Wigan Album

such a difference from now.Would that be the contagious diseases hospital under the bridge.

Sorry i meant the infectious diseases hospital not contagious.

I've stumbled over this hospital on a map - was it still there in 1950s? Walmsley park in its stateliness and grandeur.

the trees you can see on the left were all planted for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth some time in the 1950s, the sanatorium as we called it was just through the bridge on the right hand side, although I never remember it as a building, just an overgrown site with a lot of rhododendron bushes, further to the right was Mellings farm and the flash as we called it and behind that the rubber dump, but remember I was born in 1939 , but I have very vivid memories of that area as that is where I was born and raised.

That car heading towards wigan is a mini, first pruduced in 1959, so that can give some rough idea of the date

looking at the buildings i think they were Houses.
the Sanatorium was just under the bridge to the right out of shot.
if you can get close enough because of the overgrown shrubbery, you can still see the foundations of the buildings

those trees on the left was planted by children from rose bridge high i know that because my sister edna planted one

Very interesting to read about the hospital/sanitorium,as my great grandfather,Albert Fowler drove the 'fever van',for Ince council.My aunt says the family always called it the 'fever hospital'.Thats the park that I remember with the hedges and the gateway.

that picture has changed an awful lot! i dont know if the trees on the left are still there but theres a bus stop there now with iron fencing behind!

hi dsz yes the trees are still there