Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Album Contents
Wigan Album
Wanted - Your Old Photographs
Old photographs wanted to build up an online collection. Anything to do with Wigan, including walking days, street parties, school class photographs, streets, etc.
Please help, everyone has a photo album - it would be good to build up a busy, online archive of old photos.
You can see the machine punching through the floor, and debris falling in the room below.
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Three floors left.
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Water was continually sprayed on the site to keep the dust down.
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Five floors to go.
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Seven floors remaining.
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Nine floors remaining.
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Telephoto lens shot of Debris falling from building.
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Telephoto lens shot of Panel being knocked off building.
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Worsley Mesnes was given the nickname of "Beirut" at the time, because it looked like it had been bombed.
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The excuse the council gave for demolishing the flats was that asbestos...
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Telephoto lens shot of one of the machines at work on one of the top floors.
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Top Floor, almost gone.
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Telephoto lens shot of top floor of block.
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Roof removed.
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Before demolition began, the building was gutted of all fittings, windows etc.
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Freddy eventually moved out after the demolition workers drove a crane...
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Demolition of Masefield House was delayed a couple of months, because of a tenant called Freddy...
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Masefield House pictured here, was the last of the high rise blocks to be demolished.
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Masefield House, with Thackeray House in the background, 1990.
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The maisonettes on Masefield drive, awaiting demolition.
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Another view of Thackeray place, during demolition.
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The maisonettes In Thackeray place being demolished the old fashioned way
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This is the same block of maisonettes, being demolished, which Paul Green has submitted a photo of, it was actually Blake close.
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New sloping roofs were built onto the shops, 1989.
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View from Farr close towards Boucher road, Masefield House is the high rise block in the background.
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A decision was made during the 1980s to demolish all the maisonettes...
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Entrance to the lifts, on the ground floor of Dryden House, 1989.
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Thackeray House, and to the left St Paul's church, and churchyard at Goose Green, 1987.
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View towards Warrington road, Stephens Way and Pemberton, 1987.
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