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

Thanks Mrs M,
This is possibly the pub I am confusing with the one at the bottom of Coppull Lane (or maybe I have become confused over the years on the original narrative). Yes, it looks like the position where Mabbs Cross School was eventually built. I remember my dad telling me that he worked for a local butcher after school delivering (then picking up a bottle of whiskey for the butcher). The butcher then gave my dad meat scraps to deposit in trees where the school is now... for the wild cats! I believe the bottle of whiskey a day had a part in putting a sad early end to the butcher's life. I've looked again at the old Coppull Lane maps and can see a mill and 'mill cottages'... there are other properties that aren't identified.