Wigan Album

Brilliant photo, never seen this one before

You're right about vandals Peter, Wigan was at that time and even later unique in its own way, now it's just like any other modernised town - all cloned with plastic and concrete by architects and developers.

Hi Cyril,
Completely agree.. although I prefer to use the term 'architects and planners' very loosely when referring to these people. Lunatics in charge of the asylum comes to mind.... Maybe they were brought up in a town that has a Rival Rugby team!!!!!

That was The National Blue Coat School just across the road on the left.My mum was a cleaner there.

I lived in this house (The Rectory Lodge) for 12 yrs....Dad was Verger at the Parish Church. The front was in Frog Lane and a proper bit of Wigan....whereas the BACK was like living in the countryside....woods, winding paths, rabbits....the lot...some lovely boyhood memories. The room over the gate (the window you see) was the bathroom, which could be a very chilly place in the winter !!

I saw on a old map posted by Ron, that this was referred to as School Lodge. For which School I can only speculate.

Cyril, your time there is more than very interesting, you should see if you can gain access to rekindle some memories and perhaps take a few pictures of the interior.
My aunty and uncle lived across the road in Richmond Street to the right opposite The National Blue Coat School that my two cousins went to in the 1950's.
Like many old pictures of the time, the streets always look clean, very little in the way of litter!