Not Latics - Wigan-Various Pics

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Sorry, I apologise for a senior moment, despite playing on both grounds I somehow decided Mesnes Cricket Field was Bull Hey which as I should have remembered was and is the home of Wigan Cricket Club.

Don't worry, you're in good company.

 

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Market Place, 1950's.​

 

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Lowe's in the early 1960s.​

 

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Lowe's in the 1960s.​

 

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Market Place, 1970's.​

 

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closing down sale at Lowe's in 1985.​

 

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Martland Mill with Westwood power station in background.

 

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Westwood Power Station cooling towers is blown up at
10.15am on Sunday, 15th January 1989.

 

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Higher Ince along the Leeds and Liverpool canal towards
Westwood power station around 1970.

 

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Ince canal, with ​

Westwood power station in full flow in 1971.​

 

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Ormskirk Road, Newtown, 1960s.

 

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Poolstock in Wigan in 1970 with the cooling towers of
Westwood power station in the background.

 

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Poolstock with St Thomas and St James Church
and Westwood Power Station cooling towers, 1970s.

 

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A view from Highfield of the second cooling tower being blown up at 10.38am on January 15, 1989.

 

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Saying farewell in September to Westwood power station which was to close at midnight on 29th of October 1986 are former employees

Ron Fisher, front, (Operations Foreman), Harry Tryner, left, (Storekeeper), Jack Corker, right, (Shift Charge Engineer)
and Jimmy Johnson (Leading Turbine Operator).

 

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Lesley Anne Booth, from Ashton, whose dad won the
Hospice Draw for the honour of pressing the plunger which blasted one of the huge concrete edifices into smithereens.

 

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Westwood Power Station.

 

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Westwood power station workers' dispute in 1972.

 

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Westwood Power Station and its smoking chimneys in full flow in January 1985 in a view from Martland Mill.

 

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Leading Turbine Operator Jimmy Johnson at his old post near the 30,000 volts turbine control panel in Westwood power station which was to close at midnight on 29th of October 1986.