Wigan Pier
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wigan Pier by Stephen Keenan as part of the Geograph project.
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Wigan Pier
Image: © Stephen Keenan Taken: 20 Jun 2014
The original "pier" was a coal loading staithe, probably a wooden jetty, where wagons from a nearby colliery were unloaded into waiting barges on the canal. Wigan pier was a “Tippler”. Coal laden trucks, or tubs, from nearby collieries would travel down tracks to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. They would hit the jetty and tipple (topple over), unloading the coal into the waiting barges. The pier here was connected to Winstanley Colliery and became known as the Wigan Tippler or Wigan Pier.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.541979
Longitude
-2.643404