Wigan Album
Wiend
14 Comments
Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 21229
Ron,I don't recognise the building on the right,I may be wrong,but I don't think this is the Wiend,I seem to be know the building but can't place it.
Marguerite and Ron thank you for this series of photograghs,they are so interesting.
Tom, yes it is definitely the Wiend there are other photographs on the site taken from more or less the same spot.
If I remember rightly Ezra Sidebotham's (Printers) was on the left just out of shot.
The cobbled street going off is The Wiend. The bits the girls are walking along is Millgate.
I think Clarington Forge had a depot one time in the yard under the arch.I worked in both of Tom Whalley's shops in The Wiend and Millgate.Wonderful bits of history under both buildings but no one ever seemed interested.
Ron,thank you ,it's strange how your memory plays tricks,I used to cut through the Wiend every day for nearly 8yrs,I mst have been half asleep.
Thanks again Tom.
DONT LOOK LIKE THE WIEND TO ME EITHER TOM
The same photograph is on the site under MILLGATE
Definitely the Weind at its junction with Millgate.
If you download the pic, and juggle about with the Brightness/Contrast, the name 'Weind' can be seen on the street sign on the wall, just to the left of the door of Muriel's shop.
You are all going back,But can you remember Wm Parkes having their steel warehouse up there?? As a boy in the 40,si remember
Going there and collecting a 10/12 ft bar of steel for school metalwork and proceeding to carry it all the way to Whelley School. They afterwards re-located the warehouse into their main worka at Clarington Forge
is it not brick kiln lane
I get it now! It's taken from in front of the civic building, if you turned to your left the new library would be in front of you. The "Face of Wigan" is where this building was.
You've got it, Ben. Hard to imagine though, isn't it? I wish it was still like in the picture; I hate the Glass Box and especially that head!
Irene is right, many a time I would go up Millgate and cut through where the girls are to go round and down the Wiend.