History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

Hello Tom,
The ventilation shaft you mention was indeed on Ashfield Park Drive, just behind Birch Avenue which runs parallel with it, but lower. If you travel down Grove Lane and turn right into Ashfield Park Drive, as you travel up the hill you will see a patch of land in front of you with a small woods to the rear of it. If you were to take the footpath that runs to the left, the concrete capping to the old shaft will be just on your right in the woods. The bungalows on Birch Ave run below you to your left. I remember we used to climb up the sides of the shaft to peer down it, daft really . I seem to remember it was demolished and capped early 70,s