Wigan Album

How a shopping town should look, full of character.

This is how I remember it so well. Any idea of the date?

This is the Wigan I remember so well. Thanks for posting,Darren.

The year looks late 40s early 50s, but that's just a guess.

Car makers/dealers used to say "you can have any colour has long has it's black"...here's proof.

Wonderfull....used to travel on the no.5 bus to Graham Farm terminus down that road.....ah memories.....:-).

I agree with Colin Harlow and would date this late 40s/early 50s. The Corporation bus coming up Standishgate is a post WW11 model. It would appear to be pre 1953 since Pendleburys frontage looks to be the pre-fire one. I know it is not conclusive proof of the time since they were in short supply on the domestic scene immediately after the war, but not one of the cars in the photo is a post war model. I would lean towards it being the late forties.

Agreed all round. So much better than impersonal Robin- Park-type Retail Outlets any day. A lovely, bustling town centre scene.

We were watching an episode of Frost on tv last night, and he walked through a shopping centre, and it could have been anywhere around here. All shopping centres look the same nowadays. There's nothing that makes any of them different or you would recognise as a certain town. Boring. Horrible and a pile of old rubbish. Why do councils and those in authority keep mending what aint broken? Greed.

for attention of DEREK W.WADSWORTH. Hi there can you tell me do you know the name of that store next to WOOLWORTH'S ON RIGHT OF YOUR PHOTO would help solve a question thank you in anticipaction.