Wigan Album

Withington Lane goes from the end of Cale Lane, New Springs beyond the canal bridge to Hall Lane, Aspull near the Hindley boundary that is quite an affluent area near Hindley golf club.

Great picture.

I love the presence of the Swan neck cast iron street lamp with the SOX lantern. There were still one or two dotted around Aspull and New Springs until the 1990s.

I agree with CJAlan about the gas-lamp. I love them and you still see them occasionally. We always called them Gas-Lamps even if they were electric!

Walk here regularly,it has hardly changed at all.The detached house to the left of the row of houses is known as the 'old school house'.I only found out when clearing my late mum's house that my grandma had attended,it was known then as Withington Lane National School,and she had lived at 2 different houses in the row shown,sometimes known as 'Jolley's Row' and the area sometimes called 'Peggy Spout'

Withington Lane also goes from Wigan Road New Springs, Through Top Lock .

Is that a man peering over the fence just behind the lamp column, or is it just the way the wood is painted.

Withington Lane, Aspull. Goes from Wigan Road to Hall Lane, but it's private access.
A friend of mine bought that farm on the right of the picture, built a couple of houses and a large garage for his cars.

I knew a family who lived on Withington Lane name of Winstanley jean and christine any one know how they are now

Christine married Malc Horrocks sadly she passed away around 5years ago

Thanks John did nt exspect that

What an excellent photo, thank you Frank. It really brings back memories - cycling and walking around there, admiring the ponies, and going up the Wuchie and finding fossils in the shale. It's probably too overgrown now to find such things unless you start digging!

I remember fishing in cale lane terminus when I was a lad. I only ever caught one, a perch.

I kept my horses on the paddocks the one on the left was owned by mr groves who lived in the school house one the one on the left was fred croutons my gran and grandad lived in the top row and I was born there

were the fence on the right it as replaced a stone wall that went down to the barn on the right which we climbed to get to the sparrows nest in the mid fifties

The paddock Hilda Newton mentions is used by my relatives, I grew up on that lane also :) The best days were spent there.

I am trying to piece together some family history. My Nana Hilda Randall, nee Wellings, lived in this area. She lost her dad at 3 months old and was raised by the village, family all around this area, with a Granny either side of the road. I think Granny Wellings lived in the White House, and Granny Sumner across the road on the right of this picture. I'd love to hear if anyone knows anything, she passed away this year aged 96, and had only recently told me lots about her childhood.