Wigan Album
St Catharine's
7 CommentsPhoto: John A Hankin
Item #: 18419
Another great photo John,not just of yourself your Mum and others but of the old Scholes of years gone by.I can hardly remember those buildings,but they are of great interest.
Another wonderfully nostalgic pic and very clear. Considering it was a time of austerity I think the ladies have a distinctive and admirable dress style - the kids are also very well turned out - a great credit to their parents.
John, I used to live next door to you on Scholefield Lane! Great pictures, I was in the Girl Guides in late 60's
I remember you and your family. The dog's name was Sally wasn't it? Mum will be 87 this year and remembers you all but Dad diesd in 2004. It seems such a long time ago and times were much happier and simpler then, or I am only remembering only the good times? Can't forget the pea soupers though. Scholes has never been the same since the council demolished it in the late 1960s. Nice to hear from you.
Yea John, Sally, I can just remember her. My mum is in the schools section from when she was a lollypop lady at St. Catherines. Both my parents are gone, right characters the both of them, both in their 80's. So many memories from those times, I look back at the homes we lived in then, with no bathrooms and an outside loo. The house was freezing in winter and in one of the coldest winters ever, they lost their twins babies. Oh dear, how dreadful. Not always happy days those times.
Hi Jean, I remember the twins dying which was probably in the winter of1963 which was very cold. The houses were cold with ice forming on the inside of the windows! Then there was the outside toilet too which froze up in winter. God old days weren't they? Didn't your dad have shotguns? George Conroy's greengocers was next door to us on the corner of Nevile St and Scholefield Lane with Holands off licence on the other corner. Sherringtons hardware store was further down Scolefield Lane on the corner with Scholes. Next door to you was Mrs Davies' "corner" shop that sold virtually everything from what was in effect their front room. Things were so much simpler then.
Yea it was 1963, been to the grave today, Mum n Dad are in the same grave now and both would be 85 this week. I remember the shops well. They had a material sun shade thing that hung down the window and you had to go under it to choose the sweets. There was the 'posters', where we used to climb up at the back of them. Chalking hopscotch on the flags. Walking on cans with strings tied to them to hold onto, like stilts, oh the list goes on. Yea dad had shotguns, he's happiest days spent on the marshes I beleive.