Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 24th December, 2023)

Looks ghostly !

Makes me think of levitation, spooky eh?

What a striking but sombre image John.
Immediately made me think of the men in the trenches of war. Cold, dark & wet. War is hopeless, no one truly wins & the world never learns.

This is the ghost of ‘Boer War Past’.
Nice one Alan.

I agree Helen..the futility of war which still goes on and on….and it’s the civilians that suffer the most in today’s wars.
The statue looks reproachful to me.

Sorry, meant say nice one John!

It reminds me of Marley's Ghost in "Scrooge", which I am looking forward to watching at 11.30....I look forward to that film every year. I remember the original soldier statue in Wigan Park in the 1950s (I seem to remember he held either a rifle or a flag)....my Dad always used to read the inscription on the plinth out loud when we came out of the cafe, whilst little Irene used to "roly-poly" down the grassy slopes by the side of the steps in the sunshine.

Another nocturnal gem of a picture . You make creative and imaginative pictures John . Keep em coming .

Aye , the safest place to be in modern warfare is in the army .

What’s the betting this one will appear on
t’ other site?
I don’t go on that much but I’ll take a leaf out of Irene’s book and say where it comes from.

How would one find this other site?

It's the Wigan Nostalgia site on facebook, John.

My brother in California looks in at the site you mentioned Irene. He has lived in the US since the 1960's but keeps an interest in Wigan.

Very nice photo.

Thanks Irene, I've just had look and you have to join up to see what's going on so I don't think I will be bothering

Sounds a bit like the three Kings asking the way… ‘’how would one find the stable with the child’’?.
Sorry it is Christmas Eve and the Kings are a bit early but that’s why they were late..they couldn’t find the way because the star was covered by clouds ..;o))

That's a good and different from the norm photo John.

Irene, I couldn't remember, though it was a revolver and a flag the soldier statue held, see photo by Dave Green from Album: https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=4673&gallery=Mesnes+Park&page=2