Wigan Album

Evocative picture Norman! I took a shot from the same viewpoint back in March. Location is by Coop Street, Scholes - the houses seen in your picture have been replaced with Sullivan Way and Oxford Court.

This is the top of Longshoot looking towards Wigan. Further up Scholes than Lime Street. The streets at the bottom of the hill are Regent and Oxford Street; leading down to Greenough Street. Behind the 'castle' wall was the 'Sandpit'. Remeber playing there as a child; even remember 'Look North' filming three of us, just before they pulled the terraced houses down. Would love to see that footage, about 1966.

I think it is more towards the longshoot area, we used to live in Mint Court and moved away in about 1963.
Happy Days.

this is longshoot area we used to call it the bowling green used to play there as a child

To-day you would be standing between bowling green entrance and Longshoot Health Centre.

Another cracker Norman.

It is definately the 1050's. The houses to the right, peeping over the wall had been demolished when I was a child. I remember playing on their foudation's in the 1960s. Also, to the right on the skyline, is a crane. Could this have been the building of the technical college?

Looks like the top of Birky Bank to me...

this is the top off longshoot looking down towards what is now sullivan way .what memories this has brought back

Of course I'm too young to remember this lol !!!
I can see the back of the ABC cinema and also the dome on the Queens Hall. It does evoke a time gone by and memories of being taken to Arthur Siney's Barbers Shop on Scholes by my dad.

Hi Norman, I would love to get a print of this photo, would this be possible? Thank you.

The kid is near the the top of what was Primrose Hill/Primrose cottages. Andrew if you right click on the photo you can then save it your pictures folder. H.