Wigan Album

See what did I say the other day....a few days wonder before it disappears. What was the purpose of putting it there, obviously denoting some music went on in King St at some time....surplus to reqirements today.

It has greatly changed since I walked it as part of my beat in the late fifties, and very early sixties

The filthiest street in Wigan.

All that matters now is money ! Money against History will always go to the former . This is all I have been trying to say , you cannot stop this flowing river called Change ! You can either get on the boat or choose not to .
I am 100% WW , but I also recognise that our future Helen , is now in the hands of snowflakes . Good or Bad ! But , life unfortunately, does not move backwards. I wish it did ..

Powers that be could get their act together Julie & stop wasting money !

No wonder there's traffic jams

It does move back, go and visit Museums.

Well I for one would rather have the street as it was years ago - ne'er mind change- it is a diabolical mess! ( especially on weekend nights)

When Wigan Council allowed all these nightclubs in King St they probably thought it would be very chic and select to copy from the big cities. For example Annabell's and Bougies where the royals go in London. Instead it's the exact opposite - sleazy clubs with half dressed girls sitting in the middle of the road. I witnessed this myself after a train journey to Edinburgh and having left my car in Hardybutts a few years ago. It unnerved me to walk down there - I thought of 'Sodom and Gommorah' looking at the crowds of lads and girls. It was horrible - never done that since. It was only 10'o' clock at night and still light!

The building on the right which has a sign "Maloneys" had a gym on the top floor run by the NCB for miners who had been injured. at work.I went there after smashing my left hand in 1962. If you went to the baths afterwards, you got a ticket for a meal at the Savoy chippie on the market square, for half a crown

If you look closely at the pavement mural, it is actually disintegrating, it had worn out with all the walking being done on it day and night, so the Council removed it.

I'd go back to the 1960s right now.

This street has probably seen them all! Teds, Rockers. Mods.
Hippies. Punks. Goths. The kids don't seem to be 'anything' today. What happened to 'youth culture'?

Well, it was obviously a sculpture that wasnt fit for the purpose...so a waste of money.

I notice some young lads wearing tight trousers with the gussets really low down and a strange hairstyle as opposed to shaved heads. I wondered if they are a ' different' group? Also seem to wear black mostly - perhaps a kind of updated 'Goth'?