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Tanyard Fields was a dirt road from Atherton Road and was replaced by Borsdane Avenue. The tanyard was about 200 yards up from Atherton Road on the right hand side. It was a slaughter-house for horses, after killing, they were boiled and the flesh sold, the bones went to glue factories and when in production the smell was terrible. Up to the late 40's there were still a lot of horses around. After the first World War there was a Wigan Jubilee Flying Club and they purchased an old Avro 504 biplane, this was kept in a large shed behind Lucas's farm, where the petrol station is now. They put it across the road in the Tanyard Fields one day to try and fly it but it would not start, it never actually flew again and gradually vanished because of vandalism. So the Tanyard Fields could have been the name for Hindley AIRPORT. Wooddagger Farm was just of George Street, you turned up the side of All Saint's churchyard and the farm was about 40 yards from George Street. E.T.