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Where is this?
Where is this?
Photo: Adele Mullen
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Item #: 26787
Can anyone identify where this photo was taken. The little boy in the picture is my grandad so it would be around 1925. I would like to know the street name to help identify others in the photo. Thanks!

Comment by: a bolton on 30th August 2015 at 23:13

Could be the old drill hall in wigan....St Georges church in the background?

Comment by: GPW on 31st August 2015 at 08:24

would have thought this was a family photo, possibly showing his mother, grandparents and aunt, outside their house.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 31st August 2015 at 11:15

It appears to be the side view of a church, which has no grounds to it? (Like St Georges, but I don't think it is.) As Looking from Standishgate you see a front view of St. Georges church.

Comment by: Keith on 31st August 2015 at 13:45

If you know your great grandparents names you might find them in the 1911 Census, the chances are they could be in the same street as in the photograph.

Comment by: Adele on 31st August 2015 at 16:29

The lady behind is his mother, but we haven't seen the others in any other photos. It does look like a church behind with quite distinctively shaped windows. I've looked at St George's but it doesn't seem to be there. We were thinking somewhere in Ince or Hindley most likely but have drawn a blank. Thanks for suggestions.

Comment by: Carol on 1st September 2015 at 08:01

I agree with GWP about it being a family photo. Can you give us your great grandmother's name, we then may be able to find some links on ancestry.

Comment by: Barry H on 3rd September 2015 at 12:56

St Georges it is , i can recognise the window on church , lived near here for 25 yrs ,

Comment by: GPW on 4th September 2015 at 13:52

Cannot see this as St George's in water street, the church doesn't have any buttresses as seen to the left hand side of the window

Comment by: Dave Lewis on 26th February 2019 at 14:48

This looks like a street off park road going up to sacred heart club.

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