Wigan Album

It must be before 1989. there's a photo of the cooling towers on the albumn just before they wer knocked down.

if you are sad enough to check out the google map street view youll see that the part of Brown Court you can see in the foregound has now been extended out

Think the old buildings were part of Dick Cropper's farm. He died in 1981, and I think they were demolished in the following years.

That red Lada is a T reg and I think they were about 1978

I'm guessing you live /lived at about number 37 ish?

Number 35!

I remember it well i live in fairfield st and we played round dicks farm you cud walk between endfeild st and ormkirk road i think we call it old lane.

Would this be opposite Brian Gaskels filling station that use to be in Enfield Street?

i live on millbeck cresent! we bought our house from plot... would love to see more pics from before the houses were built... born and bred in pemberton..

The opening to the farm and the old lane was faceing the gates of the ex bus work.

Heading towards Enfield St. The old lane ran between the farm on the left hand side, and the haulage area on the right hand side. The lane ran approximately where the edge of the wall is where the parked cars are on the right of the photo. The ground where the lorries were was soaked in oil, my mum could always tell by the state of our shoes if we'd been playing there.

Hi

I used to live on Ormskirk Road, and played on the back field near croppers, and remember the garages near there my dad had one he was coal man, my name before I married was Mears, from there we moved to Brentwood near Enfield Street Labour Club how things have changed

Hi Janet, does Mavis who had the slimming club at the top of Norley still live at the bottom of Brentwood.

Hi Carol - I remember the farm, we live at the top of Brentwood and I can also remember standing in our bedroom watching the cooling towers being demolished. I am showing my age now.

janet i was on the commite at the club with your dad .The club was my local but i live at kitt green did you live of foundy lane at one time.I lived in fairfeild st.I was kid all brentwood was all fields.

When I was growing up in Brindley St, there was no Brown Court, no Telephone exchange, there was a school, and a schools' kitchen. A few garages facing the houses on Brindley St. There was a chicken run behind the garages and then fields stretched down almost to Tunstall lane. I went to St. Cuthberts and used to run non-stop along a track across the fields, then down the backs (parallel to Ormskirk Road) from Carlisle St to cross Ormskirk Rd near the Tunstall Lane junction. The school run was on 2 legs, not four wheels.

Hi Barry

Yes I did live off Foundry Lane now live in Standish, I do remember you, my dad was treasurer and the other ones I remmber was Ernei from Kitt Green, Bod Downham who lived in Enfield Street, Brian Price, Bob jackson from Norley, good old days used to go to club quite a lot, had some good New Years Eve. How things have changed not been to that club for years and years.

Hi Dave,

Think Mavis herself has answered you did you live near Enfield Street.

Carol, must know you as I went to St Cuthberts at Halfway House, then on to St Cuthberts in Norley and then on to the convent. Did you live near a girl called Valerie ?

Cheers

There was a Valerie Hooton in my class, she lived on Ormskirk Rd. I was born in 1959. I was Greenall. There is a photo I posted in the schools section for St Cuthberts school - our class first communion 1966.

Hi Janet - I remember your mother and dad very well, lovely couple. There are still quite a lot of the old residence in Brentwood.

Thanks Mavis that was nice of you to say,when I drive past always look down and think of times gone by seems so long ago when I lived there
Carol I was orn in 1955 so a little older than you but good to hear from some one from happy child hood times.

Hi Mavis, hope you and your family are keeping well. Thanks for all those cups of tea when I was community police officer on Norley Hall.

Oh my goodness, I know this is an old thread but I lived in Brindley St up until 1979. I came across this while looking up when the terraced houses were originally built which I’m thinking was pre 1900 as my family purchased (no 19) back in 1909. I remember croppers, playing on back field, going newting in the brook that ran down the back of Enfield St. Remember ‘bommy’ Night and raiding every one else’s. What great fun havha

hi susan do you have any pictures before millbeck cresent was built?