Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 11th February, 2024)

What an attractive house. It appears to be well looked after with the nice blinds at the windows, so does someone live there now or is it used for business purposes? I can't make out what the plaque by the door and the notice on the corner say.

What a pleasant looking house, shame about the black pole stuck right in front of it but you can't have everything. It comes as a relief after looking at todays PAD !

Oops, I should have said it was a relief after looking at the photo of the demolition site on Album !

Thanks Dennis, the beauty of these pictures in the winter sunshine is that there are no leaves on the trees to obscure.
I always think of the name Popplestone when I see this building adjacent to St John’s Church, Powell Street entrance, there was a boy at my school in the 1950’s Edwin Popplestone, it might have been his family’s business before Padget’s?

I believe it was an ‘up market’ decorating business. The house looks Georgian - just wondering if it’s that old. It always stood out in that location near Wigan Lane.

One of the Pagets daughters married one of Hesketh sons who where also a decorator family , they came to live in Appley Bridge.

Colin I was in Edwin Popplestons class at St Johns in the 50s. Edwin is in the picture of St Johns in the schools section of Wigan world. He lived in Swinley Road. It was the Poppleston family business.

Anythings better than that Market building site, Helen.

Veronica, Powell Street and Greenough Street were only built in the 1800’s so I think it must have been constructed in Victorian time in the Georgian Style, very attractive though and good to see it well maintained.

Always liked this grand looking building but if it is a private house it is in the wrong place for me.

It did ‘blend in’ though Colin in Victorian times, even in the 50’s it didn’t look out of place. Walking past St John’s Presbytery there used to be a high wall somewhere along there as well if I remember. Pw the house was there first so it wouldn’t have been as busy as it is now road wise. Is it a business of sorts these days?.

Apparently it's Limes Bridge House and described as being Georgian, and there's very little information about it, except a bit in the council's conservation area online appraisal, see pages 25 and 26 in link: https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Planning-and-Building-Control/Conservation-areas/Dicconson-Conservation-Area.pdf

as said it was Pagetts and along the years it's been a few different businesses, and according to Yell, Aspull Electrical Services are now there.

To the left of this house and around the corner onto Standishgate was once an ancient row of houses and shops, I vaguely remember them and them being demolished in the late 1960s, Ron posted a photo on the Album of those at the bottom of Standishgate.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=34249&gallery=Standishgate&page=25

and John commented on the names of the shops that carried on further along from the clubhouse of St John and onto Powell Street:
Comment by: John on 10th April 2020 at 00:06
"After the Convent is the entrance to St. Johns' churchyard then the club rooms, seen on the photo. Then came the properties which were demolished : Thornton' s Tailors, Poppleston Plumbers, Alice Monks Grocer then Hilton & Layland Estate Agent."

From here:
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=2&id=32065&gallery=CONVENT+School&offset=0