Wigan Album
Highfield Junior School
15 Comments
Photo: fred foster
Item #: 4208
Good photo Fred,would this have been in the 'new' boys school over in the old nursery? Any chance of putting Blundell Arms on? Please?!
George Millard was the son of James Millard local Wigan photographer who took numerous photographs in and around Wigan. See picture of him and his shop in:- Places, Market St.
the boy on the second row, 4th from the left was Charlie Fairbrother, who had a gents outfitters in Newtown. The picture was in the old infants school, which became the nursery and is now a Pupil Referral Centre. I went to that school as a boy and the teachers were the Misses, McAvoy, Broomhall. Starkey and Simm. The Head Teacher was Miss Holland.
Hi Fred, I the same teachers in 1946. i remember having to go to bed for an hour at sometime in the day.
I remember going to bed every afternoon. we had green sheets and pillowcases. We had to take them home to be washed at the end of term.I volunteered to take a sick child's washing home and as a result both I and my brother got measles from contact with the bedding!!
are you sure the boy 4th left on middle row was charlie fairbrother? it looks very much like my father william alker
I was mistaken over the boy, charlie fairbrother is the 5th left
thanks Fred. have seen this photo before and was always told this 4th left, 2nd row was dad.
brilliant Fred.I think this is the earliest picture of my dad back row second boy from right
Fred I have read all your detailed account of life in your early years with great interest. Now these photos interest me.My dad Willie Ainscough should have been there at the time of this photo.I do not see him.Any explanation will help.Roy
Fred I have read all your detailed account of life in your early years with great interest. Now these photos interest me.My dad Willie Ainscough should have been there at the time of this photo.I do not see him.Any explanation will help.Roy
FREDI am keen to pursue details of these early pictures. How do Ithis?Roy
Fred Having revisited this suspect that my dad may be back row third from right. Any help?
Roy