Wigan Album

It's what's in the picture, not what the picture was taken for, that often matters. The subject of the photo is Cliff and Dorothy Harrson, who lived in flat 7 on Cemetery Road, Lower Ince. He worked at Moss Pit, and was a Councillor for Ince Urband District Council. She was the daughter of John Gaskell, Shed Master at Springs Branch in the 1940s. Behind them can be seen 'The Barracks' on Morris Street, where crews from long-distance trains stopped overnight when their working hours expired, or when they had been sent to take over a train at Wigan.