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Would like to thank Grimshaw for his many years of service in our armed forces. God bless you.

I am looking for photos(hopefully) of Greenbank where the Evans lived 1880/1890s and Kirkpatricks where Alfred was Cashier.
I have to say the Wigan speech/dialect has so much in common with the Black Country spoken around here.Sadly,its dying out as we all become more posh.

Apparently, according to history, the Sankey Canal was there long before the industrial town of St Helens existed and it didn't even go there when it did. It was extended to there by the St Helens extention when the town's industry grew.

Go to the general board, i hve posted a video showing the sea lock at the marina on fiddlers ferry marina , This board won't accept links

Abram, The sea Lock is in the Warrington side of fiddlers, where the marina is, there is a pub there called the fiddlers ferry, At that pub is a sign board telling the tale of, how it got the name fiddlers ferry.
Its from a french bloke who's name was Viola', and through transation through the ages, the viola became fiddle and fiddle became Fiddlers ferry because, he ran a ferry from over the Mersey,

st helens canal is a name commonly, although erroneously, applied to the sankey canal.
this mistake came about after the sankey canal and the runcorn gap railway formed a joint company which was named "st helens canal and railway company" which was a "canal and railway company," - "in st helens"
if you took the time to walk along the canal route you would see the namesigns - Sankey Canal
and yes it has a sea-going lock but at least 2 miles beyond fiddlers ferry at spike island

The sankey canal is the St helens canal, both are unused now,
[url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/sankey-sthelens-canal] and there are boats on the St Helens canal as it has a sea going lock at Fiddlers ferry[/url]

The Sankey Canal (not st helens canal) was opened in 1757 and closed in 1963.
Fiddlers Ferry power station was opened in 1973,
10 years after the Sankey Canal was closed.

If you are as you say, an electrical engineer, ( can you offer any proof ?) I would have thought that, Throwing light would be second nature to you, to my knowledge, there has never been a Canal going to Rainhill but, there is a St Helen canal that runs down the Sankey Valley and was used to deliver coal to Fiddlers Ferry Power station,

I was told that my ancestors emigrated to Wigan by hitchhiking along the Rainhill to Wigan canal on barges. As much as I try, I can't find any evidence of there ever being a canal between Rainhill and Wigan.
Can anyone on here cast any light on it?

In reply to Cam who posted recently are you suggesting all the current posters should change their attitude because you want to do some family research.? Ask your questions I am sure someone will answer.

Why is the communicate being allowed to be used as a child's playground by so called adult males? The childish bickering and bullying that goes on is appalling, whoever is in charge must be turning a blind eye to the culprits and allowing this behaviour. It isn't fair for people like me who are afraid to ask any questions or ask for help on any subjects of interest or to even join in on Wigan world. It really doesn't look good for overseas people with links to the town looking in.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of William Martin Whelan (Bill)
Could they get in touch, I really would love to get in contact with my dad. I know he’s back in Wigan, married Maggie then he married again to Ingrid.
He’s often found in Mesnes Park on a Saturday apparently.
Please help get in touch with him.
Thank you! x

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Does anyone know whether an archive exists on mines in the Wigan/Blackrod/Haigh areas, and on the migration of Scottish men to work in those mines in the 17th-19thC? There are settlements in, for example, Blackrod known locally as Aberdeen and Little Scotland, which, together with the occurrence of Scottish surnames (e.g. Walls/Wallace, Armstrong and Hutchinson), strongly suggest that there has been Scottish migration to the area in the past.

If there are any Wigan family historians who have been able to trace mining ancestor roots to Scotland, I'd be very pleased to hear from them and to learn how they went about their research.

Hi, Paul, big Als grandson. Was told about your message here . How's grandmother Julie doing. Would love to keep in touch. Chicago sound a million miles away from Marsh Green. Big Al has my contact details

Hi Walter, I lived in Wigan some years ago while the heat was cooling from some business missadventure we had here in Hammond
Anyhow, while I was living there ,another business venture went wrong and we needed some large amounts of concrete to provide resting area's for people who did not want to co-operate, So we built the Galleries, Boy you should have heard the Wigan folks bleat about it, So I guess they finally got their way and had it pulled down,, I'm glad I got outta there because there's going to be a skeleton or two falling outta the cupboard

Walter Wigan market square is undergoing an industrial evolution and its demolition men one square nil. They are wiping the floor of steel and concrete. As to shopping mall's Wigan does not have any but has an out of town shopping centre. You can order Uncle Joes from Asda(what was Walmart) but the toffees are all the same you will have to suck one and see

Can any of you seemingly knowledgable people kindly point me in the right direction about the industrial revolution?
I understand it took place in Wigan but where? I think it could have happened on the Market Square, but it doesn't look big enough for a revolution.
I read about the pirate ships that sailed the canal in your locality before it was made into the river Douglas. All very interesting.
I ordered some of your Uncle Joes Mint Balls of Amazon last month, but they haven't arrived yet, but someone on your site says they're not as good as they used to be? Is there any shopping malls in Wigan where I could order some of the older ones that are better?

Totally agree with your comments, Janice.