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15 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 33864
I believe this pub was near the ‘Amy’ Lane near Scholes Bridge. I have no recollection of it at all or the other buildings. Where the building on the far end is jutting out, I think was where motor bikes were sold at one time.
Some info in wigan archives says it was a lodging house
I am trying to work out where in Scholes it is? The pub is at the bottom of an incline near - so I am assuming it is somewhere at the end of Millgate (near where Douglas House now stands) or is at the bottom of Greenhough Street (near where the McD's drive thru).
It’s at the bottom end of Scholes. Just after where the old railway bridge was. Definitely not Greenough St. I’m trying to work out if the houses at the top of the alleyway are on Warrington Rd. or streets that led to Darlington St. combining Shelmerdine St where the new Police Station was built.?
Superb picture Ron.
Veronica, here's a link to a map on Stuff and showing the location of the pubs in Scholes, the Moulders Arms as you said in your initial post looks to be at the side of Amy Lane (where it was originally) and the river Douglas bridge.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/pubs1.php
Thank you Cyril. I have just looked at the map and could see that the pub was on the edge of the ‘garden’ near Amy Lane. I thought it was a bit further down. I also noticed the Clock Face
Pub. I didn’t know it was the name of a pub. My grandfather was born at 1 Clockface Yard in 1881.
Veronica I think it's near the entrance of woodcock house ,up to warrington rd
Yes it is Tom.. the alleyway was leading me astray.
Is it where Palatines pop place used to be?
So the alleyway must be Amy Lane then behind the building.
That's right veronica your cracked it
It took a while Tom but I got there in the end. I wish we could see more of the Amy Lane …
We're the grass was with the railings around was I was told it never safe to go on, never saw anybody go on when I lived up scholes
I didn’t know that Tom. You couldn’t get in because of the spiked railings, I remember the huge white rocks jutting out of the soil. It was a little oasis in Scholes.