Aldi

Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere,but plans have been passed to demolish the garage and build a new Aldi store on the Arnold Clarke site on Wigan Rd....source st helens star....nowt int wigan paper

I read about it on the Wigan Today web site.

DOH...missed that one,sorry peeps, thanks Bill

Full story in the MEN all about it. Follow up that once it is built the Ashton store will close.

My son knows a person in the planning dept of Wigan and, he told him the hold up was with the plans for making a safe road junction at Wigan Road/Mere Rd/ Old road, So they must have formulated plans now,,

It's needed traffic lights on the cross roads for years .There have been a few accidents there over the years

You're right Peter also needed is lights or round about at Wigan road/Cansfield, thats a night mare,

Tom your right both very busy junction at the best of times. When I lived on Whitledge Green I used to come out onto the "T" junction at the front of Bryn LC. Had a few near misses at the cross road more so with buses turning right off Wigan Road onto Old Road. Even has far back as 1969 I witnessed a bad accident were two people died following an accident at the cross roads You do not forget things like that easily.

How many more shopping centers are needed in ashton ?? how many people now days walk to the shops ??? should have put in in the 3 sisters

Peter the Three Sisters is a recreation/warehouse area not a retail site. There is only one small shopping centre in Ashton around the Greenway centre (google it).

Plus Lidl,Iceland ,Heron ,B and M etc on the Gerrard

Lidl is not on the Gerard centre neither is Aldi and compered to Robin Park/ Middlebrook is small but has a good selection of shops

I've heard they suppose be building a mcdonalds on the aldi site when that goes.

peter p i know i lived there i was talking about the warehouse area plenty of parking no reason for kids to hang around last time i was in Ashton they was 3 super markets in the center i pity the ones who are going to live around an Aldi all the cars are now going to drive though the estate its going to make Eskdale road like wigan road ....

Bet Mr Gorners not too pleased

They have been on about opening a supermarket on that site for about five years now, Ashton town centre is awful for traffic, and what it needs is a nice new A58 bypass road

Peter Israel, well at least the folk on Eskdale Road will not be abolishing the judiciary

Mister Gorner don't live there and hasn't, for years, anyroad my wife said that Lidl can knock Aldi into a cooked hat

Bentlegs,yes he does… near ghbc
Spoke to him this morning

I am related by marriage to those Gorners

Some where along the line my missus is related to the Gorner's on her dad's side. Three of the Gorner's from Yorkshire attended our wedding in 1975

It was a lady cousin of me mums, who married one of those Gorners in the 1940s or 50s and the Gorner was a teacher at Bolton School, and she was a special needs teacher

Peter (abolish the Joodishery) Israel

"How many more shopping centers are needed in ashton"

I think we need a new shopping centre to relive the pressure on Robin Park which is too busy now, I have said before, put a new shopping centre on a development accessed from the top island at Marus Bridge going over and linking to that new warehouse development they are building off Bolton Road at Stubshaw Cross, and that Heron Foods and One Stop shops are now open on Worsley Mesnes

When M6 first opened, there seemed to be some expectation that the (Juncton 25) link road would be extended east to provide a link from A49 Park Lane to A58 somewhere thereabouts. I do not know if it was ever part of any plan, or just conjecture.

Ena

It was part of the Lancashire County Council 3 sisters reclamation project. On the eastern side it emerged onto the A58 at the Rams Head pub.
On the western side it emerged onto the A49 near to the M6 link road at Landgate. It was scrapped when Wigan Council assumed responsibility for the project following the 1974 local government reorganisation legislation.

Thank you gaffer.

We read about a few master plans which previous councils had in the pipe line and which got vetoed by the new council

Ashton History LINK

Gaffer, my great aunt was a Lancashire County Alderman and she had a photo of her, lady Pilk., and the queen at the 3 Sisters, in the early 70's. So, it must've been a long standing project. I was invited to take part in the very first race meeting at the 3 Sisters, in 1979.

Horace Gorner used to live near me, I think he moved to the Lakes somewhere?

Horace fell off the twig a few years ago,it’s Graham that I speak of

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Graham Gorner married my cousin and moved to Colwyn Bay years ago, as far as I know they are still there j

Was your cousin Frances Bentlegs? It's not long since I saw Graham outside the bungalow, that was built for his dad Horace, in Nicol Road.
Graham was a director at Wigan Athletic in the days when Arthur Horrocks was chairman.

Gaffer , it is Frances who Graham married she has a twin sister who lives by me she was married to Duggie who died a few weeks ago,

Bentlegs

Dougie Yates wife Irene was from Coventry, Graham Gorners wife was from Wigan.

Bentlegs refers to Ralph’s wife,who lives on DGR.
She had a twin sister who also married a Gorner,they lived on Wigan Road before moving away
Btw Graham does indeed still live in his dads house

Did the Gorner not live behind the garage ??

Now opening as a Farm food store the old Aldi in Princess road.