General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Anthony said:

” It never flooded much before, so it can't be said that the damm worked”

So it didn’t flood there much did it, well in the great flood of the latter part of the year 2000, I think it was in November, the River Douglas flooded under the railway bridge on Wallgate and the police closed the road. At about the same time Scot Lane flooded at Martland Mill in between Martland Mill Lane and the road bridge across the River Douglas, thus closing the road there and I remember wading waist deep in water, carrying a pram over my head, so that the lady and her baby who were going to Marsh Green, could get home, me a Wigan taxi driver responding to a crisis and going beyond the call of duty to ensure I got me ‘fare’ to their destination, like the old saying says, “when the going gets tough the tough get going” and it was worse on the way back to the cab, because the water had got deeper and I had to swim back along Scot Lane under the railway bridge and there was tree branches, rats, shit and all sorts in that water and when I got to the other end I was pulling bits of twigs from between me teeth

Then I realised that there are only three ways across the River Dougie, in Wigan,,, Scot Lane near Beech Hill, Wallgate near Asda and Chapel Lane near Poolstock and on that particular day, Chapel Lane was the only way to get across the Dougie, if you were travelling to the South of Wigan Town Centre,, so on that particular day I gave up trying to get home by going via Chapel Lane after sitting (soaking wet) in a traffic jam on Woodhouse Lane, for three hours, because the traffic was so bad and I ended up going home via Southport, it took me seven hours to get home, to Woprsley Mesnes,, so Anthony if you don’t mind, I think your views on flooding in Wigan are a not exactly reet