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

Hello Kenny. You will know the presbytery attached to St. William's church, where the priest lived, (still does, I imagine)..... The large red-brick house on the left as you go past George Street? Well, behind the red-brick wall adjoining the presbytery,( which the walking day procession is just passing), you will see, if you pass it today, some trees growing, (one used to have a seat round it, but not sure if the seat is still there); It is hard to imagine now but there used to be a row of six houses there.....the ones you see in the photo, and I was born and brought up there. The address of the houses was still Ince Green Lane, even though the row stood back behind the wall. The row was demolished in 1971 and the new school was built, and the space where our houses stood is now part of the school grounds. Imagine it's 1964 and you have just moved to Pinewood Crescent, .....cross over from Pinewood Crescent to The Half-Moon houses, walk up Ince Green Lane, past Greenfield Avenue and Leaway, to the Anderton Arms, (Long-Neck) Pub. Now, stand with your back to the door of the Long-Neck and look across the road at the red-brick wall.....you would see the upstairs windows and the roofs of our row over the top of the wall. As I say, it's hard to imagine it now, but I hope that helps.