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Pearce family Upholland Nr Wigan

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Orrell Brick and Tile Winstanley  Clay pit 1970's
Orrell Brick and Tile Winstanley Clay pit 1970's
Photo: Martin Pearce
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Item #: 12659
Out fishing in the clay pit when it first aquired fish.( just above the Blue Lagoon) The gun was for the odd rat, still have the gun aquired from Oliver Summers on my seventeenth birthday.I remember walking on the bottom of the cutout before it was filled with water.
Photo by Colin Pearce

Comment by: al on 1st December 2009 at 18:52

used to do lot of that myself shooting the odd rat while fishing, we would get arrested for it today (happy days)

Comment by: Steve Sutton on 23rd January 2011 at 16:54

Have you got any photos of the Blue Lagoon?How did the Clay Pit acquire fish?
Thanks

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