Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 15th July, 2025)

I have passed this pub many times in the car but never wondered until seeing this photo why it is called The Tippings Arms. Any idea, Brian, or photo-a-day regulars, please?

The new A49 is a fantastic road, well done Wigan council.
Tipping Arms named after Mr Tipping mill owner who lived at Bold hall.
Next pub up the roads is named the Bold hotel.

It opened in 1820 and was named a after a Mr Tipping a local Mill and land owner who lived in Bold Hall.
Nice clear picture Brian of the pub and Poolstock Lane with the Westwood Way flyover in the background.

I think the road to the right is Rushdean which leads down to Scotsman’s Flash Activity Centre.

i think wigan must have more bridges than almost anywhere else

I’m led to believe Wigan is in a ‘dip’ or ‘valley’ perhaps that’s why there are so many bridges. Nice to see the pub is open..at least there’s a window open. It looks clean and very tidy there. I don’t recognise the area these days. Nice to see the areas I used to know many years ago. Different perspectives and all that.

I remember the old Pemberton loop line which ran past there in the very same spot. The line closed around 1969 and the line and the bridge lifted in 1971.
The line ran from Hindley to the top end of Little Lane Goose Green/Pemberton.
Freddie Wigan had more railway lines than anywhere else, especially Ince.
Thanks Brian.

Well bridges are there for a purpose, they are built to carry trains lines over train lines, roads over roads, roads over canals and rivers, trains over canals and rivers. Bridges over Motorways.
I could go on and on, but bridges serve a very important place on our everyday commuting. I hope this answers your question Freddie
Thank you Brian, very interesting.

For those of you that don't know the area, the left turn after the Tippings Arms is Worsley Mesnes estate, then on to Goose Green.

Both Mick and Colin have given the same explanation for the name. This is probably correct but it does not equate with the grammar. It would not be prefaced by “The” if named after a Mr Tipping. It would be either Tipping Arms or Tipping’s Arms with use of the possessory apostrophe. An alternative explanation is that it may have been on or near coal tippings from the Worsley Mesnes colliery which is only about 100 metres away. Whatever the reason for the name the Victorians had a very high regard for both spelling and grammar and I would be very surprised if it had had an incorrect name for more than 200 years.

Yes, Colin, the road on the right is Rushdene. I wouldn't like to live there because it's used as an escape route for those being chased by the Police.

Irene, when you are being chauffeured around Wigan by your husband in your Dorothy, have you ever thought of asking your husband these questions you ask on here? I'm sure, given that he's a Wiganer, he would know the answer.

Owe Reekie, you are quite correct in what you say, I studied English when I was at Cambridge University.

Mick,, we don't always travel in Dorothy and.we aren't from that part of Wigan so can't be expected to know the history behind the pub or its name..
We are both Wiganers, one from Ince, one from Hindley, neither from Poolstock. I wouldn't expect people from Poolstock to know the history of Ince or Hindley pubs.

Great photo Brian. Mind you I think I've lost my bearings as well as my marbles. I seem to think that coming from wigan the Tippings was on the right hand side, so that would mean that this photo is looking towards the church at Poolstock. I'm sure someone will sort me out on this.

Pity the man of multiple names wasn’t taught the difference between their, there and they’re.
Must be at a loose end today with all the comments.

How the mighty are fallen, from Cambridge to dragging the canal for old, rusty shopping trolleys.
If you went to University Mick you must have been delivering the milk.

Two pints and half a dozen eggs today milky.

My granddaughter is going to Cambridge in September, Mick. I'll get her to look up your name in the Alumni. I had no idea you'd studied there.

Unfortunately the Tippings Arms pub closed on the 24th February 2025.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057038006799#

However, if you would like to reopen it, it is available to rent.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160100942#/?channel=COM_LET

Derek you are correct the car in the photo is heading into Wigan

Owd Recky. It's The Tippings Arms.
Derek Platt, Brian is facing Poolstock lane and behind him is Marus Bridge.

Derek, yes, the photo is looking towards the church.
Irene, I'm not from that area as well, but I'm a Wiganer who's lived half of his life overseas, but I still know a bit of its history and where places are.

Irene, it wasnt me who went to Cambridge.

We're was Worsley menes colliery I don't remember a pit off pool stock lane

I'm not from that area too. But you could blindfold me , drop me off anywhere in Wigan and District and I'll know where I am.
I think if you can drive, over the years it
helps to get your bearings.

So, Mick, let's get this straight.....the person called Mick, who said at two minutes past four this afternoon, that he went to Cambridge University, now says he didn't. Well, my granddaughter isn't going either. That is, she IS going to University in September but not Cambridge, so she won't be looking you up in the Alumni after all. Touché, Pinocchio. Would you like me to scratch your nose for you?...I can reach it better than you.