Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

Thanks all. No I'm not local (I live in Crosby), so I'm going by old maps, and my idea of "opposite" isn't as good as as yours, obviously. Sorry for confusing you.
Chris Southworth - I have googled for a picture, and have seen an old drawing which might be the one you are thinking of , but it is a different Strangeways Hall, one in central Manchester and which gave its name to the prison.
Retep 1949: Yes, I saw that picture of the trolleybuses, with a gabled house half-obscured by the bridge railings. Am I getting my stations and bridges mixed up, or could that house in the picture be the one called The Lowe? (As you have seen, my local geography is theoretical, not practical!)