Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 9th February, 2025)

Looks very nice to me.

Yes, looks nice to me too. More ' Wigan '

If they filled in all those tall arched openings with stained glass windows, put some clocks on the tower it would look like a cathedral when lit up a night.

The outside looks quite nice but I have never liked multi-storey car parks of any type and really try to avoid them.

More thought given to the design of a multi car park than to the ugly concrete blocks dotted about. It’s probably an empty vessel these days. No shops no cars.

Whats the use for it there isnt no shops left to do shopping and making the use of it!

I have scrutinised this photo to the best of my eyesight and I am pleased to confirm that there are no squirrels or graffiti!

At least the large, leaning trees on the empty Water St site are thriving, and the flowery language is lovely.

Haa but are you sure Colin. Are you really sure? Them pesky squirrels are tricky little devils. I’ll bet there are one or two of the little rascals hiding in there somewhere, and did you check inside for graffiti?
Jed Clampet and his shotgun would take care of them in no time and Granny Clampet would have them stewing in the pot and that’s only the hooligan graffiti artists.

A much better building design than Lego Land square buildings seen around Wigan with no character.

FYI …. Water street car park is currently being used by staff working at the RAEI ( in addition to any available street parking in Coppull lane ) as the Freckleton street site is now permanently closed awaiting development into a multi-storey car parking facility for the infirmary .
Oh joy !!!

I imagine the flowery language comes in handy selling to the uninitiated first time buyer when houses are described as ‘bijou’. (But no room for a pet cat!)

The outside looks quite nice but I have never liked multi-storey car parks of any type and really try to avoid them.

Colin, they live happily in the roof space with the pox virus that kills red uns. DTease is right. Jed Clampet would soon wipe the smile off the face o them pesky gay squirrels.

Pw spot on, you are more likely to get your car damaged in these car parks, especially bumper bar scuffs because multistorey car parks are so tight.
I prefer to park up in a safe place and walk.

It is a whole lot better from what was there before it. That area should have been named 'Death Valley' with a slaughter house once being on the site, and another all but a stones throw away, and both where many, many animals were cruelly treated before their brutish deaths, their fearful bellows and squeals being indicative to that. There was also the distinctive smell that was always around there, not just from the slaughterhouses, but from the dung heaps and also the fellmongers further up Water Street whom treated the hides and the fleeces.

This excerpt from the book The Slaughterhouse in Georgian Britain, tells a good description of the slaughterhouses of the time. Be warned though, that it is gruesome reading.
https://about1816.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/the-regency-slaughterhouse/

PeterP, millions of drivers use multi-story car parks every day with no problems; maybe you need to learn how to steer your car better.