OK, everybody knows this was the common name for the (North Ward?) Labour Club on Bryn Road.
But where does the nickname come from? Lists of old Ashton pubs don't mention it, so was it not a pub which became a club? Or what?
In fact, we all just called it the Drum, even when it was the Ashfield or whatever it turned into.

Unless I'm mistaken, the simple answer is that the pub that stood on the land before the club was called the Drum & Monkey.

You may like to look through these names and addresses in Bryn Road in 1926,i've looked but can't see anything of a Pub or Club called the Drum and Monkey




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Town: Ashton

Dougie.

Thank you for the list of residences in Bryn Road, it is amazing the number of owners who's occupation is given as 'collier.

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Maybe it was listed on Nicol Rd.

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Fascinating list, where does it come from - and is there anymore of it?

I've been in touch with a friend that I think uploaded it on Wigan World over two years ago(which I saved) to ask where he got it from so I may get back to you later about it

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Town: Ashton

It looks like an extract from Seed's Wigan & District Directory for 1925/6. There's a copy (for reference) in Ashton library - top shelf, third bay along from the Sure Start desk if memory serves...

Town: Ashton

Thanks for posting that directory list Dougie. I've seen it before, and it contains a lot of familiar names, including my great grandad John Ashton at 241.
The Drum would be on the even-numbered side of the street, and maybe it wasn't listed because nobody actually lived there? I believe it was in existence at that time, or soon after, although in an earlier building.
I've asked everybody I can think of and not come up with a convincing answer to how it came to be called the Drum.