Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 28th April, 2024)

Beautiful building, but they need to paint the adjoining brick wall.
Good photo, Colin.

Dave thanks for your comments about my adventures and also Irene and not forgetting Veronica and many others,Colin and Dennis are conservative but would definitely not do for us all to be the same as it would be an awful boring place,good photos Colin and obviously Dennis for your dedication to PAD.

I personally would never paint a house white,it is one of those colours which soon looks dirty. Also would never live in a house which opens directly onto the footpath always had a front garden. This building looks like it has stood the test of time and will looked finished when the wall is sorted and painted.

Grade ll Listed and currently on the market: Offers over £425,000.

It’s good to see the building restored. I love the arch window feature above the door. Makes me wonder if it was originally a leaded light.
Once bricks are painted it has to be kept up or ends up looking worse for wear. A true family home when families were larger in those days.

That is such a neat house, it shows what can be done with old properties. Nice photo Colin.

Totally off at a tangent .... re the people who post with ficticious or several names... the best thing to do is ignore them. The more people talk about them, the more limelight they get.
A thought for the day.

Take the wall down a bit, paint it magnolia and fit a new ornamental iron fence and gate.
Job done.
Are you sure this is Wigan Lane lol.

And for a mere £425,000 , you could move in tomorrow … but don’t hang about , as I can’t see it being on the market for long at this giveaway price .

Yep ! … just as I’ve long thought .. the lunatics have most definitely snatched the keys to the asylum in this barmpot country of ours and are most likely holding the staff hostage in an abandoned nuclear shelter somewhere on Rannoch Moor as I type this .

John (W) thanks for your kind comments and encouragement.
I am envious. Of your bike trips which remind me of the song from The Wizard Of Oz: If I Only Had A Bike!
But first of all I would need to visit The Emerald City and say to the Wizard ‘If I Only Had Balance!’.

For those who aren't sure where this is, New Lodge is a street off Wigan Lane a couple of hundred yards past the Infirmary towards Wigan on the left hand side more or less opposite Clifton Crescent.

I love your photos, John, (Westhoughton), Colin and Dennis....Dennis's amusing and good-natured comments, (some in dialect), over the last few days have really made me smile! I have passed New Lodge off Wigan Lane many times, especially when we had our much-missed dogs, as the vets' surgery was nearby, but I have never actually walked down there.... a case of "so near yet so far away".

Location is just lower down from The Bellingham.
I imagine when first built much of the area was fields and woodland and few houses, perhaps with much more land and privacy.
Makes me wonder when Wigan Lane was first paved and a firm road laid. The lane from Wigan to Standish at one time must have been no more than a dirt track along which marched soldiers from Roman times through to the Civil War and the Scottish Troops of The Young Pretender.

Spacious, Grade 2 listed house in Wigan with many wooden sash windows. Reminders of Victorian coal scuttles, and a clatter through the traditional letter box that makes one shiver to this day ........ ' Gas Bill !'

Your contributions are appreciated Colin. Thank you.

Only one person mentioning Shevington on these post and it's not him who is supposed to live there.
I agree with Helen of Troy just ignore her.

Cheers Colin you’re photo today reminds me of our last house 353 Bolton Road W/H as far as the white goes,when we sold in 2017 no rendering and all mostly Accrington now the latest owners have rendered and painted white,if I could turn back time.

Colin, good photo of an historic house.
Ozy, it may well be a good price for a big 4 bedroom house, but it's listed so you can't please yourself what you want to do to it, and there's other drawbacks too, so I'll not be rushing round to buy it.

I wonder if the lady of this house will be donkey stoning the step?

There would be plenty room for your Aga in there Ozy!

My parents once bought a bicycle for me from the owner of this house. I remember going into the house, with my mum and dad, to have a look at the bicycle and to see if I liked it.

It’s getting the Aga over the steps though Dtease. The doorway looks a bit narrow. Might have to take it apart!

Especially if she’s just mopped it Veronica. They didn’t like you walking on the step when they had just donkey stoned it. Would result in a clout round the ear hole every time that would.

I certainly hope the Aga won't be taken over the step just after it's been mopped and donkey-stoned, DTease! We lived in a row of six terraced houses behind the Presbytery Wall in Ince when I was growing up, and no-one could see our flags in front of the houses from the main road, and yet all the women in the row still mopped and donkey-stoned the step and flags, and wiped over the window-sills; it was known as "doing the front" and they wouldn't have dreamt of not doing it, whether it was seen or not.

Next time you’re passing Cyril , take a good look at the driveway gates on the place … They favver they’ve been made out of owd pallets … and the cheeky buggers are asking close on half a million for it …

I should coco ! …

I’ll be sticking with the Anderson shelter for the time being I’m thinking .

And if I did have half a million going spare , I wouldn’t be spending in on yon place , I’d be looking for somewhere a bit more upmarket …

… somewhere like Shevvy perhaps .

Park William, iron merchant, (W. Park & Co.) New lodge, Wigan lane.
Source the 1869 Wigan directory.

Appears there was a daring burglary in the 1800s while W Park Esq a borough magistrate of New Lodge was away with his family in London.
Source British Newspaper Archives.

Personally would prefer the old bare bricks rather than old bricks painted white. No offence to potential new owners, but the Victorian white washed out house springs to mind. Presume this was done to improve illumination from the paraffin lamps, used during daring night time visits to the necessarium ?

Necessarium … now that really has to qualify for word of the week T.D.

necessarium … necessarium …
necessarium …

That’s a belter … in fact , I’m going to start using the word next time I go in the Brocket .

Captain Scott should have used the word really shouldn’t he ?

‘’ Just nipping out to the necessarium lads to do the necessary . I may
necessarily be gone for a protracted period , so if you feel it necessary to leave without me , please feel free . ‘’

I think he may well have been remembered to this day had he uttered those words … instead of whatever it was that he said .

So that’s where the old saying comes from T.D. “thev only lerrim out while they whitewash”.

Ozy un Dennis: Aye lads, un speykin o Igloo, a see thiv gon un whitewashed awe thinside o yon New Lodge too.

Gud luck wit Brocket Ozy, tha braver thun me. Mi neighbours greyt, greyt grandad uttered summert similar to captain Oats befoower steppin threw back doower, in o blizzurd . "Am goin tert thunderbox, fer er..... bit,. dont wait up" Thi font im in't mornin. He'd slorred off sed necessarium, still stuck, clutchin o frozun thrutchin hondle, un it tuck o fortnit thaw im aert.

Necessarium, what a lovely word, it just rolls off the tongue. I had to Google the meaning:
A Reredorter: A monastery's latrine, outhouse or lavatory. Any outhouses.
Just wonderful what you can pick up on WW.