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Adam bridge, Newtown. The bus is heading into Wigan.

Good shout, but it's actually heading in the opposite direction, towards Newtown.

Whoops! Sorry your right! Too much cider last night ;-)

Ask the lady who is peeping over the wall

I don't think so - the bus is heading back to Wigan. There used to be a few houses and a chip shop on the other side of the road. The shops on this side still stand

Isn't the shop with the advertisment boards for Woodbines the one locals called 'Dirty Dicks', before that too was demolished, the first shop in the row now being Finches.

Yes, you're right. The shop with the Woodbine adverts has now been demolished. The next shop was Finches. The shop on the other side with the Ovaltine advert was a chipshop and there was a street at the side of it( I've forgotten the name of the street. At the other side of the street, leading up to St Edwards Church was a "arc" of houses around the bend opposite Soho Street.

Hello Peter, I seem to recall the street across the road was Green St, Norman Green who had a drink in the Queen's Head lived on that street. Now Adam Bridge and Saddle junction can be a nightmare to drive through somedays. One thing has changed for the better though, the river, I'm thankful you cannot preserve the smells like you can with photos, phew!

I love the pic,the shop where the poster is doris's chippy,best chippy in wigan in it's day(chips with pea wet) she lived next door,with her husband harold and son ,behind the bus was garages and pens(chickens)the st down the side was trentham st.

Viv that chippy was the best in Wigan! My grandad lived two houses to the other side of that bridge and I used to go to that little chippy at dinner time from Tommy Moore. That was back in the mid to late 60's when I was nobbut a lad.

If you look to the top left hand side of the picture, you can see top of the Liverpool to Wigan railway embankment; this confirms that the bus is indeed travelling towards Wigan...

I used to live next door but one to Doris's chippy on the corner of Ormskirk Rd and Trentham Street, as previous comments say it was the best in Wigan.

The street opposite was Bywater Street.My auntie lived there.

If you look at the corner shop with the woodbine advert on it, between the shop and the wall there was an entry that went down the side of the river. After a few yards you came to a row of terraced houses called Douglas Terace, my grandparents lived in the first one. Their surname was Shields (Billy and Johanna) they lived there from about 1920 untill the houses were demolished to make way for Asda