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Dicconson Street, Wigan

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Junction of Dicconson Street and Standishgate
Junction of Dicconson Street and Standishgate
Photo: Alan Tickle
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Item #: 17488
Junction of Dicconson Street and Standishgate, 1980s.

Comment by: Duncan on 6th April 2011 at 09:51

The old Co-op Emporium and Drill Hall both sadly missed, Connect was in the old Co-op in the early eighties, remember buying a radio casette player there.

Comment by: Nicola Gaskell on 6th April 2011 at 15:59

I can't place it at all, what is the church down the bottom??

Comment by: RON HUNT on 6th April 2011 at 16:08

It's St George's church and its still there.

Comment by: Kenee on 6th April 2011 at 18:34

The old Co-op, you can just see the side entrance a few yards down, I used to go in there in the 60's, up a flight of stairs to the restaurant for lunch. Good 'home cooked' food, not the defrosted rubbish you get these days. Soup of the day, Roast dinners, fish & chips, apple crumble, apple pie with custard, jam roly poly - all delicious. The waitresses had proper black & white uniforms.

Comment by: wes knight on 6th April 2011 at 19:00

maxims is on the right

Comment by: Nicola on 6th April 2011 at 19:33

Brilliant! thanks!

Comment by: Duncan on 7th April 2011 at 10:51

Kenee, I remember the co-op restaurant there too, it was good. Even after they moved to Wigan Centre Arcade it was still good, another thing sadly missed.

Comment by: Carol Farmer on 8th April 2011 at 14:58

Maxims was Tiffanys in my day.

Comment by: Duncan on 9th April 2011 at 10:16

Carol, remember it was Tiffany's when it was first opened in the late 70s, the old Dog I'th Thatch pub was on the site before that.

Comment by: Fred Cunliffe on 19th April 2011 at 06:27

St.Georges church...I was christened,Confirmed,married there,and sang in the choir.....ah.. memories,thanks.

Comment by: philip hll on 19th July 2013 at 14:25

tiffanys opened in 1977 i think used to go. anybody got a photo by any chance never seen one.

Comment by: Derek Rudd on 9th December 2014 at 21:54

I remember this street when my dad used to take us through Wigan in the car. I also remember going on the rough car park at the back of Oliver Somers bicycle shop before the multistory was built.

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