WIGAN TIMBER

Does anyone know what has happened to this company? Went down yesterday and the premises was all locked up. Looked through the letterbox and its empty? Have they moved or packed in??? SAVOY TIMBER must be rubbing their hands if they have packed in.. Price increase on the way...

Gone Bust LINK

Very sorry to hear this. I always bought any timber I wanted from there. The people were always very helpful. I feel sorry for the employees, Most of whom were getting on, and will find it difficult to find another job.

This is bad news for Wigan Timber, but good news for trees.
And plastic doors and window firms!

I Wish I was a tree, Some of them in forests are 500 years old and they spend all their lives with nature all around them and when eventually get cut down, they could become a violin or a guitar and spend another few centuries in concerts,

In the mid 1970s I was something a woodwork type of person, and at Newtown you had Clays diy, which mainly supplied wood, and M.A, Peters which was a timber merchants, and I think it became Savoy Timber, and Clays supplied second hand wood, so I was always mauling about with wood

I have 3 acres of pine, carob and olive trees. Some of the olives are 300 years +.
The carob is one of the hardest woods I’ve ever seen and has a nice red colour, looks great when oiled.

Could you make a Xylophone out of it

Probably !

I did not know there was a timber merchants down Swan Meadow Road

It was Dunlops Peter.

I remember going to Clay's multiple times, always made a point of stopping and checking the offcuts bin near the saws, got some useful pieces of wood from that.

timi. Wigan Timber sold Off Cuts too. I've had a lot of stuff from the "Off Cuts" over the years<g>They guy serving just charged £2.00. which went into a POT for the workers Christmas Do. I think?
Last time I was in there. The guy on the saw, was telling me that they would be moving, due to the redevelopment. To a piece of land near the EDGE church..

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