Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 8th June, 2014)

Presume you have superimposed that old bus o n the new roundabout!!!

good picture is the king billy behind the bus?

That's a very poor picture Andrew
Not up to your usual standards I'm afraid
Your cutting out is not good at all
There's a white haze around the pub and bus

I think I recognise the King Billy, but nothing else. is that Liverpool Road straight ahead?

Horrible!

good pictures of platt bridge ,have you got a new gadget?

Its an honest picture! Andrew has not tried to hide the fact that the bus is superimposed. It is an excellent shot showing the old with the modern day.

Ernest, I think that you and I are like minded.

It's great to divide opinions!

The original is here:
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=1675&gallery=Platt+Bridge&offset=0

The idea is to take an old photo and place it in a wider scene than originally shot (hence the Ford Escort is cut in half behind the bus) to show how the town changes over time. Inevitably, some efforts work better than others. But you get the idea - the thoroughfare from the king billy where traffic used to pass along the road has now been closed off, of course, with a large traffic island now in it's place at what was the centre of the junction.

Joe, no new gadget just an idea to try summat different to show the change over time. Some folk will like it, some will not, which is fine - there's nowt as boring as bland photography

I like it, but if I didn't I would rather say nothing at all or just "not too keen on this one" than to be so downright rude. I thought it was the younger element that have no manners.

I like it. Always open to new ideas and techniques. The McDonalds sign adds to it as well. :-)

Travelled that 320 route many a time. Also if that is the King Billy our Doctors where just a few yards on

Love it, Another goodun Andrew.

L.U.T By gum that bus brings back some great memories of catching the 59 from Owfen to Tommy Linacre school back in the sixties,

Looks like we have had a bit of snow on the rooftops !
Liked the previous pictures better andrew.

I remember the King Billy then next door Kenyons sweet shop, then the Palace Cinema, then the Tower Billiard Hall.

There's been several of the old/new mixes published recently regarding the D Day landings. Some very poignant ones showing families of today enjoying the sunny beaches of Normandy and the same place (roughly) showing the troops getting ashore. They are very powerful images. The 1944 part of the pictures tended to be in black and white. It's good to try some new interpretations of Wigan.

I agree with Irene as my mother used to say manners cost nothing.

I agree with Irene as my mother used to say manners cost nothing.

Ignore the perfectionists Andrew...An excellent picture as usual!

Im with Ernest its Horrible, if you clever cameramen keep mucking about with the photos on photo of the day that you put on us amateur snappers will be put off from contributing

Very good Andrew, I like it!