Area nick-names

Listening to my kids talking about various Wigan areas , I had to laugh.I,d heard of Platt Waz , Kitt Bonk and Pem ,but how about Scrorley Hall , Worstof Hall and Marsh Vegas!!!!! Anyone got any more?

Scrubshaw Cross?

hire rinse

aye Platt Vegas cos it has the Golden arches of MacDonalds there now!

Clinker Valley ( spring view )

PLATT BRIDGE WAS ALWAYS ...GIRO CITY

worsley bronx

If Platt Bridge is Platt Waz, shouldn't Rose Bridge be Rose Waz ?

When I was a child In Abram,I use to visit my relatives In Wallgate,at the time I lived
In May Ave,at that time the houses there reasonably new.They use to say here comes the kid from Little Hollywood .
I do,nt think they would say that today.

wmp worsley mesnes posse ha ha marsh bonk

use to be on the cb some yrs ago
w/hall....little chicago.
marsh green...swamp city.
norley hall...cardboard city.
whelley...boot city.
plat waz..giro city.

cant remember them all but there are loads more.

worst of all = worsley hall

slutchy cross,skows,ar*epull,dole city (platt bridge)

Goose Gonk (Goose Green)

We over here have area nick names where I grew up was Renssee.

I have always know Worsley Hall as Little Beirut

If Platt Bridge is known as Platt Wazz, does that make the people who live there Platt Wazzocks?

appley bridge (BONE HOLE) because of glue works

brit boy.. little beirut was sherwood drive

Stubshaw Cross stubshi

rose hill at bryn = rag brew,
warrington rd, near sainsburys =cocks lump
anybody know 'updarn o green road'

Why is Haydock known as Yick? Where is Union Bridge?

marsh green,kitt green , norley hall and worsley hall was collectively known as the leper colony when i worked for the council 16yrs ago

tuddy, Union Bridge is between Newtown and Pemberton.

To Middleton & Woods Taxi drivers, 40+ years ago, Swinley was known a "Debt Creek".. ie: "Put it on my account driver".
Then the order was, on your way past xxxx's house, see if you can get any money off 'em..

whelley, more like boot hill.

nowt wrong wi Whelley elmos

a lot of people at rest in boot hill utt,
so can't be much wrong wi boot hill.

sted by: tonker (6948)
Scrubshaw Cross?


Angry Ashton?

Cheers art, I wonder if there was any kind of bridge there?

The bridge (before my time) was where the car valeting place is now, which used to be Plumbtons Filling Station. My sis-in-law (deceased) worked on the petrol station in the 50's & also lived across the road in Plumbtons flats..

scholes, "sunshine city" the envy of all.

tha wants some warm milk elmos,but my twin brother lives in McCormick Drive,so can't call Scholes

am glad one of you showing some good sense
utt he must be the older twin.

Billinge Road / Newtown area = NAPPY VALLEY

George Harris a Platt bridge based french polisher visited Texas a few years ago. He was befriended by a wealthy rancher. One evening over dinner the Texan asked George - 'Gee George what part of good old litle England are you from.' George replied - 'Platt Bridge' 'What state is that in George' asked the rancher. 'Bleedin awful, you want to see it' said George.

thats a good one gaffer,was thinking the same
about whelley but i remembered my grandson
lives up there and my daughter just bought a
house up there also.so i better be quiet

two places associated with lamberhead green
POW WILLOCK & SH-T NOOK one of them was opposite jem lowes pub not sure about the other one.

Pow Hillock, Orrell.

Peolple from Whelley as my mate used to say were "just Scholesers with a mortgage"?

beech hill was allways called "cardboard city",
i lived there for a while.only the best places
for me.

Landgate used to be called cat town when i was on cb radio. and wentworth rd was called the runway.

We have the same over here.
Rensselaer falls is the falls or rensse

Odgensburg- The burg

Gouverneur- Governmenure because of alot of farms

chimp wasnt pow hillock the small park where the old stocks used to be ?spent my early teens there and the youth club

one family i know did keep coal in the bath,
more than one family lived with bare floorboards,
that was in beech hill.

scholes tall flats new york

ashton has now been nick named ash vegas dunno why tho

A mate of mine from Atherton used to refer to folks from Hindley as, "Hindley Gawpers."

tomplum i know were up down o green road is lol....

For some reason Goose Green is also known as Goose Lomm!

elmos you're incorrect,i'm thowdest by 20 minutes,I went to Wigan Grammar and our kid went to Whelley sec mod,although he did pass his 14 plus and end up at W.G.S

i can't win a cast,if i won a fiver i'd lose a tenner!!
at least your twin had the sense to pick scowse.

ringsendrose

union bridge was indeed a bridge that ran from norley colliery out under the wigan to pemb station line at robin park the bridge under the line is at top end of park ran to goose green but ive forgotten where to after. could be lancashire union railway co,hence union bridge.

I think it was London & North Western Railway.

when was the union bridge demolished a need fot no to settle an argument

Has anybody been to Golborne, it’s just north of Kensington, West London, at the top of Portobello Road. The property’s a lot more expensive than round here.

hi kenee welcome to wigan world,i'v only been as far as
golborne near wigan.it's dead cheap there i will have to
get a passport

One of my daughters ex boyfriends came from Worsley Mesnes.

I used to call him 'The Worsley Menace'!

Some time ago there was a photo of the bridge at union bridge. It was on wiganworld

Marsh Green was called the Ponderosa (TV serial Dallas in the 60's) by the Taxi Drivers

Heres afew
Warrington rd Ashton was always known as Lodge Lone,
Golborne pit dirt rook was always called The Bonk
Who could forget squeeze bally entry.A-IN-M
Steam Engine off Old Rd A-IN-M
Skitters , used go fishing there as a lad A-IN-M.

The old ones where I live in Much Hoole refer to it as Mucky Hole.

cement city-parr
shire county stub(shire)shaw

I have heard Platt Bridge called Platt Wazz but i dont know why.

NEWTOWN WAS AND STILL IS CALLED SADDLE ANY ONE KNOW WHY

Some folk used to call the top end of Durham St The Bronx,with all the undesirables they put them flats

The junction (Warrington/Ormskirk roads)was called the Saddle, after a pub of the same name

Yick is near Sintellens

No, Bentlegs, Yick is IN Sintellins. And so is Garswood!

ashton in makebelieve

When we were young, the area of Newtown was called Robin and Alexandra Park was called Robin Park but I don't know why.

Ashton-in-makerfield= Ash vagas

There was a large gap between the houses in spring street which they called the piggy brew don't know why, but they used to have a bonfire on there, it led up to silver street.

Gary1964-Platt waz predates giro city ,that name was used when Ince council built the estate behaind the glass works and filled it with the unemployed and unemployable.
People from Haydock being called yickers -I have heard this story but can't vouch for its truth.
In the days of coal barges on th canal the method of navigating through narrow stretches and bridges was (supposedly) known as yicking.Haydock had large stretches of such canal and therefore the name Yicker. If this is incorrect I'm sure Tonker will put the record straight.

Tonkers night out..

laticat, could have been where the locals played "Piggy"

Hi art have no idea why it was called the piggy brew but there used to be a slaughter house in silver street, would be interesting to find out.

That's, more or less, as I have it Vera!

billface coz of a pub called the saddle

Make thi mind up tonker , Last week Garswood was in Ashton.

Bentlegs, Garswood IS in Ashton in Makerfield. It also IS in St.Helens.