Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 19th December, 2023)

Painting with light Poet, painting with light.

Every time I see photos of standish it always takes me back to the early sixties the girl friends I had back then,one in question was a girl called maria simm she lived next door to Simms funerals on Preston Road standish.

Artistic photo. Well done.

Some say the loss of the big tree that fell in the storm has improved the view .

I like your Light Fantastic Poet. The wife of James
& his daughter Alice might like the fact you picked their headstone out. I always think if a name in a churchyard etc is seen or read, that person has been remembered by someone.

Very atmospheric and even with death people can still show their respect for the person's who are no longer with us.

Thanks Poet for the picture, you don't get shots like this when all the leaves are on the trees.
During the Covid Lockdown I used to walk through the graveyard on a daily basis taking a rest on a bench enjoying the peace and quite.
I remember texting my cousin to say that while sitting on the bench had met a 'Lady Friend' who I used to talk to for half an hour or so but that she didn't say much if anything! She was quite shocked until I told her that the lady friend died in 1847!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree Helen I too like to read the names on old headstones I find them fascinating. They had lives once as we have. I imagine the stones as they’re projected in that photo as people queuing up and awaiting the grand finale. Trumpets sounding of course!.

Eddie Rowland. I couldn’t believe it when I read Maria Simm. Maria is my best friend and has been for the past 60 years. I will be seeing her on Christmas Eve and will mention your name to her.
She is now and has been for the past 55 years Maria Taylor and still lives in Standish.

Nice one Dave, as per usual i knew whose photo it was before i saw your 'name'. The inventor or crosswords is buried near there, if you enter the churchyard via the Lychgates, not the pub, the actual gates, then turn left he is at 5 across, 3 down.

Would that be Edmund Rowland, once of Wigan Road, Pip's dad?

James Hanson, yes I am pips dad.

"As you are now, so once was I and as I am now so you shall be"

Superb atmospheric photo Poet, it would be a good place to sit and read Charles Dickens.

So, she leaning on her husband’s arm, they turned homeward by a rosy path which the gracious sun struck out for them in its setting. And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round! ~ Our Mutual Friend.

“Death doesn’t change us more than life.” ~ The Old Curiosity Shop.

Perhaps one of the most famous people to have been laid to rest in St Wilfred's Graveyard is that of Opera Singer, Dame Eva Turner. She was born in Oldham but had family connection in Standish.
She died in London on 16 June 1990 at ninety-eight years. The funeral took place two weeks later at Golders Green Crematorium and her ashes were deposited in the family grave at Standish in her native Lancashire.
The great and the good of the operatic and theatrical world were (I understand) in attendance in the graveyard.
Please Google her name for more information on her remarkable career.

They have lived a live.

Kath H.
Thanks for your post,it's good to hear that Maria is doing fine and still living in Standish.
Maria new my wife of 55 years she lived in school Lane, her name was hilda Lowe she passed away in
2020.

Did Maria Simm have a brother Stan Simm?

Bill- yes Maria does have a brother Stan. I will see him on Christmas Eve as well.

Did Maria Simm have a sister called Ann ?

Eddie, you know me very well. Sorry to hear about Hilda.

Back to St.Wilfrids, let's not forget, the church is in Standish parish, Chorley deanery, in the diocese of Blackburn.
It's only Wigan connection is through the title of the local authority.

Darren, this quotation is on my uncle's gravestone and I must say it makes me very uneasy when I see it. A bit creepy.

Kath H,thank you for that and great that Stan is still around.We are both in our 80’s now and He was my boss at Marley Concrete in the early 60’s.
He used to give me a lift back to Wigan in his Morris minor.

Kath H,thank you for that and great that Stan is still around.We are both in our 80’s now and He was my boss at Marley Concrete in the early 60’s.
He used to give me a lift back to Wigan in his Morris minor.