Photo-a-Day  (Friday, 10th May, 2024)

My wife is disabled but always for a few years wanted to ride a horse. Thanks to the owners and staff of landlords farm she got her wish and had a few rides round both the indoor and outdoor paddocks with the assistance of the obliging staff. Would recommend this farm to anyone abled or disabled to give it a try

Remember it when it was a farm - Hough family.
As that picture emerged Dennis, I knew exactly where it was. The old railway bridge would have been above you to your right - back in the day, with Dicconson Lane station c 45 degrees to your right.
Dicconson Lane? Dicky Loan!!

The sun is sinking in the West
Cows go down to the stream
The redwing settles in the nest
It's time for a cowboy to dream
Purple light in the canyons
That's where I long to be
With my three good companions
Just my camera, bus pass and me.

Good photo of Howthen Dennis.

An old schoolfriend was recently in Spain when a local Wigan newspaper printed photos of her grandson's christening and she messaged me via facebook to ask if I could get her a copy. I offered to drop it off at her house and she gave me a Westhoughton address complete with postcode, which we punched into the satnav. I was amazed to find the house was in what I still considered to be Hindley.....I had honestly thought the border between Hindley and Westhoughton was much further on. That is a lovely scene, Dennis.

John, it looks like a clean, tidy and professionally run equestrian centre.
Never rode more than a donkey myself, although I was on the back of a runaway camel in Egypt about 30 years ago. Said I would never climb onto anything with four legs, let alone a hump ever again!

My favourite exit from Howfen down the lane into Aspull. A beautiful view at the top of the hill, I shall be going past there a bit later in the direction of Rivington. Lovely photo Dennis.

Beautiful photo of a lovely area,pass here very regularly,sometimes on way out of Borsdane Wood or on way to Middlebrook.

Oops! Howfen not Howthen.
Bravo Veronica.

Landlords Farm belonged to my Grandad Henry Walker and his sister Mary Hough and her husband Fred, up and till it was sold to the Equestrian Centre.
I had many happy times on the farm ,potato picking, and at harvest time, in the school holidays.
There's a few photos, I put on Wigan World albums under Barker family, with some of Henry and Fred, took on the farm.
Nice photo Dennis.

Delivered concrete there Dennis 30/35 years ago when Landlords farm was first starting to help less able people ride horses,another 2 miles and would have put kettle on for you.Colin that’s why they put rubbers on pencils referring to John instead of Dennis big smiley face.

Colin did the camel take the hump when you got on.

Not quite, but being in the Middle East for ten years I knew enough Arabic to make my extreme displeasure known to the young lad who hit it with a stick to send me on my way into the desert. Talk about red sails in the sunset, I couldn’t sit down for a week!

Nice story David, I shall certainly look this up.

Colin, they reckon a Camel is a horse designed by a committee.

Dennis is there a bus that from Aspull that takes you up Dicky loan.

No John, all the bus stops are still there, but there ain’t no buses.

Don’t be silly ! Even our own Royal family genuflects to the lands of the humble camel !

Cheers Dennis that’s a bad state of affairs how must the people that live near the Gerrard get about………terrible.

John (Westhoughton), there is a bus from Westhoughton that goes down Diccinson Lane and Bolton Road to Aspull, then to Horwich then to Rivington. It's number 915. In fact, if I.m not mistaken, there's two, there might be a number 715.

Is the 915 not the school bus George?

Interesting George maybe have a few drinks in the Moorgate with all of the PAD that are interested cheers.

The 715 was taken off a few years ago George. I used to catch it regularly. As far as I know there’s no buses run down Dicconson Lane. There’s a 615 that runs to Horwich from Westhoughton but doesn’t go down Dicconson Lane I catch that fairly regularly. I don’t know about a 915 bus.

You’re right Dennis no wonder I couldn’t get a bus around dinner,pity George but you did try to help.

Please yourself, but this is what the Bee Network Site says -

https://tfgm.com/public-transport/bus/routes/915-daisy-hill

George look at the timetable and try to find that bus out of school t travel times as I did.

It could be a School Bus George I know there’s a lot of children from Aspull go to St Joseph’s at Horwich. My children and grandchildren went there.

Funny mammal
Is the camel
It's nature's quite contrary ,
Some have one hump
Others two
Be it Bactrian or Dromedary .

Some won't budge
And need a nudge
Before they put on a spurt ,
Requiring a whack
Across the back
Before charging across the desert .

Colin was getting frantic ,
He was all at sea ,
Like Del Boy in mid Atlantic
On his tearaway jet ski ,
With such transport never dabble ,
It's best to use your feet ,
For only fools and camels
Go out in the mid day heat .

It’s definitely the school bus George because it passes my house and then continues down Daisy Hill. I see young ones getting off. In fact there are special stops stating just for that bus on Leigh Rd. The other services don’t use them.

Thanks Colin .

Poet, you’re better at writing poetry than peeing over walls.

DTease , I bet you'll remember the old camel joke ... the one with the punchline ending.... ' only if you trap your thumbs ' .

Dtease you’re a naughty boy. I would have slapped your legs - I bet you mam did and twisted yer ear as well. EEh! You haf’ter laff.
;~)]

Yes Poet that’s really good and comical like wot Dtease does - only longer!
I nominate you for Poet Laureate of Wigan World..