Photo-a-Day  (Saturday, 28th September, 2024)

When are the planned regeneration of this land going to start?

I presume that was taken looking towards the old gas showrooms ?
It's a travesty ...the ruination of a good old Lancashire town.
I feel like Mark who commented on yesterday's PAD......why should I give a jot that you have a useless Council who havent a clue what they are doing...but I do.

I can only see one feathered friend…is he/ she the owner? It looks very informal anyway.

Completely quackers, Dennis!

They used to duck witches in duck ponds, didn't they, to see if they were telling the truth? Perhaps the custom could be revived with the councillors seeing as it's nearly Hallowe'en and we've got a new duck pond, and perhaps we would get some answers as to what exactly is going on with this "Wonderful Modern New Wigan" we were all encouraged to get excited about. At least when The Galleries was built, we could see something was happening.

just what is the delay?

As I mentioned yesterday the town has lost its character and identity. In fact the whole country is losing it. It can only get worse with the trio in charge.

When in town last week a bulldozer was levelling the site but when work will start on the building of the new Hilton Hotel is anyone’s guess.
Behind the camera there is still no sign of the old Marketgate Centre being developed for the new Market Hall.
According to report earlier this year Galliford Try had been appointed to undertake the work starting in September but it didn’t say which year!!!!!!

Sorry to say it will soon be biggest gypsy site in North west.

Ponder here o while the yonder waste of yesterwas.
Failed mod con galleries and the empty Wigin bus.

The bird looks like a Pied Wagtail Veronica.
Isn't nature wonderful, in any demolished areas the wild flower and grass seeds soon begin to grow and cover the bare earth.
So Dennis your photo proves that beauty and life can still be found surrounding this oasis of calm in the chaos of the town centre.

Veronica, apparently I'm wrong in saying the bird is a Pied Wagtail, and that it's more likely with the white breast feathers to be a Dipper, which can be seen along the River Douglas. It must have come along to see if any Tiddlers have been put into the Marketgate pond yet, also a couple of gnomes with fishing rods wouldn't look amiss there either.

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It's not often I disagree with you Cyril, and please don't take offence as you always put forward fair and interesting comments, but although I agree with you that flora and fauna DO soon begin to establish themselves on waste ground where demolition has taken place, the above is NOT an oasis of calm and I see no beauty in it. We have got our lovely Wigan/Mesnes Park, (however people wish to name it), only a matter of yards away from there....now that really IS beautiful and is indeed an oasis, and we are so lucky to have it, but the above scene is meant to be a town centre with shops, a new market and long-promised new amenities. Where are they? As the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day" but I'm sure the Romans at least made a start on it.

What only 1 pigeon to be seen Cyril even they’ve fled.. I haven’t been for weeks like most folk. The last time I came into town it looked like the outside cafes have been taken over.

We were looking at this demolition site last week from Makinsons Arcade and still nothing happening.The Grand Arcade needs more visitors or that will end up the same,pity there’s some really good shops in there.Had a walk round to the John Bull Chophouse before having a couple of pints in The Moon under Water then bus home a good change to driving.

Is this a vision of the future? No money to rebuild, so just an area of extra parkland complete with duck pond. Grassed or paved all over with a few drink and food kiosks and plenty of benches. It would be appreciated at lunch time by all the college students, but not by hopeful shoppers

You have it exactly Veronica...the whole country is losing its identity.
Even Mr B has recently admitted that.Some things just don't work.

Maybe they found parts of Rome whilst digging Irene . Such the delay ?
Wasn’t an archaeological enquiry part of the sequence of the build , I read somewhere ?
I was watching Time Team once where a ceremonial tree was found , not by Time Team , I don’t think , but could have been .
Anyway this was being washed away by the sea so the archaeologists wanted to dig it up and preserve its history and meaning . People protested with the deepest emotion saying it should be left in place and not removed as its whole meaning , which we could never know , belonged to them , and as such should be respected and left to the sea .
I can’t remember how far back the people who set this tree came from , but I remembering asking myself the same question , should it be dug up and studied and preserved for us ask or left in place as those who put it place wanted it to be . I found myself and still do , on the side of the protestors . I’m not sure but I think it was dug up .
Sorry Dennis , I realise I am seriously taking a wrong left for which I apologise to you and WW sincerely.

Mark, I wonder if you mean ' Seahenge ' found on the Norfolk coast ?
It was removed or parts of it were & now some timbers are desplayed in Kings Lynn museum....wonder what the Ancients would think abt that ?
Apologises to Dennis, who always gets us talking !

No offence taken Irene, it was meant as a bit of jest hence my later comment about a couple of fishing gnomes put in place.

A Chinese company was to fund the rebuilding, or so we was led to believe, though it looks as if they have demolished the buildings and fled with the money, so we may have the pond for some time, and with all the rain it'll begin to swell and the ducks from the park will be moving to their new town centre des-res, the bird haters will be moaning.

Veronica, they may well have had a night time cull of the town centre pigeons, it's the same as 'Lamping', but for some reason legal, and if anyone else did it they'd be prosecuted for firing guns in a public area.

So even the ducks are being shoved out of their surroundings Cyril. It’s like a giant merry go round in Wigan for some..