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Dicconson Lane, Aspull
Dicconson Lane, Aspull
Photo: DTease
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Dicconson Lane Post Office.

Comment by: Allan Hilton on 12th May 2018 at 20:02

It may say Dicconson Lane Post Office but this road is actually Bolton Road Aspull, I grew up around here the shop was run by the Westheads when the old post office across the road closed down. The bottom right is the Gerrard Arms, and Mill Lane were I used to live. 4 doors down from shop was my Aunty Doris Keefe nee Hilton lived,

Comment by: Alan on 12th May 2018 at 20:08

If you don't use them they shut!

Comment by: DTease on 12th May 2018 at 20:27

It's undeniable Alan, you have an amazing talent for seeking out the bleeding obvious.

Comment by: Julie on 13th May 2018 at 09:51

I to also lived across the road further down I remember Jack and Connie who used to run the shop, and also the old post office was across the road they were called the weavers fred and polly used to run it in the 60s and early 70s.

Comment by: Howard P on 13th May 2018 at 18:15

But Alan has a point, I suspect.

Comment by: DTease on 13th May 2018 at 19:26

Welcome back Howard! As the Horlicks worn off?

Comment by: Elizabeth on 14th May 2018 at 06:59

I walk past here regularly after walking through Borsdane Wood and back home. I've always loved Aspull, my favourite place in the Wigan and district area.

Comment by: Mr X on 16th May 2018 at 21:53

Don't know the reason why this was called Dicconson Lane post office as it was in Bolton Road, Aspull, that was in the Wigan borough. Dicconson Lane starts a few hundred yards down the road, and is not in Aspull, but in Westhoughton district in the Bolton borough. The pub that still exists is the Gerrard Arms, number 615 Bolton Road, and ironically the only bus route that went this way was the 15 later 615 from Wigan to Bolton with a stop outside the pub.

Comment by: Veronica on 17th May 2018 at 10:16

I recall that people who lived on Dicconson Lane were called 'Diccy Loners' by some folk in Westhoughton.

Comment by: DTease on 17th May 2018 at 17:37

For those of us who lived around The Finger Post anything past the Hare and Hounds was “Dean t’Mill”. As in ‘Er cum from dean t’Mill ‘er did”.

Comment by: Joan Harrison on 5th June 2023 at 13:19

My Grandad Peter Gerrard had his clogger's shop in Dicconson Lane, can anyone tell me what house number it was please.

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