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The 1845 windpump at Haigh as it looked about 1900 before "restoration" - notice how many original features have disappeared. (I'm happy for this to be a supplemental image, especially as I wasn't around to take it - it's just an interesting contrast to the current state of the building)
©Gareth Hughes
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>Wind power provided a convenient means of pumping water from a well inside its base to Haigh Brewery half a mile away. Built in 1845. This recently restored beauty is just to the South of Copperas Lane
©David Hignett
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©Anthony Parkes
Dist:0.4km<br/>Originally used to power a pump for a local brewery
©Dave Green
Dist:0.4km<br/>Quite the largest loft I've ever seen. Difficult to believe it's the first on the site - only dovecots are listed.
©David Long
Dist:0.4km<br/>A quick "about turn" and we have the Balcarres Arms at the top of the road. The structure on the left hand side of the photograph is the Lychgate for St Davids church.
©Jimmy Reeves
Dist:0.4km<br/>I'm stood in Haigh looking down to Aspull. The pub is the Red Lion and the church a bit lower down is Our Lady's R.C.
©Jimmy Reeves
Dist:0.4km<br/>South view, from the bottom of the church's extensive graveyard.
©David Long
Dist:0.4km<br/>Originally used to power a pump for a local brewery
©Dave Green
Dist:0.4km<br/>The 575 bus from Bolton turns off Haigh Road into St David's Crescent.
©David Long
Dist:0.4km<br/>To be found at the house opposite the Red lion
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.5km<br/>Consecrated 28/11/1833, architect T Rickman. Chancel by Medland Taylor added 1886.
©S Parish
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©ray blow
Dist:0.5km<br/>This type of pictorial sign is being erected around Wigan Borough, largely at the request of local people, to mark the many separate communities, often old mining villages originally, which make up the modern Metropolitan Borough. The design is also often chosen after local consultation. Some show more imagination than others. Many share a common fault - the posts to which they are fixed straddle part of the pavement. They are too narrow to allow easy access between the posts, and yet are wide enough to leave inadequate space on the rest of the pavement for, say, a mother with a pram. Mothers bringing children to St David's School, to the left of the pub, may well have discovered this by now.
©David Long

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