Photo-a-Day  (Saturday, 26th July, 2025)

My God, Brian. Are you doing this on purpose or do you genuinely not know?

Cotton Works is off Swan Meadow Rd, Wigan, WN3 5BE. Not off Pottery Road.
Get yourself an A to Z.

Smart looking building.

I visited the Three Mills pub at the Cotton works couple weeks ago, it's very nice, but somebody somewhere will be getting a lot of sun reflexion from those massive picture windows.

I think this mill building was used for private businesses on the upper floors. I remember doing a fortnight’s temporary work in the late eighties. It was really spooky going inside up stairs. It was a Wire Mesh firm using space for their office and there was another firm in another part. To be honest I was glad at the end of the fortnight.
I remember when it was a Museum as well and a shopping complex later in the bottom part. That was very good for buying well known bedding stuff such as duvet covers which had become very popular to buy instead of blankets. It seems so long ago but the time as gone in the blink of an eye….

I haven’t checked out the link yet but It looks to be coming on a treat Brian.

I could be wrong, but is this the old Eckersley Mill?

The Cotton Works is off Pottery Road and on or along Swan Meadow Road.

Sick of people who say a building is in a different street than shown on the photo . To stop these arguments just put Wigan and let people google it.

The website says 800+ luxury apartments. I doubt that this will be contributing to the affordable housing shortage which we so desperately need. Car parking is for 250 cars
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My Auntie worked there when it was Eckersley's Mill. I remember going twice when it became Opie's Museum for a short time.....it was absolutely fascinating.

Brian is correct, it is off Pottery Road.

PeterP I totally agree with you.
Fantastic photo Brian just off Pottery Road. I Know it well.

The ground floor on right hand side was an auction centre in 80s, and next door to right of pic was the weaving shed which was operational until 1988, and the land at front was car and coach park for Wigan pier.

I am glad I do not know which one is Pottery Rd or which one is Swan Meadow Rd so it not bother me.

Interesting to know it was Eckersley's...my Auntie Annie got my Dad a job there when he left school.
An amazing building, knocks all those modern glass structures into the weeds.

Irene, when I went to the Opie Museum, I think it was in Trencerfield Mill.
I thought it was rubbish, only items they had were old Cornflakes and Daz soap boxes, and tins of different food, and some had rust on them, so they must all have been past their sell-by date

omment by: John Noakes on 26th July 2025 at 01:17
My God, Brian. Are you doing this on purpose or do you genuinely not know?

Cotton Works is off Swan Meadow Rd, Wigan, WN3 5BE. Not off Pottery Road.
Get yourself an A to Z.

Thanks Tonker

It's not 'on' Pottery Road and it's not 'on' Swan Meadow Road either, so it must be 'off' both of them.
It's 'off' Fourteen Meadows Road and Pottery Terrace too, come to that.
But it's address is Swan Meadow Road and you turn 'off' Swan Meadow Road to get to it, so, logic tells us it's 'off' Swan Meadow Road.

That’s surprising Veronica . I would have thought the vibe and feeling from the mill would have had a more warm and beautiful energy . The mills , like the factories and the pits became like your family. I see mills girls as laughing in groups , linking arms , as people in the same moment in time . I would have thought the essence of your feeling would have been far from spooky but more - I don’t no , a more warming feeling of the people who embraced the togetherness they shared and that lingered .
I worked in a factory for only 7 years but the bond you form is extraordinary ! Then imagine people who have worked in places together 40 year or more , how do we measure that bond ?
I am always bowed when I hear the pitman explaining the trust and dependency they had on each other which formed a bond for life that could never be broken- how indeed could you break that bond and why would you want to , they put their lives on the line for each other .
Some people call it ghosts but I personally don’t believe or accept that the energies and life force of those treasured people who created it simply disperses !
Each to their own WW

Slippery Mick, aka Tonker.

Off Pottery Road is defined as at a distance.
On Swan Meadow is defined as very close to the road.

For Gods sake you lot, we all know roughly where it is, who cares about the precise address. Haven’t you anything else to occupy your simple minds.
It’s like listening to a load of old folk on a care home. Was it Tuesday? no it was definitely Thursday but the more I think about it, it was Friday, then again the more I think about it I’m sure it was Wednesday.
Two sugars air three dear, don’t confuse me.
Get the point!!!!!!!!

It may have been how you describe Dave at one time but it was dilapidated and empty on the lower floors. My mother worked there in the 40’s and 50’s . She loved working in the Mills but it wasn’t for me when I left school in the dying days of cotton mills. I did like the camaraderie at the Royal Ordinance Factory at Chorley though that was superb. Listening to the old timers tales of what went on during the war was fascinating.

It is a lifetime ago since I lived in Wigan, but I do like to stay appraised of what is happening.

Thanks to all who post and comment upon photos of this nature.

C’mon WN6 , that’s what this site’s all about these days innit ?
The erratic everyday shenanigans that take place within the confines of a home for the terminally confused .
Has been for ages actually .
Don’t tell me the penny’s only just dropped .

Agree WN6, to many on here mourn for England and say stupid things.

I am glad I do not know which one is Pottery Rd or which one is Swan Meadow Rd so it not bother me.

Been to the Three Mills a few times. Nice place to have a drink and a chat. It makes you wonder why all the old mills around Lancashire weren't made use of?