the jetty overgrown with weed. https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=20375&gallery=Haigh&page=2

Yes Maureen, and ensure to get the albums with special viewing leaves that protect the photographs, we in the past had just got ordinary ones from Boots etc., and at the time assumed they were okay, but over time the cellophane like viewing leaves do stick to the photos and ruining them, and its said they contain chemicals that could also spoil the photos.

Thanks for the positive comments that you have posted. Looking at photo#5388 I noted that it had 1982 in the bottom corner. I guess the stone footbridge is where father stood to take his shot of the canal/ and arched bridge. Mother would be aged around 23/24 years old and from other photos I have found from that era she was slim and attractive.
Cyril, I found sheets of tissue paper work well in photo albums and they don't stick to the page.

I think this was a stone arch bridge originally and then replaced by this iron one. Photos on PLACES, HAIGH show the bridge and one by RON shows the bridge with boathouse as well.
Cyril, I know nothing about a dig by the archeological society but it would be interesting to know why and when. the old bridge was replaced

Here's a photo by Phil Whitehead of the rowing pond bridge showing it when the pond was cleared of weed and the bridge repaired. David (Rev. Long) mentions that the area around here is bad for subsidence, both in the past and now hence difference in height between water and bridge arch. https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photoaday.php?photo=2012-04-05

It may have been when the bridge and tow path, and the area around pond was being dug over and repaired that I remembered about and not an archaeological dig.

Old photo of bridge over canal which is different from the bridge that is there now. https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=1652&gallery=Plantations+and+Plantation+Gates&page=1001

Having said that Maureen the German language is supposedly quite guttural just like the Lanky dialect!

Ooops! Wrong post this should be on the newspaper cutting.

Veronica,if I'd said Ich Dien I could have understood it..lol

Found another photograph on the Wigan archives website-https://archives.wigan.gov.uk/archive/photograph-collections/haigh/153954-pc2010186? of this bridge around 1930ish. They have labelled it Hall Lane Bridge Haigh. The view is from the other side of the bridge.