Wigan Album
Goose Green
10 Comments
Photo: Jonathan Rigby
Item #: 10298
Jonathan. Could this have been taken behind St Paul's rectory - it looks very much like that area?
This was taken from where Stephens Way industrial estate is now, beside the railway line
If you come from the direction of the town centre, under the railway bridge, you can see an area of grass where some terraved houses used to be, The two sets of terraced houses you see on the photo are the ones on the photo. My gran used to live in one of the houses that have been demolished, and their allotments where behind the houses.
If I remember right there was a quarry filled with water just behind the bushes in the picture......owd Robiner!
We used to go to the quarry to catch newts. We knew it as the "clay hole"I put my newts in a jar with tadpoles in it then wondered where the tadpoles had gone. No doubt they fed the newts!
Confused! Are these houses still up? If they are the ones where the grass is on right hand side, under skew bridge, heading to Goose Greeen. There seems a lot of land between houses and railway embankment.
I think Jonathan is mistaken, these houses are still there.
The ones that were demolised were smaller than these, there is a photo of one of Fred Fosters relations in front of one of them somewhere on the people section. I don't remember the name, but the house is number 141 I think
I'm not mistaken - I probably didnt make myself clear ! The houses are still there. The patch of ground past skew bridge is where my gran used to live (I've put a picture up of Warrington Road on this section where she lived). The two sets of terraced houses on the picture are past that bit of grass land, probably just past the junction with Tyrer Avenue. Going by the number on my Grans house which was 163, these houses are in the 170s and upwards.
Do you mean the houses to the left when your coming from Wigan? If your stopped at the traffic lights and Goose Green Labour Club is to your right, the old vicarage(60's building) was just past the houses you mean on your left. There is only a wall now.
Was this not the land behind there were we used to have the bonfire nights and the fair in the 1970's
No. As you leave Wigan and go under the railway bridge (skew bridge), these houses were immediatly on the right hand side.
Behind the photographer would have been the railway embankment and then Alexandra park.