Wigan Album

This photograph was taken a little lower down from The Scholes Picture House. The buildings in shot, from right to left, Cusani's Fruit Shop
, Mc Avoy's Butchers , The Angel Hotel, then on the opposite corner of Wellington Street The Shamrock Hotel.

I have put Joe Wood but he may be Bob Wood.

Those were the days when there was a bobby at the front and one at the rear. No "elf an safety" rubbish then. Today, the same walking day would cost a couple of grand to police.

As a child in the fifties I remember the life boys..what did they do? Were they like the scouts or boys brigade? Are they disbanded ? I've never heard of them since

Gerry, young boys enrolled in the Life Boys up to the age of eleven or twelve and then enrolled in the Boys Brigade, both were church run organisations, when you joined the Boys Brigade you could join the band, it was all good fun and it gave you something to do.

Thank you Harry, so lifeboys were to the Boys brigada as cubs are to scouts in each case a younger version of each.