Wigan Album

My how times have changed. Lovely shot.

The two little girls ( sisters) on the end look like children from John St Scholes but they went to St Pat's... The last names were Penman. The little one was called Betty - if it isn't them they are identical.

Yes John you're right how times have changed...in ten years time, kids will be wearing hi-viz coats at parties.
Great photo Ron.

Notice all the kids are drinking tea not the sugar laden soft drinks of today.

Good point Ron.

The sisters? almost certainly have identical cardi's Veronica. And the bi-coloured sash overlaid down the centre of the tablecloth could go some way in answering Ron's query.

What I meant Philip was, the two children are identical to the ones I remember. The little one had blonde hair and the older one was very dark.

Love this photo....a vanished time.

No problem Veronica . . . For'ard.

The more I look a the photo the more I see I bet these children thought they were sitting down to a Banquet and I bet there was nothing left on their plates.. They had nothing compared to today's kids but they were a lot happier.

I bet when they had eaten their 'paste' butties and drank their tea , some kind ladies would come round with Jelly and fairy cakes to finish off! I remember when it was party time at school we would all have to bring something - I always took a red jelly in a cut glass bowl!

From a time when children looked and acted like children not clones of their parents with all the designer gear. Boys wore short pants up to the age of 11, (when they went to Senior school,) and the girls wore dresses. Thanks Ron for posting it

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't orange juice in those cups. Hot tea wasn't a favourite amongst young children in those days. And paper cups were pretty scarce. Anybody?

Water gulped from a Blue, Pink, or White plastic beaker for our crew during the early-fifties. The only foodstuff that I can recall is rice pudding and, also, how Miss/Mrs Harrison had shown one lad how to stir-in a spoonful of jam.

I thought at first it might be orange juice Jarvo but somehow I don't think they would have been drinking that from a cup and saucer at a tea- party......I don't suppose we'll ever know now anyway......

Ron: I am just making a wild guess here, but as most people remember large school gatherings or party's always revoled around church.
Because it's C E School it could be Easter or Trinity Sunday, These two events at my school took priority around April which also included St Georges day, and June.

Perhaps they are celebrating the end of food rationing.