Photo-a-Day  (Wednesday, 28th December, 2022)

That is a cracking picture, where did yoo take it from ?

Live span of the old building about 2-300yrs compared with the new about100yrs at the most. Unfortunately new building's are not built to last

The old building looks to have had an extension at sometime. Does anyone know when?

Big glass walls might be fazed out in time though climate change. Wonder what it was like in the front part of the building this last summer with sun blazing through. Though someone will tell me they are double or triple glazed & tinted so it was as cool as a cucumber inside !

Just arrived home from a cataract operation and can't see too well but enough to know which building I prefer!

I noticed the difference in the buildings on the right. Just as good a building but not quite as much ornamentation , I wonder if they just ran out of money or perhaps it was a different builder.

It used to be called College Avenue. Has that been dropped now that it's no longer a road?

The Aviva advert which was filmed partly in Library Street is presently showing on the TV - the Accrington brick buildings figure prominently.
As for the extension - the date in the arch on the right says 1928. Immediate post-WW1 Wigan Observer articles announced that an extension to the Mining College would be built as a War Memorial, but, as far as I know, nothing came of it.

Ron put this on the Album, it's a superb photo and shows the grand building of Wigan Mining & Technical College before the main extensions on the Millgate end, though there is a lower floor extension at the top on the Millgate end with the two arched windows, (on the photo by Dennis above these appear to be still there,) also if that is a ladder it looks to be leaning at a very precarious angle.

https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=2067&gallery=Wigan+Mining+%26+Technical+College&page=1

Hi Irene , I have a friend who has had two . The second one didn’t resolve itself straight away , but with a bit of time it did . She is absolutely fine now .
I wish you well Irene .

Hope you recover well Irene. Heard many very good reports of the outcomes of these procedures. Hopefully you'll be able to see for miles and miles and miles, as the song says! No question which is the better looking building for me, always the solid red brick, but the building with the best view is the one on the left! Thank you Dennis, nice photograph.

Thankyou so much, Marky and Pat. It is actually my second cataract operation. The first one was miraculous! We'll have to see if the second eye proves the same. My son-in-law has recently had one done and his sight is improving gradually rather then immediately. I'm just glad to have got the operation behind me.

Irene you will be ok, it takes a few weeks but at the start it seems a bit of a hassle. All good wishes.

Thankyou Helen. xxxx

Best wishes Irene, take care..Good photo Dennis. Before I saw any of the comments, that was my first thought. We're was it taken from??

Irene,I'm on the waiting list..how long did you have to wait from being put forward for the op.

Lucky to get the procedure done Irene, as Maureen says some of the lists are endless waiting to be done. You must have waited a long time. I hope the operation is successful.

Thankyou Veronica! I could see the Christmas Tree in 3D last night due to the plastic dome I had over my eye. I have been able to remove it this morning and bathe the eye and have my first drops in. According to the literature it will take a few days to settle. When we eventually get round to having another coffee in Wigan, I will be "All the better to see you with, my dear", like Red Riding Hood's Grandma,...or was that the wolf?!! Lol! xxx

Maureen, I did answer your question but it hasn't appeared! I was put on the waiting list for my current cataract operation last February and got an appointment for the op in August so waited six months. Unfortunately I couldn't have it done as I had a cough and you have to keep very still during the operation and I was constantly coughing. I was rung up and offered a new date in October but I already had something on on that date so had to refuse, but was lucky enough to be fitted in yesterday, (December 28th). I imagine the waiting list will vary from patient to patient and hospital to hospital, but I would imagine about a six month wait. I have no idea why my earlier answer wasn't shown. Anyway, Good Luck!