Wigan Photo Album. Page 2 Colour Photos and comments by Jim Farrell |
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The Wiend. Running off the Market Place, is one of Wigan's oldest thoroughfares. Here in the 1800s Mr. Beecham, (of Beecams Pills fame), first set up in business, before setting up as a chemist in Wallgate, he then moved to St Helens, where Beecham's grew to be the world famous company it is today. This picture is from the late 70s |
Standish Church, Cross and Stocks. Associated with Myles Standish, military commander for the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed to America on the Mayflower. Ironically, a covered well which stood nearby was demolished accidentally by a US Army truck in the 1940s. At nearby Wrightington Hospital, Sir John Charnley invented the artificial hip in 1962,to the benefit of thousands of arthritis sufferers worldwide. |
The Road to Wigan Pier? Could be, as this cobbled way leads to the famous pier, years ago it's cobbles rang to the the sound of mill girls clogs, as they made their way along it to the Trencherfield and Eckersley cotton mills. |
Traditional Victorian back yards, off Queen Street, Billinge Road, Pemberton. Outside toilets and wash houses were then the order of the day. The top of the building above the clothes line, is the old Ross Works, known locally as the Slipper Works. Early 80s Pic. |
Now long gone, this huge slag heap with it's striking resemblence to Australia's Ayres Rock, was once the legacy of the huge Blundells coal mining complex at Highfield. Now no coal mines survive in the Wigan area.The area is now pleasantly rural. The small picture shows Highfield Church tower across this reclaimed land. Previously it was hidden. The figure in the picture below gives some idea of the scale Taken late 70s |
The Whitesmiths public house, at the junction of Standishgate and Powel Street. before the present road system was put in. The entry to the LH side of it, is Brick Kiln Lane. Picture late 70s |
Two pals enjoy some fishing on the canal at Higher Ince. The cooling towers in the distance date this picture, as they were demolished over 10 years ago. |
Canal lock by Trencherfield Mill, Wigan Pier |
Early morning snowfall at Kitt Green. |
A 1970's picture of the Queen's Hall in Market Street, with market stalls in front of the old Market Hall. Here in Market Street Mr Lever set up in buisness in the 1800's, as a grocer, it later grew into the multi million Lever Bros. soap empire. |
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Trencherfield Mill from the canal side. This became. Mackintosh's Wallgate factory in the BBC TV series, Clocking Off. |
After a Spring snowshower. Jubilee Park. Ashton in Makerfield. |
May Mill, Highfield, Wigan. Just before it's demolition, the slope on the left is the Blundell slag heap. |
Trencherfield Mill and Wigan Pier area silhouetted against the Western sky. |
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....Is it a meteorite?...Or is it molten lava from a newly erupted volcano?...No!..it's... Uncle Joe's Mintball toffee, cooling on a water filled cooling table, the finest American peppermint oil is then added to the mixture, and is absorbed into the toffee, which is then pulled into a long serpentine shape, and fed through machine rollers that stamp out the familiar mintballs. There is enough toffee here to make about 40lbs of mintballs. |
Highfield Church |
July 02 Shumacher's Ferrari comes to Wigan, On display at local superstore Asda for two days, local kids get the chance to have their photographs taken with it. |
