Wigan Album

The church shown. Is it the methodist church that was rebuilt,after being destroyed by a German bomb, during world war 2.Situated at the top of Greenough Street?

Albert,yes that is/was the rebuilt church in Greenough St. behind the Windmill pub which itsellf fronted onto Scholes.

This is brilliant....walking day captured perfectly! People crowding the pavements, and even taking chairs out to claim a comfortable seat and a good view. Walking Day had its own special atmosphere in those days....a feeling of expectation in the air, the heady smell of fresh flowers in little posies, people running into the road to give children threepenny-bits or sixpences, ice-cream vans vying for the best "speck" as those precious coins were spent on cornets. A boiled-ham tea followed by jelly and custard, and my Auntie Mary putting on a posh voice.....and all because it was Walking Day.....Magic!

That was a stroke of luck.the bomb missed the pub and the chipshop next door!

If the sergeant had been facing the camera when the photograph had been taken,I would have recognized him. Pity.

What memories this picture evokes. Having grown up in Scholes (Golborne St and Scholefield Lane) I assume this is the RC Whit walk held on Whit Monday. It was certainly an occasion when me and my mates sat on the wall just around the corner in Scholes, in front of the advertising hoardings. What were the shops on either side? My memory as gone blank. I know Poulson's confectioners shop was quite near there. There was always a brass band from St Helens walking that played "when the saints go marching in" all the way up from Central Park and again in Scholes. We used to boo and jeer when they marched past. Even though we weren C of E we all enjoyed it. I remember my mum and dad used to go into the Mount Pleasant pub in Scholefield Lane after the walk had finished with the rest of the family and have a good sing song and my Gt Uncle John Molyneux (Linney St)made a hot pot supper and we finished off the day in party mood. Nowt like that these dayas.

wonderful memories,which are gone forever,

What a gem of a photograph. Captures the essence of the event perfectly!

I Used To Live In Linney Street I Knew John Molyneux We Lived Opposite To Him At No 34

Joe, thanks for the comment. Only Marion and Joyce of Gt Uncle John's children are still living. I spent many happy hours at Gt Uncle John's and just remember his mum Jane, she died when I was about five I think. Used to mate with Alan Cherry who lived next door. We were members of St Catharine's BB and I am sure you would recollect the Sunday parades and walking days when we marched up from Platt Lane Mission to Church and back again. Great days.