Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 20th February, 2025)

Brings back many memories

That does look like a cold & dreary day. I wonder why those who have decided on things in Wigan have never exploited the Roman connection with the town ....or on mining & weaving more than they have ....a chance missed in my view.

The smelley River Douglas.
Still looks an eyesore. I wonder how many shopping trolleys and bikes are in there.

That does look dreary just like today's weather. That all I can say about this one.

Not a nice view. But I suppose we need rivers even though it looks unkempt and stinks.

I prefer the River Douglas to the canal as it’s a ‘natural’ waterway. I agree with Helen regarding the Roman connection. They would have made much of the river and it would have been cleaner in those days. Perhaps it’s because of the river they made camp in Wigan. My introduction to it was on Sunday walks I was fascinated with it as a 4 year old …..it was very fast flowing and loud in those days. Not forgetting the little girl from the Georgian house on Millgate who drowned in the river.

The River doesn't look nice. I wonder if water companies dump sewage in there.
When water companies do get fines for dumping Sewage in rivers, it all comes out of our pockets.
My water bill each month has gone up to over £16 a month. Now £734.02 a year. Ridiculous amount..

You can blame Thatcher for that Paul .

Colin, you might have got some rave reviews if you had shown double yellow lines on the road, an old banger crossing the bridge and graffiti on the wall.
You’ll never, ever, please some folk.

It would look so much better when the sun is shining on it, trouble is I don't think much sunshine can get through those over grown trees and the tower blocks.

Only streams and brookes are natural.
The River Douglas has always had a reputation for being smelley and dirty.
There's been many attempts to clean it up.

Helen, I think the council have made efforts on both counts.
It been many years since I went to Trencherfield Mill but there was at the time some fascinating thing to see connected with the cotton industry, including the huge steam powered engine that powered the looms.
At the Millgate entrance to the Grand Arcade there is the recreation of the underfloor heating system to the Roman Bath House and a very informative information board detailing the extent of the old Coccium garrison. There are also many Roman artefacts on display in The Museum on Library Street.

I cannot be held accountable for the grey skies, of leaves on the trees, and tower block it is winter and it is what it is, Wigan.
A few weeks back I saw three people from the Environment Agency trawling the river near Greenough Street bridge testing the water quality, it is not smelly and the rating is Good to Moderate only deteriorating to Bad in the tidal stretch as it enters the River Ribble.
The only pollution I can envisage is that from run of rain water from roads with rubber from tyres and patrol of diesel spilling from vehicles.
The worst pollution is from slurry and pesticides from those lovely rural farmland scenes everyone so loves.

It must be lovely to live on the banks of a river when it gets past the built up polluted areas of Wigan, I can see on the map that the river Douglas meanders its way out to sea via Crooke, Shevington, Appley Bridge and Parbold villages.

There are many towns and villages close to the River Douglas. Wigan is only one of them. Also, the River Douglas doesn't go out to sea.

I quite enjoy seeing the River Douglas alongside of the Leeds Liverpool Canal and never noticed anything bad about it,just looked where it starts and finishes,starting at Winter Hill and finishes at Tarletan running into the River Ribble 35 miles long.

It might be lovely Chris, but with this so called climate change, your property has a massive threat of flooding.
Some insurance companies are refusing to insure some properties.

"Is there 'owt i'theer"?

Chris, try living near Hoscar Sewage Works, it’s very pleasant there on a hot summers day.

There are plenty fish in there,WDAA have the fishing rights on a couple stretches

I came here on a boat crossing after being captured by Romans in North Africa.
All this land was a bit of a winding swampy river area with oak and beech trees on each side, damn pain chopping it all down so that the Romans could have a bath.
If you think locals are bad now, try fending off one of them there Brigante yobo’s when your in a loin cloth and bare feet.
Any roads up, worked well in the end, married a local wench and now have vape shop in Wallgate.

Dave Whelan paid to have a load of trout put in Appley Bridge

A load of trout put in Appley Bridge? Literally? Trout usually live in water.

That sluice gate used to be looked after by someone from the water board, all of us kids in Scholes called him Paddy Lock.

Servus Romanus, do the terms of your manumission allow you to have a vape shop?