Wigan Album
Brock Mill
7 CommentsPhoto: Ron Hunt
Item #: 977
This is the back of Woodfield School, in Brock Mill Lane Wigan. I attended the old school, which has been replaced by a new school. I lived at Sicklefield House further round from Woodfield. Does anybody have pictures of Sicklefield House. It was built in 1818 by Molly Penson.
Yep I lived there also.....anybody remember the bomb in WW2 which fell down Brockmill Lane.
Where does the name Brock come from....is from a brook or a badger ?
I remember going to see the bomb crater when I was about 9 years old. We used to walk down Brockmill lane across the bridge and back along Leyland Mill lane to Marylebone Park to 60 Holme Terrace where I was born. Lancashire Evening Post used to be in the mill. Then we could also drive that route. Now the area around the mill is built on and the route blocked off. How sad!
I remember going to see the bomb crater when I was about 9 years old. We used to walk down Brockmill lane across the bridge and back along Leyland Mill lane to Marylebone Park to 60 Holme Terrace where I was born. Lancashire Evening Post used to be in the mill. Then we could also drive that route. Now the area around the mill is built on and the route blocked off. How sad!
Do you know that I can't find a public record of that particular bomb which is a pity as it happened when I lived at Sicklefield House up the drive from the crater ! would be then about two or three and vaguely remember it.
Still waiting for a reply now 83 years later....
Just checked the records of bombs dropped on Wigan and district in WW2 and there is no record of a bomb being dropped in that vicinity.