Wigan Album
Crooke and Standish Lower Ground
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Photo: Paul Dowd
Item #: 33212
Whereabouts is Hawthorn Terrace Paul?
Does it still exist?
Thanks.
Yes, the houses are all still there. They were originally known as 'Woosnam's Houses' after the first family to live there. There is a plaque saying 'T&G W 1881' and Thomas Woosnam was living in one of them in 1891.
Thanks for the reply Paul.
But I just cant place where they are?
Is it off Wigan Lower Road as this looks like a main road?
It is wigan lower road close to the bus stop near the junction with woodrush road
The front room of one of those houses was used as a surgery for Drs Marwick, Ormsby and Surman. People used to queue there each day after their Shevington surgery ended.
I think the doctors nurse was called Margret Moss, i think i saw somewhere a journal that was maybe written by Margret as she did her rounds around Crooke & SLG
We live in Hawthorn Terrace. I was born 3rd house up from the bottom of the "pit houses " at the bottom of Wigan Lower Road. Our house is opposite the old CE School which I attended back in 1975. I moved around a lot but somehow came back.