Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 12th March, 2024)

If you like privacy you would not want to live here. Every one using the canal/towpath looking over and overlooked at the back also.The water looks a muddy grey and I bet there a few rats in the banks

Would this be Gathhurst, John?
Where ever it is, it looks lovely especially during the Summer months.

A nice photo John, a peaceful, waterside place to live, complete with boat for messing about on the river...oops that should be canal !

That's a nice scene and looks to be a peaceful place to live. I like the reflection of the trees in the water.

Looks like they’re short of nothing. I particularly like that gas lamp. The boat is very nice as well…and the outlook. I have no idea where it is.

not sure but could be a extension of the main bunglow

Gathurst?

Lovely peaceful scene John. How nice to sit and relax on that veranda at any time of the year taking in the scenery.

It's one of the most sort after places in Wigan, Gathhurst/Shevington, a really nice and safe community to live.
The people are so nice and where ever you walk the streets are clean.

Looks like Gathhurst People have money there.

PeterP your right about being overlooked, especially by the large house.
It wouldn't do for me, although it's lovely, I'd fall in the canal after a few glasses of sherry, plus the smoke from my coal fire may annoy the people close by.
Cheers John.

It's a lovely place right down to the locks etc. it's been too many years since I was there!

I think this could be Mick's stomping ground. Gathhurst.
He photographed quite a few shots canal dwellings from Parbold Appley Bridge, Gathhurst and the famous Shevy. Good photo John.

Peter P , were you ever an Estate Agent ?
Thought not :-) .

It looks like the bottom of Gathurst/Shevington, near to the old Navigation pub. A nice quiet location but a bit too close to the water for me, flood risk.

The waters aren't mucky they have never been as clean, the canal always looks brownish after rain.
It's not an ideal place to live because you get too many gorpers and noisy traffic at the old hump back bridge.

Arthur I would say more like Standish Lower Ground than Gathurst but Mick would know precisely as I only enter or exit the towpath at Parbold or Wigan along that section sorry couldn’t be more precise.

Not mad on the idea of living so near to a canal,rats for one thing.

Lovely peaceful scene and a very nice bungalow but you wouldn't be able to let children play in the garden. I'd be terrified of them falling into the water, so not for me thank you!

WN1 Standisher - an insurance assessor would think the same.
Also agree with Peter P - rodent risk.

Sue - don't know about Shevington being 'safe' - a man was found murdered there in 2022 - no different to many other towns and villages I'm afraid.

Catchup time ,Veronica I was to busy to bother going to that meeting with Criss Green and co so don’t know the outcome,Colin with posting the photo of Aspull end of Borsdane Wood I was thinking did you ever live near by as my sister who would have been 92 years old who lived in Westhoughton had a good friend Annie Traynor and Pearl that lived on the border of westhoughton and Aspull maybe a relative to you,Irene great area around Ingleton we’ve done the Ingleton Falls Trail and White Scar Caves several times and delivered concrete to Dent also Hanson Quarry at Ingleton………Ozy I’ve worked out of Garston Dock also but much later than you as we have a plant there and did most of the regeneration around Albert Dock,M&S Arena etc etc good times.

John, after the recent fuss over Catherine’s picture, I think this has been ‘photo shopped’. For two reasons I have spotted.
1. The boat has been taken off the Thames.
2. Maureen has been expunged from the front deck.
Amazing that no one picked up on this gratuitous falsification.
Kensington Palace tipped off!

yes and they'd need money too for the high insurance with being so close to water, and they'll need the boat for when it floods, then there's the vandals and the druggies off the estates to contend with as well as the rats chewing everything, also there's the constant roar of traffic from the very busy motorway that's just a stones throw away, so as for it being peaceful or nice and quiet, no it is definitely not. You can also see the stream where the outfall from all the septic tanks runs into, it then flows into the canal, looks nice with the wooden bridges, but will be awful in summer with swarms of biting midges.

Veronica I have one of those gas lamps almost identical,I bought several £25 each in the early eighties as believe it or not they were being scrapped in regeneration areas same as the old telephone boxes but certainly not scrapped now.

This is better than the comedians ha hahaha,as my 102 years old mother-in-law says the world would be an awful boring place if everyone thought the same .

Very little chance of flooding here...there is a run-off overflow weir on the canal about 6 or 7 hundred yards away, and it's well above the level of the river at this point. You can never say never, obviously, but the Douglas Valley would be flooded to a depth of about 30 feet before this house was at risk...

I don’t think I would like to dip my toes in the water above.
John I believe the ‘Hub’ is proceeding.
My friend who lives in a lovely cottage down by the side of the Post Office set back on the left , has been banned from Chris Green’s Office because she keeps complaining of the cars that park illegally down there. His two ‘male office helpers’ were very rude to her. It seems he’s not much help over small complaints only in the big ones like having a bank in Market St. That street where she lives could do with one or two of those gas lamps! The only light is from what used to the Vic! It’s pitch black at the bottom. ;o))

Canals don't flood !

Correct Dick Dastardly.
Canals can't flood because of the overflow next to every lock.

Quite righ DD...that's what I was referring to with the overflow weir. I don't know what the technical term is for them, but they act just like an overflow if there's too much water entering the canal. The water runs over the edge into the river well below. Historically, the problem had always been keeping enough water IN canals, which is why so many holding reservoirs had to be built to 'top up' in dry periods..

Mr Dasterdly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njg2Xa2FB-8&t=9s

Veronica never had much time for Chris Green but even less after what has been said.
Colin you to have a sense of humour excellent.

Bung a low roof on it.

Cheers everyone have a good evening.

This place to me is the gown I own ,
its thread can never leave me
for I am it and it is me ,
yours , I hope , means same !
The story of this Brew I climbed
with childhood eyes enquiring
has left me with that place again ,
that pulls me back with need .
In my mind I see this place
as each my footsteps climb
Ask how I feel
Well , my true is real
in wanting to climb again …

It was around about here that old railway carriages were parked up at one time if anyone remembers them, and I'm not sure if they were for living in, for storage or if the hens that could be seen were kept in them, also there was a goat or maybe two tethered up on the land.
There are only two lions to be seen now.
If the folks who bought the land like living there then good luck to them, though it isn't a place where I'd be happy to live.

Joan, do folks actually stand on top of that bridge just to have a gawp?
I may be wrong but I haven't noticed a pavement on that side of the bridge where folks could walk, is there?

John, glad you appreciated my sense of humour, that’s what it was meant to be. These days so short in supply.
Loved your photo. Cheers.

DEFINATELY next to the Navigation Bridge Shevington. Where the conservatory is there was once a small swimming pool, not a very private one though !!