PROSPECT LODGE

Is this building still there? Where is it, and how do you get to it? I've been looking at an old newspaper cutting from the early 1950's and it shows a pyramid structure probably about 20ft high in the garden Does anyone remember seeing it and is it still there?

If anyone remembers it’s Alan Lad. I thought it was where we got off the Standish bus on Wigan Road and where the boyfriend and I did our courting . The bus carried on to Pepper Lane where it turned round and was the last bus back to Wigan which my boyfriend caught. My dad told me off the day after for showing him up, one of our neighbours, walking his dog, said goodnight to me and he jokingly told my dad he’d seen me. Goodness knows what dad would have thought seeing what goes on today.

admin.,
The building is still there if you are enquiring about the one in Standish. The lodge is on Wigan Road and on the left, before the centre (The Globe, shops etc) when coming from Wigan.
There was a petrol station on the left, between Ashfield Park (at the bottom of the hill) and Standish centre, which was demolished about twenty years ago and there is an apartment block on the land; the lodge is about 100m further on.
To give you a guide, the lodge is opposite to approx. 45 Wigan Road.
The lodge is slightly set back from the road and is gable-end on as the front door faces the road (I believe, there is no name to this road/driveway) which once led up to Prospect House.
The lodge is also mostly hidden by trees and bushes, so can be easily missed. I think, there is still a bus stop outside of the lodge gates.
By the way, the pyramid structure may have been in the grounds of Prospect House and belonged to one of the people there and not to the lodge.

Additionally, most of the land belonging to Prospect House was sold off as building land in the 1980's and detached houses were built. Therefore, it is possible that the pyramid structure, if it was still there in the 1980's, was removed before the land was offered for sale.
Also, I think that Prospect House was demolished many years ago.

Ian the garage you refer to was Prospect garage and was at the top of the hill before the Lodge Gates and was 76 Wigan Road. It was about 1970 when it was demolished to make way for the apartments. I know because I lived at the garage.

Thinking back?? I think I can remember a pyramid shaped structure in the Lodge garden. I can vaguely remember seeing it from the top deck of a Ribble bus??The only time I've been passed there on a bus was when we used to visit my Grandma who lived at Wrightington. So it must have been 1950's. I'll go to the Library this week and find out some more info. about it and a photograph of it. The text with the image says that it was built in the 1700's? and the owner was using it as a Coal Shed..

Linma, I know. But, thanks for those details about it being Prospect garage etc.
"It was about 1970 when it was demolished to make way for the apartments. I know because I lived at the garage."
Interesting to read that you once lived at the garage. But, sorry to say, you are mistaken with the year. Possibly, the garage you mentioned was demolished around 1970, but was replaced by a more modern garage and not by apartments. The garage that I mentioned was definitely there in the late 1980's, because I bought things from the shop and my dad sometimes got petrol there. Additionally, the garage - which was still called Prospect Garage - was not an old building and could have been built in 1970 as it was a typical design of that period. The garage/petrol station (Prospect Garage) was a similar structure to the one on Wigan Lane, at the top of Walter Scott Avenue. This petrol station was also demolished about twenty-five years ago. Possibly, both petrol stations were owned by the same company.
The garage/petrol station (Prospect Garage) was very close to where we lived. But! I cannot say anything about the area and what it was like in 1970 and the 1950's and 1960's, because I wasn't around then.
By the way, my parents nearly bought the bungalow next door to Prospect Garage for my grandparents to live in.

The bungalow you refer to was owned by Mr and Mrs Little and Mr Little made garden furniture.