Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 10th November, 2024)

No need for any "A-lister" to turn the lights on this year has two thirds of the shops in Wigan have been pulled down or shut. That will save us a few bob out of the council coffers.Have a charity raffle and the winner gets to turn the lights on.

Well, that will cheer things up a bit !

It would have been more appropriate to have seen some Remembrance Sunday Poppy's to mark all the fallen war heroes...today.
I love seeing all the photo a day photos, but think a photo of Remembrance Sunday would have been more fitting that's all. Thank you to all the contributors.

'At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them'

A complete waste of time and money.....lights on the bottom end of The Makinson Arcade facing that depressing "No-Man's-Land" opposite? What difference will a few lights make? Put some up in the town centre itself.... Market Place and Standishgate where there are still a few shops and a few people, fair enough, but not there....they will look like a 40 watt bulb in Ebenezer Scrooge's office.

Mick, LIGHTS! You are far too optimistic, you should know by now that Wigan Council can only afford one bulb and if that gets switched we will be lucky.

Why would you put christmas lights up when there is hardly any shops to go in. Also i dont think people are in the mood for celebrating christmas with everything whats going on i certainly not everthing will still be the same in 2025 gloom and dismal.

Couldn't have said it better myself Irene,it's ludicrous! Agree with others too about putting a more fitting tribute photo for Remembrance Day.x

I doubt that Cherry picker is anything to do with Christmas lights. Not before Remembrance Sunday, surely it’s far too early and completely inappropriate.

I agree with Old pensioner.
A day to remember the ‘doomed youth’-all those who gave their all for us.
“ Dulce Et Decorum Est’’

Old pensioner, I thought I had made comment previously on your valid point but I have not seen it pop up.
That said perhaps something appropriate will appear tomorrow, The 11th, actual Remembrance Day.

WN6, you may be right, but the person who uploaded the photo entitled it "Christmas Lights" and the description said "Christmas Lights going up in the town centre" so it can only be expected that people viewing it will assume that the subject of the photo is Christmas Lights being put into position and therefore they will make appropriate comments. If the cherry picker was there for cleaning or maintenance purposes, why were we told it was for Christmas Lights?

The old Lie : Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
An even bigger lie was issued by Tony Blair when telling us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction which it could launch within 45 minutes against our troops. Many good young men and women have lost their lives as a result of this particular lie, not to mention thousands of innocent Iraqi people. Remembrance Sunday is only the salutary and successful day it is due to the work of the British Legion.

Yes and many of the ‘doomed youth’ came from “‘the rough area of Scholes which hasn’t changed in decades”” …So much for the gratitude there..

I hoped my comment was taken the way I meant it to sound but I feel it didnt quite hit the mark.
Would have been better to have marked the day with a red poppy but as Colin says maybe tomorrow, the 11th. It was chilly this morning at our War Memorial very close to the North Sea....

Irene, maybe he was right or misunderstood what was going on.
One of life’s great mysteries

Helen , your fair and pleasant comments are ALWAYS welcome on photo-a-day and Album. When the bottom of the Makinson Arcade faced Woodcock Street and The Old Market Hall years ago, and even in recent years when it faced The Galleries Shopping Centre, some Christmas lights would have been welcome, but now the bottom of the arcade just faces a depressing wasteland where the 30-year-old Galleries have recently been torn down, and the area just looks a mess. Christmas lights would just look totally out of place, but you weren't to know that.

I asked the workman what he was up to, and he said he was putting up the Christmas lights.
Maybe the Chinese made lights are going to be plugged in at the bottom of Makinsons arcade, Maybe the new Wigan development company are paying for some new lights and paying for the electricity to run them from one of their generators.

Tomorrow one of my ex work mates will be cremated at 11-00 on the 11th of the 11th may he rest in peace .

PeterP, no words can convey our feelings on this. I am sure we will all think of you and his family at that time.

A very significant date PeterP. May your friend rest in eternal peace.

God Bless your friend and his family, Peter P.