Wigan Album

"The general aspect is unpleasing, it being a typical black country in the heart of the coal-mining area." so says the opening of the second paragraph of : 'Townships: Ince', A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 4 (1911) - source:http://www.british-history.ac.uk.
I'd beg to differ - this alp was in the Hemfield Road slagheap in Higher Ince in about 1957.