Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 7th February, 2023)

My Dad Bill Bradshaw started work there after he left school, his sister Annie was already employed there.

Those trailers spoil what otherwise would have been a great shot

My Auntie worked here. I remember she used to bring home "banding" which was a kind of tubular string that my friends and I used for the . whips on out Top-and -Whips. Yes, pity about the trailers but can't be helped if they were stuck there.

But that’s just how it is T,a genuine photo,no messing or editing.

Looks like a scrap yard of HGVs.
There is also an eye sore at Platt Bridge, just on the left hand side going towards Spring View, just opposite the filling station. A large field of decommissioned trailers.

Wasn’t it at that mill where they made a drama some years ago?

They made a tv production , can't recall the title but it was based on the lives of mill workers at Quarry Bank in Cheshire. Good series but the BBC in its wisdom never made another series. Wonder if thats it Linma ?

Absolutely Pw, not a criticism at all, was just meaning how good of a shot of the mill and surrounding buildings it would be without

Linma, it was some episodes of the BBC Peaky Blinders.

I remember being in Eckersley Mill buying some bedding from the factory shop, when Philip Glenister walked past, and I was told that they were filming a drama in the Mill. One of those gritty northern dramas I should think - Jimmy McGovern perhaps.

Would the drama have been -Clocking Off- ??

Well done Brian, Clocking Off.

Could be, Brian. Can't remember the year. Some brilliant dramas then.

Brian & Linma, Trencherfield Mill was used for filming 'Clocking Off,' with Eckersley Mill being used as I said earlier for filming 'Peaky Blinders,' also both mills were used in the film 'Testimony.' See the copied and pasted text from WEP below.

Wigan Pier’s giant mills are a popular haunt as locations for both film and television programmes.

For several years Trencherfield Mill was the backdrop to the BBC drama Clocking Off starring Robert Glenister, Sarah Lancashire and Christopher Eccleston.

And both it and the neighbouring Eckersley Mills were used extensively in the late 1980s for filming of the Tony Palmer film Testimony: a biopic on the life of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich played by Sir Ben Kingsley.

The giant steam engine and the working looms at Trencherfield Mill appeared in dramatic musical interludes while Eckersley Mills’ interiors doubled as a music conservatoire classroom and Stalin’s office.

Copied and pasted from here:
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/tv-crew-descends-wigan-mill-film-peaky-blinders-1109618

If you want to know owt someone on here always does. Brilliant.

But that’s just how it is T,a genuine photo,no messing or editing.

Tony Palmer's film about Wigan Casino is far from just being about northern soul music . It features some brilliant footage of places like the old market hall , the International Pool , Station Road , Westwood power station and more . Watch on you tube . 26 mins .