Wigan Album

Thank goodness! He should be on P a D surely. Maybe he’s going South. I will miss him anyway seeing him from the bus.

That made me laugh, Ozy, about him going to the Gents' Outfitters! He should have gone to Reg Sutton's in Scholes and he could have paid on "easy terms" when "t'club-mon" came round for the money every week! I believe this statue has been moved from its site by the council because someone complained it was obscene. It is a statue of a human body, the like of which can be seen in museums and art galleries the world over. It is those LIVE lads and men who walk the streets every day, selling drugs, stealing cars and using foul language every other word who need carting off, not a statue! (Before anyone complains, I am certainly not tarring all lads, (or girls for that matter), with the same brush, but we have all felt intimidated and disgusted at times in the streets and on public transport by the obnoxious behaviour of some people). The council had no problem in moving "Adonis" on because he went quietly and couldn't put up a fight.

It’s a shame Irene, how the mighty has fallen! He’d have a job finding a shop selling underpants never mind a suit in Wigan these days.

That statue was in Bryn for donkey's years. A few months in Ince and it's bye bye.

The driver is even giving you a thumbs up Ozy, do you know him?

This statue was in the news, apparently someone complained to Wigan council and they deemed it needed planning permission and refused it, so it had to go, an excellent bit of countrywide advertising for the business though.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20087439/council-order-gold-naked-statue-taken-down/

I didn't think it was tacky when I saw the statue at Bryn, and even though going past it at Clarington Brook a few times I never noticed it, though looking at the photo it is looking rather weather worn and looks dull towards what it was.

Its a LOAD of nonsense. Soon be bonfire night and should be on it.

' All he had lov'd, and moulded into thought,
From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound,
Lamented Adonais. Morning sought
Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound,
Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground,
Dimm'd the aëreal eyes that kindle day;
Afar the melancholy thunder moan'd,
Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay,
And the wild winds flew round , sobbing in their dismay ' .

Shelley

That’s so profound Poet - lamenting for the Golden Boy that he has come to this. It’s so sad…..