Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 17th October, 2024)

A few more village greens could do with a post like this. Many a time I have been driving and came to a junction and did not know which way to go

I like that scene. I like the unpretentiousness of the simple fingerpost sign with its familiar names, and the chimneys on the terraced row, even though the no longer issue smoke. There is just a timelessness about them and about Aspull in general. We still have a chimney, as do all the houses around where I live in Abram, and I like to see the homely shadows of them thrown by the evening sun onto the gable ends of nearby terraced rows....a little reminder of a coal-fire childhood. Fanciful maybe, but I don't care!

I agree Irene my last house where I lived for 30 years ( next door to where Robert Shaw was born) has had one of its chimneys ‘ amputated’…I felt my heart wrench when I saw it! They are massive chimneys unused since my old neighbour passed away but so full of character.
Good photo Dennis and a ‘ sign of the times?’…..

My favourite area of Wigan and District.x

Think that electricity pole needs attention ,before it falls over.
Good photo Dennis, I remember many years ago the snow covering that sign post.

Good photo Dennis.
Looks a bit lost and bewildered, but a smiley painted on its face could fix it.

David - 1962/63 Winter?

Remember that one Gary, my sister was born in 63. but I remember another year when it covered the sign post but cant put a date to it.

I lived just down the road maybe 150yard from the finger post Dennis School Close but well gone now,Gary January 1963 started my working life on the farm,hands sticking to barrow shafts by gum it wer coud but loved every minute,car’s were driving across the river Thames frozen over.

Who can forget ‘ 63. How on earth did we manage without central heating? Nowadays we are too scared of switching it on! Just one room with a coal fire - yes it was blazing but too many sat around it - and still our backs were cold with the draught blowing in under the door. My dad’s old Army jacket as a draught excluder didn’t help much.
Then having to brave opening the back door to make way to the outside lavatory. Brrr…
“ Get some coal while you’re outside!…Hurry up and shut that door”! Let’s hope we don’t have a Winter like that this time…God forbid.