Wigan Album
NCB, Top Lock, Kirkless, New Springs
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Photo: josie pennington nee beckett
Item #: 12940
hello gareth, i dont remember where the inn was i have heard my mam mention it i will try to find out.
The Furnace Inn was on the same side of the canal, not the opposite side, but nearer to Belle Green Lane. It stood on the corner of Kikless Lane and one of the streets at the top of Belle Green Lane, either Lisbon Street or York Street. It was kept at one time by Phil Nelson who kept fantail pigeons in a pigeon cote.
Have found it in the Ince Directory for 1925 under "Stuff".....the streets are listed alphabetically' and the Furnace Inn is shown to be on Kirkless Lane.
well done irene,i wonder where it actually stood?
I seem to remember my grandfather talking about "Top Place"he seemed to indicate that it had been in Aspull behind the present Aspull Civic Centre, during the war we made an air raid shelter in one of the old coke ovens.
My grandad pierce worked as a timekeeper he died in 1943 walking to work along the canal bank from springs bridge in the fog and fell in the canal and drowned I remember it well , even when I was only five years of age