Wigan Album
*UNKNOWN* - Can You Help?
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Photo: dk
Item #: 19657
I have no idea from where it came, who wrote it, nor, even, if this is the complete poem.
Perhaps someone would lay claim to it. It must be someone from Ince.
I have a copy of this poem. It was included in a photostat copy of an INCE DIRECTORY. I got about 25 years ago.
This appeared in a a thread on places that I put on in nov 2009!
"INCE poem by unknown author"
This is a lovely poem dk. At a guess, I would think this is the complete poem. It's a great pity that the author hasn't laid claim to it. He or she is obviously very talented.
I love it and can really identify with the words because I will always look back with pleasure when I think of my youth and later years in my Ince, my old homestead.
I remember Fossil's post on this poem and posted a bit of what I had found in a Past Forward. Here it is.
"Found this in Past Forward issue No 26 Aut/Winter 200.....
Dear Editor,
This fabulous locally patriotic poem about Inc has been
placed in various Wigan newspapers periodically, having
been forwarded by one, Mr. Stanley Turner, (Taylors Lane,
Ince) and by an Ambleside Lancer, Mr. Jack McCann, some
years ago. Mr. McCann believed that “The Beauty of Ince”
was written by an unnamed ‘Can Row’ gentleman author
and that the poem was printed on an Ince census cover
originally around 1940! My wife Elsie believes that people
paid 1s. years ago for a specially printed version of this
poem. As Jack Mccann told us in 1990, “The Beauty of
Ince” would be gratefully received as a Christmas present!
Kenneth Lucas
80 Park Road, Hindley
Wigan WN2 3RX"
Apparently there is a last verse missing. Hope this is a little help, DK.
i have got this poem in an old paper about wigan not sure if it gives the writers name name , i will have a look later, and there was something on here before about it think it was on comunicate .
can you tell me the address i can pick up the cd from of bellgreen lane photos
Wonder who Jane Green was? or was she fictional.My ancestors lived on Can Row.
Joseph, very informative, thanks. I don't frequent the message boards and didn't know that this was already known about. I thought that I had accidentally discovered something!
Dorothy, if you email me on the link I will reply with an address on Rose Bridge where you can pick up a disc.
I can remember my dad mentioning Jane Green when I was young and living on Manchester Road. She was quite an elderly lady then (in the 50's and early 60's ) and she lived opposite Moat House Street on Manchester Road,next to the garage.(I think her son had
Sorry, I didn't finish yesterday's email. Just to say the Jane Green that I remembered my dad mentioning, her son had what is now the garage on Manchester Road, opposite Moat House Street.
THERE IS A JANE GREENS IN MY FAMILY TREE THAT HAD DONKEYS ON INCE COMMON BUT IT SHOWS UP AS JANE STURGEON GREENS
Could this poem have been written by a Mr Lance Lucas, who used to own a temperance bar, on Ince Bar... Mr Lucas, who has sadly past away, used to attend a day centre where I was working, and he often brought his poems in for us to read.. This poem just reminded me of him for some reason..