Wigan Album

I must have missed this one Ozy.
By the way did you get a photo of the ‘ forgotten steps’ on the less walked on side of the Duggy.?

I did get a photo of what I considered to be the only possible former site of your steps Veronica.

In fact I took a number of shots of the area , but for some reason or other I couldn’t get them to upload onto the site and as I have neither
your email address , nor Irene’s , I had no way of getting them to you , so I deleted them unfortunately ,.. Sorry !

Still , it’s only a two minute job to go back down there and take them again .

I even went back down there with a spade to try to unearth the blimmin’ steps themselves , but quickly realised that it’s a job for a mini hydraulic excavator .

Lord Carnarvon wouldn’t have given up. I can see I will have to go myself and get mi pumps sluched up. Ron can give you my email if you do go again Ozy. Thanks anyway.

I wouldn’t have given up either Veronica if like Lord Carnarvon , I’d had a battalion of Egyptian lackeys at my disposal .

Let me know when you’re planning to go down there so that I can come along and point at the area where you need to start digging .
Oh ! And bring a mattock with you , as a spade’s useless I’ve discovered .

Very true that Ozy …I daresay it’s the ‘lackeys’ that have made themselves rich from pilfering the old tombs. It will have to be a nice day when I go there..I will let you know..I haven’t been going to Wigan much apart from Spec Savers and the bank.

As an ex employee of the ORDNANCE SURVEY i am deeply interested in all these photos that are being posted what i would now like to know just who the person is who has all these wonderful photo's i would love for him or her to cantact me as the man in most of them really looks like one of the surveyors i used to work with . i will give you my e-mail address which i dont normally it is ;
alanw47@sky.com

Just put Time Pix in Google Alan. You will find thousands on there.
Cyril knows something about them.

I do hope this isn’t a trap Mr Winstanley .

If the photograph above dates from 1950 , and the chap in the shot is 40 years old let’s say , that would make him 114 years old now .

I doubt if anyone on this site can give you an answer to your query but if you go onto the Timepix site , you may find a link on there that can direct you to someone who could help .
Best of luck .

Thank you very much for your kind info Veronica i will try theat.

Hi Ozy , I dont understand what you mean a trap >With the greatest respect i do understand the age diff ,but at the time i started to work for the O/S i was regarded as the ""KID " of the sections ie all the guys were considerably a lot older than myself thus my reamark that one of the men looked familar . Hope this answers your comment.

This is for Veronica i would like to thank you very much for your kind suggestion i did look up the google page and found it very interesting again thanks.
As for Ozy, I don't understand your comment;
"I hope it isn't a trap" All i can say to that is that when i began working for the O/S i was regarded as the "KID " Of the section as the guys were really a lot older that myself thus my reason for asking has one of those men did look very similar to one of the gang i was working with that's all , i hope this answers you .

I’m sure you will enjoy rooting through all those photos Alan especially as you also worked in that organisation. Many happy memories for you.

Great photograph. Thanks, again! Ozy.
I went up-and-down that cobbled path hundreds of times and that photograph is how I would like to remember it.

The reason for my use of the word ´trap’ Alan was this ;

This batch of photographs were appropriated from the Timepix site ,… as witnessed by the watermark they carry .

My understanding is that these images can be shared freely providing the watermark hasn’t been tampered with , but as I know nothing about copyright law , and as there remains the slight possibility that I may have overlooked something in the small print , there is also the possibility that I may be inviting legal action , although I do feel reasonably confident that I’m doing nothing illegal .

The fact that you say you’re an ex - O/S employee and the fact that you included your contact details suggested to me that you may have been inviting a response via email , which in itself may indirectly have revealed my identity .

So I take your point re: the age difference and I hope you take mine re: self preservation .

I don’t think I could manage a term of porridge at my time of life to be honest …….especially with having to share a cell with Veronica an’ all .… plus … it wouldn’t look too good on my C.V. either would it ?…wouldn’t you agree ?

So , nothing sinister in my post I assure you and apologies if that’s the way that it came across … I hope you understand .

All the best Alan . Oz.

There’ll be more than you and me Ozy. Don’t forget the Jolly Swagman..he’s really going to town with these pic ‘n’ mix. I’m having the top bunk anyway.

Why thank you very much OZY for your kind response i in no way took the comments i any way harmful i really appreciate your views and remarks and sincerly wish you all the best for the future and i agree at our time of life we don't want porridge every morning do we ? ha ha so again thank you OZY and aslo Veronica for your kind comments to i don't write a lot on the site as iv' e had some nasty people in the past ,but on reading some on here you sound very nice people cheers all!