Wigan Album
DERBY TERRACE
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Photo: Frank Orrell
Item #: 29537
Just having a laugh at that Bond mini car, third from the left. You can see the railway bridges to the extreme right that carried the line to the Central railway station, then on Station road.
Ed let's NOT bore people.
Hi Alan,Car makes just for you. 1.Vauxhall Victor Estate Car
2. Bedford CA Van. 3.Bond Minicar. 4Singer Gazelle. 5.Ford,
Zodiac or Zephyr 4,Not sure. 6 Not Clear Enough.7.Morris Minor,could be Minor 1000. In order to start the engine of
the very early Bond Minicar, you lifted the bonnet, and
kickstarted the engine,just like a motorcycle.
Boredom is a reflection on yourself...have some tolerance for others who enjoy seeing the cars!!! That's what the photograph is for....isn't it?
Well said, Veronica! Peter busy tinkering with our old Hillman Minx as we speak but is looking forward to studying the pic later.
The engine in the Bond mini car were Villiers Two-stroke.
I suspect the forth car could well be a Sunbeam Rapier.
Howard, Please read the script,I have said that car 4 is
a Singer Gazelle. The 4 that you refer to is part of the
name of the Ford...Zephyr 4.
5th car IS a Ford!! 4th cars a Sunbeam.
Alan, The 4th car is most certainly a Singer Gazelle.
The Sunbeam Rapier radiator grille was more of a square shape.
Alan play nicely now! No arguing!
Dick you are Wrong!!!
The 4th car is definitely a Singer Gazelle, I would say the 5th one is a Ford Zodiac (the chrome grille extends round the headlight. Nobody has mentioned the group of cars between the houses and the flats. The one nearest the houses I can't make out, then there is a Triumph Herald, an Austin Cambridge/ Morris Oxford, an Austin A35 van (I think) and in front of that a Ford Anglia.
The last car in Derby Terrace looks like an Austin A40.Five 13 storey blocks of flats were built in this style with balconies, Derby, Crompton, Mannion, Brook, and Woodcock House. Woodcock House was the first built and is mearing completion.Brook House had a pub on the ground floor called the Waterwheel. Similar styled flats can be found in Wakefield, Yorkshire with four blocks in different parts of the town. Douglas House was the first block of flats in Wigan built around 1963, then the 15 storey trio at Worsey Mesnes, Dryden, Thackeray and Masefield House, 1965, that only lasted 26 years before demolition in 1991. Then there is Boyswell House built about 1969/70.
I was born in derby terrace what was names of roads of each end cheers