Photo-a-Day  (Friday, 25th June, 2021)

Mick, did you see that coming or are you seriously quick to click?

an abundance of 'wildlife' in Scholes!!
Ps Mick whereabouts exactly is that in Scholes because i cannot place it?

Malc its in the old police station/premier in car park , you can see actually flying on this amazing video @ 2.33 https://youtu.be/Kr4EF9AlFko

Poor thing must be lost.
Just like the lone female mallard I have visiting at the moment, no water/ponds close by at all.

If it's the old police station it isn't scholes, mick.

Poor thing must have taken the wrong turning homewards...Mick you like taking pics of dumps. I try & see the beauty of this world, still I suppose you tell it as it is......

The Premier Inn, Old Police station is not in Scholes.Its in Wigan Town Centre.Go to Premier Inn, Wigan.The map tells you.

Mind you it was a good walk from the Town Centre. The old, old station was nearer on King St..

It isn't in Wigan town centre either.
Wigan, yes. Town Centre, no.
Imagine yourself, getting a taxi.
Taxi driver, "where to"?
You, "Wigan town centre, please".
Imagine your dismay if he dropped you off in Harrogate Street.

Mick has a thing about all things not Glorious Shevvy.

What couldn't be more Glorious than to see a Pheasant in Scholes

Looks like a part of the tall flats on the left and also on the right. Could be anywhere in between, near Scholes bridge ?

Veronica, you can see Blackpool Tower and Snowdon from Billinge Hill, but neither Billinge Hill or Blackpool Tower are in Wales.

I can see the tops of the Welsh Mountains from my back bedroom Bruce, but they're not in Westhoughton either. I suppose we have to take his word for it being Scholes. He's not going to tell us anyway. Perhaps he was trespassing...

I don't have to take his word for it, because I know exactly where that is. It's about 50 yards from Harrogate Street's junction with Riverway, on Harrogate Street Car Park.
Scholes is "t'other side o't'river".

I wasn't too far out then ......

A long way from Scholes Bridge.

I'm a very quick walker... ;o)

To be honest I remember the old Harrogate St and Shelmerdine St, I played around there often enough in the fifties, to me then it was a mere stretch of the legs, no distance at all, even now it wouldn't be "a long way from Scholes Bridge".

It's a quarter of a mile, four minutes walk.
Or a couple of hundred yards along th'old train line and wade through the river.

4 minutes is nothing ...
From the bottom of the old Amy Lane continue under the bridge that was demolished turn left at the top of the brew and where the old pub was on the bend
( can't just think of the name of it) walk on a few yards. Harrogate St, Shelmerdine St and the Wigan Agency where my mother would buy clothes for us. This was well before the re- development of Wigan.

I think we'll agree to disagree Bruce. The point was the distance from where Mick took the photo is as you said ''a long way from Scholes Bridge'' At the bottom of Scholes. I don't think it is . We are both entitled to our opinions.