Wigan Album

Tom,
Whereabouts was the farm ?. I always thought across the road where the houses are now was an old Colliery site

According to an old OS map (circa 1890), Springs Cottage and Whalley House were across the road from the pub. Going by the layout of the buildings Whalley House could have been a farm.

there used to be a BRS wagon park were the farm stood john.
my father in law ,who today would have been 109 worked at the farm, he remembered old Ellis when he was a lad

I remember the farm. it was there in the 1950s When it was demolished BRS opened a depot there, it is now an housing estate. Whalley House was on the opposite side of Prescot Rd
and was later the football fields which I think belonged to Heinz

Tom,
How interesting I now live on the site of the farm.

John, you were right, there was a colliery on that site.
According to a book "The Orrell Coalfield(1740-1850)Bartons Pits would probably be in Bartons Meadow on the south side of the junction of Springs Road and Latham Lane, near to where the BRS garage was situated, which is as you say where you now live.The pit opened 1763 and date closed was 1765 all of 126 weeks.Produced on average 7 tons of coal per week,so not a very big pit but none the less did exist

It would be interesting to know just how old this couple were at the time. Does anyone have any idea?

That would have been hard work getting 7tons in those days. All pick and shovel

they cant have been to old.it was there wedding day