Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

The plan was prepared for some central Wigan pub property transactions and I think the Ship and the Royal were both part of that. I think the Royal plot is one of the old mediaeval burgess plots stretching down to the former course of the Douglas before it was diverted for the construction of the old Grand Central Station. I believe the plan is c. 1850. Woolworth's etc had the old Royal wall along Station Road and I could not believe it when the Ship front was preserved but not a small sample piece of the Royal wall inside the new development. It did not have the architectural interest of the Ship frontage but would have been of "group value" as in the English Heritage images of England approach.