Wigan Album
Lower Ince
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 34605
Such a shame...fly tipping comes to mind.
Makes you wonder what other crumbled historical stones are laid underneath the motorways - Roman or otherwise.
Not stones. Waste building material.
Believe there was a row of terraced houses in crow orchard then demolished
You're right Tom.....I remember Crow Orchard Terrace; a friend of mine had an Auntie who lived there.....she used to clean those two chapels in Ince Cemetery in the days when they were still in use.
I do remember the carved and dressed stones etc, that David mentions, they were at the times I ever saw them placed around the planted borders and grassed areas of the entrance and car park and they did look quite interesting, it was when I would take my wife's aunt to any doctors appointments she had at Claire House. I remember asking Roy Lamb where they'd come from and he thought they'd been dug up when the building was built, but David, you've put the record straight and told how they actually came to be there and where they came from, and it's a great pity and a loss that they've been taken.
There were some carved/ decorated stones around the entrance to Claire House - but they're not related to these piles of dressed stones which were placed over the road from Claire House in the 1990s - before any development in the area - and before Roy Lamb was around. They are massive sandstone blocks - from something like a railway bridge. Someone somewhere must know more about them.
Roy Lamb the Pharmacist, when but a lad, and before a pile of sandstone stones possibly from Greenough Street and Crompton Street bridges got dumped on land off Crow Orchard Terrace.
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