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Scotsman's Culvert
Scotsman's Culvert
Photo: dk
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Item #: 5074
c1953 on a very nice evening. The pike must have been active in the moving water and Scotsman's is as calm as a mill pond.
There's a couple of good, smart short back and sides haircuts in the crowd.
Wigan Alps is in the background and there is a black and white picture just from here, without fishermen, somewhere else on wiganworld.

Comment by: sandra webster on 14th February 2008 at 02:56

I do believe the Wigan Alps you refer to are the 3 sisters ? How the scenery has changed we spent many any happy hour playing over the fields in the late 50's and 60's looking for tadpoles or cockies blackberrying ect

Comment by: dave marsh on 14th February 2008 at 12:53

The culvert once had metal bars across the top where you could drop a handline and pull a few perch.I can remember there being fresh water crayfish in the stream at the far end.We used to wander over the loose shale searching for fossils and we always found some interestin ones.It was one hell of a playground albeit a bit dull and dreary.

Comment by: dk on 14th February 2008 at 22:29

Thanks very much for your comments. I have to admit that this is on the edge of my radar which follows the canal to Dover Lock. I have read about the Wigan Alps being known as the Three Sisters and thence when they were removed the Three Sisters park was formed but sadly I have never climbed in these peaks. I have dragged my fishing tackle up and down this canal a few times although the Flash is not one of my best ponds. My brother and his mate once had a bit of a mania for fishing the culvert and returned one evening to meet me three locks up from Rose Bridge. They had a bucket of giant sticklebacks, all about three and half inches long. Yeah. Yeah. Honest! The biggest cockies we'd ever seen. We let them go in the locks.

Comment by: jim holding on 1st March 2008 at 20:49

memories,,,,,well remember fishing here,,you were lucky to get a place near it,,there used to be more falling out following tangles than enough,,as for Wigan Alps,,we used to refer to them as "Sabrina,s",,,,any one who fished and lived around that time will know the nom de plume nad make the connection??????

Comment by: Joe crawford on 17th October 2013 at 17:53

We used to wade out in the culvert with our tackle and shuffle our feet on the bottom it coloured the water and you could not throw in fast enough there was fish everywhere late1930s and 40s great days

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