Wigan Album

This view is taken from the front bedroom window of No.16 around 1960. On the left of the picture, just above the rooftops, can be seen the long white building of, I think, what was GKN (Guest, Keen and Nettlefold). This was alongside the railway line to Southport (and is still there today I believe). I remember I could see a trail of smoke from the steam engine appear at this point and watch it all the way until it disappeared at Gathurst way over to the left. Marsh Green Estate was only a few years old at this time, we used to play in the houses when they were being built on the site of an old brickworks and quarry. Once the houses were completed I couldn't watch the smoke to Gathurst anymore.