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Brock Mill

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Scanned from an old postcard.
Scanned from an old postcard.
Photo: Ron Hunt
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Item #: 977
View Brock Mill. Scanned from an old postcard.

Comment by: Christine Barbour-Moore on 17th December 2010 at 13:09

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 I attended the old school, which has been replaced by a new school.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.

Comment by: John Barbour on 9th November 2012 at 14:13

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 ?

Comment by: Allan Ashurst on 28th July 2015 at 08:46

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!

Comment by: Allan Ashurst on 28th July 2015 at 08:47

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!

Comment by: John Barbour on 29th July 2018 at 10:06

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.

Comment by: John Randall Barbour on 4th May 2022 at 21:39

Still waiting for a reply now 83 years later....

Comment by: RON HUNT on 5th May 2022 at 14:05

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.

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