Wigan Album

Think I preferred my dads garage! Wonder if anyone who lives in the apartments knows its past history.

i remember wigan r u club behind the trees and the rugby fields where a certain mr conroy rode his horse and let it do its body function all over the pitch so that us rugby players could roll about in it and then we could all jump in the bath and say we had a great day. We humans take the biscuit

Thirteen members of Wigan RUFC were killed in WW2 - there's a memorial to them and the one WW1 casualty in the present clubhouse - but each of the 13 was also commemorated with a silver tankard, inscribed with his details, and date of death. I've only traced one of these, for Ken Rigby - to Southport RUFC's clubhouse at Birkdale - for whom Rigby also played (he's also on their memorial).

I'm assuming this is why Wigan Central owner Patsy Slevin called her brewery Prospect Brewery as she started this in her back garden up in Standish ?

I remember the petrol station in Standish, it finished about the year 2000. Behind the trees are perhaps the most expensive detached houses in the area, one has an indoor swimming pool called Trescott Mews.

I remember the petrol station well as I once lived four doors down from it.

I fully agree with Ian about which is preferred.

Barrie, I regularly got on and off the bus at that mentioned bus stop, at the access area of the Lodge Gates. I think, one of the buses was the 125 and another one was the 113. To get home from Wigan, I mostly caught the bus at the main bus station (close to Wigan Market Hall) and I caught it on the car park side of the bus station and just outside the cafe door.

Mr X, I remember the plots of land (where those expensive houses are now) going on sale. The land, which had belonged to the old large house, was divided into plots and each plot was offered for sale - obviously, the buyer dealt with the house they wanted building on the plot.
I can't remember the price of each plot, but I can remember that they weren't all the same size and weren't the same price - I think, the corner plots were the most expensive and possibly the largest.
What I can say, the price of one of those plots was probably less than 5% of today's price of the house which stands on that particular plot.