Photo-a-Day (Friday, 24th September, 2021)
Frog Lane
Photo: Mick Byrne (Panasonic DMC-TZ100)
Brings back memories Mick. Spent many lunch hours in the pub when I worked at Walmsleys just down the road.
They have done a grand job with the houses on the right, i can see they have built houses on left near Brickmakers to, by the way Mick i think this is woodhouse lane, nice pic.
Woodhouse Lane!
Mick might have been using his zoom camera, so he could be stood in Frog lane.
I am always a bit hazy about the roads in that area and am not sure if Woodhouse Lane is the continuation of Frog Lane.
A lot of industries around that area at one time but I don't remember anybody making bricks.
The pub now get well used when they have a match at the DW
It actually says "Frog Lane" over the top of the photo. I've only just seen that.
I've often wondered why it was called Frog Lane.
Tom, from the link scroll down the thread to Dostafs comment re brickmaking on Woodhouse Lane and the photos in Wigan Through Wickham's Window.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/communicate/mb_message.php?opt=f1&opt2=&msd=804442&offset=17079&subject=Brick%2520Making
Maureen, the indent in a brick is called a frog, so maybe the brickmaking could somehow be connected to the name. Only surmising though.
Thank you Cyril,that sounds very feasible..I've been pondering that question for a long time...it does sound as though that could be the answer.x
There is/was a lodge at the other end of Walmsley's (over the rail line from this pub) known locally as the Lime Pond, maybe that it was from there they dug the clay to make the bricks.
Old maps show a clay pit behind the terraced roads opposite the pub - and the Pagefields Loco Brick Works north of the pub in the space between the back of Woodhouse Lane houses and the loco sheds.