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I worked in Standish in 1971 so this lane would have looked just the same as it does on the photo. I love the shadow of the old street-lamp ....I loved the shape of those old lamps; you still see them occasionally.

Another interesting picture Barrie. The Wigan Corporation single deck
bus is on route 20, Standish to Orrell Post via Shevington and Gathurst.
The journey needs a single deck bus because of Gathurst railway bridge.
Ray.

You would probably need to take a photograph of this location , and get this effect, in the middle of the night now. Along with the rest of Standish centre roads it is permanently gridlocked, even in the evenings.

Almond's Brewery on the left, demolished mid 80's (?) and now Aldi

Thats not Winter Hill in the distance its Rivington Pike

School Lane, Standish between the RC St Marie and CE St Wilfrid churches. Unusual for small lamp posts instead of tall lamp posts on a main road. The single deck bus is a 1950s Leyland Royal Tiger.

My late hilda Lowe lived in the two cottages
Just before almonds brewery on the left of the picture,the steam train from Coppull used to go past
The side of her home in 1964 and the train lines used
To go across school Lane between Dr bobs garden and the dog and partridge public house.

Could it be the 30th September at about 4.50pm.

You can still see one of these buses at 4.38 on this video https://youtu.be/5mPIXi0GjFQ

Mick, Rivington Pike is on Winter Hill.
Eddie, the train went from Robin Hill pit to the coal washery at Gidlow, as you say it ran between the cottages where Hilda lived and the terraced houses across School Lane between Dr Bobs and the building on the right which is now an Indian take away and a soon to be Persian restaurant, but was a couple of shops in those days.

31st September 1969 - does that date actually exist??????

CJ

I think the shop on the right may have been called Glennon's . Later it became a chippy with a dining room .
The shop with the white front was Noel Chadwick's butchers .

Wigan Mick
Rivington Pike is a Hill
on Winter Hill part of the West Pennine Moors
at Rivington.

Winter Hill is one of several hills which are on Hail Storm Hill, on West Pennines, Pennine Chain.

I think Father got confused in his old age when going through the photographs I found. I think it should be 1st October as the diary for that date, states "walk-School Lane-Beech Walks-Prospect Yard-Lodge Gates.
I must admit it didn't register with my brain when I uploaded the photo. Apologies for lack of checking. 3 wacks of the cane young man!!
The point I was making was the lack of traffic, a lovely day and the hills in which we call Winter Hill even though Rivington Pike is slightly lower but still part of the range. Ray, the bus I used to catch at time in the early 60's when I was based at Springs Road Kitt Green offices of McAlpines when I was training to be an Civil Engineer on the M6 motorway construction. The problem was bus timings then didn't always match my working hours so it was a hit or miss situation.

Th shop on the right was Croppers shop, then {Alan Brown, once Wigan football manager] we caught the bus there to go to Shevington school in the 60s.

One of the two shops was Joe Croppers pie shop Colin before he moved into Market St in Cheethams old bakery and shop.

Standish and the roads leading up to the lights are usually gridlocked. I have taken to going via Shevington/Standish Lower ground to return to Whitley.
Wigan Mick….where have you come across Hail Storm Hill ? The dark green patch are probably the woods that lead up to the Pike.

As Roy says, the premises on the right have been extensively refurbished and are presently being fitted out as a Persian take-away. Strangely, there seems to be no provision for wheelchair access to its entrance.
The terraced houses on the left were built by Almonds' brewery for their workers. They are graded in size - getting larger as you move up the hill - with a pair of semis at the top, before Almond's own villa, The Beeches. I assume as workers were promoted in the brewery they moved up the hill, taking over the house of their predecessor.

I spent many a night up Standish with my two Standish mates I come from wigan myself,but have always enjoyed a pint of Almonds bItter in the sixties.it had a taste of its own,

The hills are Rivington Pike (with the tower on top) and Winter Hill (with the TV transmitter on top), separate hills. The railway line that crossed School Lane near Almond's Brewery was a colliery line that went up to Chisnall Hall Colliery and Robin Hill Drift Mine. No passenger trains ever went that way. The 20 route was very infrequent and some only went as far as the Plough & Harrow in Shevington and some started at the old Heinz factory in Bradley. It is little wonder it never coincided with start and finish times at work.