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

The croft as we called was just part of the fields that the estate was being built on, it was cleaned up and just left after the council had finished using it as a big storage place for everything that was needed for building the estate, goal posts in the 40/50s there was no grass in the middle as the soil was full of lime from the mortar mixer and nothing would grow there for years,you couldn't even walk across to Rectory road if it had been raining