Wigan Album

Another brilliant photograph... you can see why Templeton Road was called the Tramlines. Platt Bridge park would be over to the right.

I remember Platt Bridge Park, Dennis. I lived in Ince but had a friend who lived in the room/upstairs rooms behind Webster's Butchers. We had a School Magazine at Hindley Greammar, and a Platt Bridge lad submitted a poem about Platt Bridge park....."She was lovely as the lilac trees that border Platt Bridge Park.....the place where courting couples go when it's getting dark"; why on earth has that stayed in my memory all these years?!

It is odd, for a time we lived in a flat above Fosters Butchers, next door to the TSB Bank butchers. In fact, you can almost see that flat in the above photograph. You can just see up the backs of the shops on Liverpool Road.

Oh the joys of Platt Bridge Park, spent many an hour there although we lived in Spring View, I suppose it was our nearest park. All that concrete under the swings, would be a heath and safety nightmare now.

Hello Irene, I remember Platt Bridge park well. I was born in P.Bridge in 1939. I also went to Hindley&Abram Grammar School. Good old Platt Bridge.