EP51 #narrowboat "POP" Chivers We Join the Leeds & Liverpool canal at Leigh and travel towards Wigan
Channel: Old, Rebellious, Not Out!!
Date: 10/12/2023

#canal #canalhistory #narrowboat #wigan #canalboat #historical 

Leeds and Liverpool canal
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/canals-and-rivers/leeds-and-liverpool-canal

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of 127 miles, crossing the Pennines, and including 91 locks on the main line. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal has several small branches, and in the early 21st century a new link was constructed into the Liverpool docks system. 

Wigan
https://www.visitnorthwest.com › wigan

https://www.visitwigan.com/Blogs/2022/Unearthing-the-History-of-Wigan-Town-Centre.aspx

Wigan’s industrial significance

Throughout the industrial revolution, Wigan was an important market town with many materials and commodities produced by its residents, including coal, pewter goods and clocks. With the opening of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1779, Wigan gained further importance as a hub for the transportation of coal from Lancashire mines to other major towns along the canal’s route.

In the 1800s, the town became a major centre of textile manufacturing, with eight cotton mills in the town by 1818. Alongside this, it still retained its reputation as a coal mining region, with a total of 54 collieries, which accounted for one sixth of all the collieries in Lancashire.

Wigan Pier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan_Pier

Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous or ironic connotations since it conjures an image of a seaside pleasure pier, whereas Wigan is inland and a traditionally industrial town. 

Trencherfield Mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencherfield_Mill

Trencherfield Mill is a cotton spinning mill standing next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It was built in 1907. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. The mill was driven by a 2,500 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine built by J & E Wood of Bolton in 1907. Wikipedia
Trencherfield steam engine
https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Museums-archives/Trencherfield-Mill-Engine.aspx
Location Wigan Pier, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Serving canal Leeds and Liverpool Canal


Swan and Railway hotel  (listed building)
https://swanandrailwayhotelwigan.co.uk/
Built in 1898 this beautiful Victorian pub on Wigan's Wallgate, immediately opposite North Western Station and just a hundred yards from Wallgate station stands proud retaining many of its original features including a splendid tiled drinking corridor.

Wigan Wallgate railway station
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wigan_Wallgate_railway_station
Wigan Wallgate railway station - Wikipedia
1888 On 1 October 1888, the L&YR opened a new line from Pendleton in Salford via Atherton to Hindley. This provided a faster, more direct route for trains from Manchester and avoided the busy bottleneck around Bolton station.

Old post office building
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101384547-head-post-office-wigan-central-ward
Moot Hill Chambers
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=4&id=26107&page=1
Wigan redevelopment site
https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Council/Projects/Galleries25/Galleries-redevelopment.aspx
John Bull Chophouse
https://johnbullchophousewigan.co.uk/

Gerrard Winstanley
English reformer and activist (1609-1676)

Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England. Winstanley was the leader and one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers. The group occupied formerly common land that had been privatised by enclosures and dug them over, pulling down hedges and filling in ditches, to plant crops. Wikipedia
Born October 19, 1609, Parish of Wigan, Lancashire, England
Age at death 66 years

Billy Boston 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boston

The famous Pagefield
https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/4193

Eckersley Mill (apartments and hotel plans)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-66653156

Dover lock inn fire
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/road-shut-firefighters-tackle-huge-22430727

Old Rebellious Not Out Shop
 https://old-rebellious-not-out.myspreadshop.co.uk/