NathanCroucher wrote:Is there any decent Rugby League films? This Sporting Life is a decent kitchen sink drama and there is the dreadful Up 'n' Under but other than that is there fictional Rugby League films?
British not really, I can recall a mini series or film called the First Kangaroos that Dennis Waterman was in.
Australian, Final Winter is watchable. Matty Johns and a few others are in that.
MrDave wrote:Perhaps slightly off this topic but does anyone know where I can get hold of the plans for Central Park with stand measurement etc.
very ambitious
im sure the town hall will have the archives. FOI?
I don't think there will be any plans for Central Park, none that I know of anyway.
I used to work in the Architects Dept at Wigan Council and we had all sorts of plans for different buildings around Wigan. The New Town Hall, Municipal Buildings and the Civic Buildings (planning dept) and the Civic Centre (concrete monstrosity). I never came across any plans of Central Park, trust me I tried. The plans would have originally been submitted to the planning dept but when the Council totally refurbished the Civic Buildings next to the old gas showrooms nearly everything was binned. It's a long shot and I don't know where you would start, but if you could find out who built Central Park and who the Architects were, you could start there. Having said that, the chances are that the Architectural Practice that designed Central Park has long since disappeared.
The Wigan Council Architects Dept doesn't even exist any more, they were "sold off" as part of the departmental privatisation in the late '90's. They are now in a new purpose built building near the investment centre and they now trade under the company name NorthWest Property Services.
MrDave wrote:Perhaps slightly off this topic but does anyone know where I can get hold of the plans for Central Park with stand measurement etc.
very ambitious
im sure the town hall will have the archives. FOI?
I don't think there will be any plans for Central Park, none that I know of anyway.
I used to work in the Architects Dept at Wigan Council and we had all sorts of plans for different buildings around Wigan. The New Town Hall, Municipal Buildings and the Civic Buildings (planning dept) and the Civic Centre (concrete monstrosity). I never came across any plans of Central Park, trust me I tried. The plans would have originally been submitted to the planning dept but when the Council totally refurbished the Civic Buildings next to the old gas showrooms nearly everything was binned. It's a long shot and I don't know where you would start, but if you could find out who built Central Park and who the Architects were, you could start there. Having said that, the chances are that the Architectural Practice that designed Central Park has long since disappeared.
The Wigan Council Architects Dept doesn't even exist any more, they were "sold off" as part of the departmental privatisation in the late '90's. They are now in a new purpose built building near the investment centre and they now trade under the company name NorthWest Property Services.
Another problem will be the fact that CP changed many times over the years, from when it was just "Joe Hill's field" in 1902, with players changing in a nearby pub and no stands or terracing.
MrDave wrote:Perhaps slightly off this topic but does anyone know where I can get hold of the plans for Central Park with stand measurement etc.
very ambitious
im sure the town hall will have the archives. FOI?
I don't think there will be any plans for Central Park, none that I know of anyway.
I used to work in the Architects Dept at Wigan Council and we had all sorts of plans for different buildings around Wigan. The New Town Hall, Municipal Buildings and the Civic Buildings (planning dept) and the Civic Centre (concrete monstrosity). I never came across any plans of Central Park, trust me I tried. The plans would have originally been submitted to the planning dept but when the Council totally refurbished the Civic Buildings next to the old gas showrooms nearly everything was binned. It's a long shot and I don't know where you would start, but if you could find out who built Central Park and who the Architects were, you could start there. Having said that, the chances are that the Architectural Practice that designed Central Park has long since disappeared.
The Wigan Council Architects Dept doesn't even exist any more, they were "sold off" as part of the departmental privatisation in the late '90's. They are now in a new purpose built building near the investment centre and they now trade under the company name NorthWest Property Services.
Another problem will be the fact that CP changed many times over the years, from when it was just "Joe Hill's field" in 1902, with players changing in a nearby pub and no stands or terracing.
