Login   |   Register   |   
Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan



Wigan Album

St Mary's, Ince

11 Comments

100 years old today
100 years old today
Photo: Rev David Long
Views: 5,618
Item #: 14694
Mrs Ethel Round (nee Boffey) pictured in 1975, the year before she retired after over 42 years teaching at St Mary's School. By this time the School had moved into the former Spring View School.
To mark her Centenary St Mary's Church has launched an appeal to install four stained glass windows in the former Infants' School on Warrington Road, which was converted into the church in 1978.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 2nd May 2010 at 17:52

I should have included today's date (May 2nd, 2010) for those who see this picture in the future.

Comment by: irene roberts nee griffiths on 3rd May 2010 at 10:19

I know Mrs. Round through Wigan Little Theatre. A lovely lady.

Comment by: Ruth G on 3rd May 2010 at 22:22

Congratulations to a well respected lady,Mrs Round, on reaching her 100'th birthday. Hope the appeal goes well Rev.Long.
Many families must have been taught by Mrs Round in her time at St. Mary's.

Comment by: Joanne on 7th May 2010 at 18:58

There is a recent WLT video on which Mrs. Round appears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AldmYqRVQ
She is a wonderful lady.

Comment by: Christine on 2nd August 2010 at 17:18

I was taught by Mrs. Round and so was may late father. She was a lovely teacher. Am I write in thinking that her name was once Miss. Tighe? I seem to remember my father saying something about it.

Comment by: Alan on 7th August 2010 at 21:49

Maiden name of Mrs Round before she married John was Boffey. She is a wonderful lady and amongst here achievements she a recipient of the Maundy Money when the Queen visited Liverpool Cathedral a number of years ago, she was in the last few years invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace and knowing Ethel would have out shone the Queen. An ambassador for Wigan. the Little Theatre and St Mary`s Church Lower Ince. What A Lady.

Comment by: Linda Housley Nee Higham on 5th September 2010 at 05:31

I remember Mrs Round she was lovely

Comment by: Albert Edward Short on 28th March 2011 at 09:54

mrs Round was one of my teachers'
Mrs Round was one of my teachers',during the war years,together with Miss Marsden. The school always had a very happy atmosphere.

Comment by: nadine maloney..nee, halliwell on 14th May 2011 at 16:48

i remember miss round, she was a lovely lady

Comment by: Diane Brown (Bushell) on 17th January 2021 at 18:00

She was my teacher at primary school

Comment by: Anne on 7th August 2022 at 07:36

One of my childhood friends was Mrs. Rounds niece, her mother being Mrs. Rounds sister Hilda. She her parents and grandmother, Mrs Rounds mother lived in Winifred street lower Ince.

Leave a comment?

* Enter the 5 digit code to the right of the input box. Don't worry if you make a mistake, you will get another chance. Your comments won't be lost.