Login   |   Register   |   
Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan



Wigan Album

Aspull Secondary School

25 Comments

Aspull Secondary School, c1965
Aspull Secondary School, c1965
Photo: David Pilkington
Views: 13,790
Item #: 4688
Aspull Secondary School, c1965

Comment by: Evelyn on 18th January 2008 at 23:38

Middle row 4th from the right --- is that Joan Timpany?

Comment by: David Turner on 18th February 2008 at 11:20

I have a feeling the girl 4th from right in middle row could be Stella Gregory. David Pilkington is 2nd from left on front row.

Comment by: norman ball on 9th March 2008 at 18:54

is the teacher on this photo mr.sutton maths teacher

Comment by: David Turner on 2nd May 2008 at 11:34

Yes Norman. It is David Sutton who was a very good maths teacher. He used to smoke like a chimney.

Comment by: Eunice Cadman( nee Schofield) on 9th July 2008 at 12:01

3rd right is my friend Joan Timpany

Comment by: eddie fishwick on 9th August 2008 at 20:53

the girl second left back row,
carol heyes is rugby player andy farrells mam

Comment by: Andrew on 18th August 2008 at 22:53

I never knew aspull had a secondary school. Where abouts was it. And what is there now. Any help Appreciated.

Comment by: jet on 6th October 2008 at 18:19

I left Aspull School in 72 it was a great school had some good laughs there.

Comment by: Steve Turner on 7th October 2008 at 20:15

Andrew, The school was on Ratcliffe rd, were all the recent new houses are.
I left Aspull at Easter 1970.
Teachers i can recall, Mr Firth, Betty Eastwood, George Seddon, John Wilkie, Mr Mathews & Fat Head.

Comment by: jean prior on 8th March 2009 at 21:34

I left Aspull Secondary in 1965 but I think the tall girl in the middle row is Carol Blinkhorn, If you ever watch nation on film I am the woman talking about school in the 60's also Mr Wardle who went to be headmaster at Rose Bridge, as I've lost my school Photo I would much appreciate if anyone has a copy to let me copy it in my class was Anne Barstow (now Charnock) Pat Hill, Jennifer Jones,Joan Gaskell Linda Deakin, Linda Barnes, Carol Armer,Shirley Thompson Maureen Webber, Maurice Evans Thomas Corfield, David McAndrew, Trevor Farrimond, Michael Coyle etc please if you have a copy let me know (my mum was the cook in charge Mrs Prior)

Comment by: Jean Clarkson on 27th August 2009 at 11:37

Oh my goodness, i just had a look at this.
I am in the middle of the back row, and my friend Kathy Wilson is next to me 2nd from the right.
The last time I saw her in 1986 she was living in Spain

Comment by: Carolyn WHITTLE on 30th October 2010 at 17:54

The boy last on right middle row, is my cousin Graham Naylor who unfortunatley passed away a few years ago. Lovely boy

Comment by: Hazel on 5th January 2011 at 21:57

I remember quite a few faces on this photo.
I left Aspull in 66 having stayed to a 5th year.

Comment by: Gary Leece on 5th August 2011 at 00:00

My parents lived in Bolton Road and knew David Sutton and his wife well - he was dead within seven years of this photo: lung cancer.A really pleasant man; lived in Ashton in Makerfield, ex Royal Navy.

Comment by: Walt (Nth Yorks) on 2nd October 2011 at 18:13

I also remember Mr Sutton, (never say "can I" , always say - "may I") he was a stickler for perfection, taught me practical drawing, sadly, I only realised just how good a teacher he was after I had left school, that was back in 1962.

Comment by: Julie Melling (Izzard at school) on 13th January 2012 at 13:58

Mr. Sutton, was a great teacher, brilliant mathematician and a totally great person, he taught me at Junior school, in New Springs and went up to Aspull with me when we all moved. He lived near my cousin in Ashton, and for his sins we dubbed him King Dithers, unfortunate nickname, but we loved him.

Comment by: m barker on 17th March 2012 at 22:12

Can anyone name the boys on the front row?

Comment by: eddie fishwick on 20th March 2012 at 19:11

front row left to right john lee david pilkington brian reeves
david turner mike brown not sure paul weston eric leyland
peter lomax

Comment by: derek smith on 26th June 2012 at 12:06

Second row from the left I think Fred Marsden and Dorothy Grimes

Comment by: Arthur Blinkhorn on 15th August 2012 at 08:10

The girl fifth from the left in the middle row is my sister Carol. If anyone knows where she is tell her to send me an email.

Comment by: karen lomax on 21st August 2012 at 21:48

my brother Peter Lomax (bottom row 1st on the right) the year I was born ha ha

Comment by: pete smith on 4th December 2013 at 02:40

hi eddy Fishwick.I think the lad you said as Paul Weston was Phil Naylor. came from red rock ??

Comment by: peter lomax on 22nd May 2014 at 19:21

Graham naylor best friend for 4years,lad third from the right front row is phillip whitter from redrock,peterlomax.

Comment by: Ed on 15th March 2019 at 13:46

Does anyone from this school know anyone from the caine family from st johns road.two sisters one was called irene and heryounger sister was called evonne.

Comment by: Willow on 9th January 2024 at 02:56

To Ed:
I didn’t go to this school because I lived in Hindley but my mum, her siblings and my grandparents lived at 23 St John’s Road Aspull next door to Mrs Annie Caine and her daughters. I think Yvonne married a man by the surname of Brown, sorry can’t think of his first name. In the early nineties Yvonne and her husband had a shop on Market Street in Hindley, which sold bread, pies, cooked meats and roasted chicken. I think they may have lived in Hindley Green. I don’t know what happened to them after that. They were a nice family.

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.