Wigan Album

This photo must have been taken after 1900 because the lines for the tramcar can be seen

To the right of the pub, where the wide grass verge is, was there a bowling green ?

Stemul, I was born in this area. There was no bowling green to the right of the pub and fronting the road. At the time it was all terraced houses/shops. However, in th picture there is a sign immediately behind the old gaslamp and below the pub name saying that there is a bowling green available. Presumably, it was behind the pub.

the bowling greens where across the street to the right

Derek B. Roy Thompson is right on this, the bowling green was on the other side of the street. My memory let me down on the Whelley photo but I am sure on this. I think the landlords name was Oakes when I was young.

Ken, thanks for your comments of 25/4. I left Whelley when I was eight years old, but because one set of my grandparents lived in Ellis St, I visited on a regular basis until I was in my mid teens. Can you or anyone else make out the name of the pub's brewery in the photo? Although I never had a drink in there, I seem to recall that in the years before it was closed/demolished it was a Walkers house.

Derek B. It was Oldfields before it was Walkers.I think Walkers took over a lot of Oldfields pubs.

Ken, that ties in with my great great grandad Robert Ainscough being landlord in 1911, his daughter and son in law took over after his death in 1924, they were Fanny and Henry Oakes.

Bowling Green definately to the right across the road. Is that the Newsagents on the opposite corner (Ted's) I think..I had a paper round there for a few years

The land to the right was definitely the Dragon bowling green,situated between Perch St and Bedford St.Bob Oakes was the landlord in 50's and early 60's,then Dick Cartwright took over,followed by Jimmy Wharton

My grandad was Dick Cartwright and his wife (my grandma) was Nellie, spent a lot of time at that pub and I have loads of good memories. Yes the bowling green was on the right you had to cross the street to get to it. It was very popular in it's time.

I was born in the George in 1971. Jimmy and Irene Wharton are my mum and dad and where the landlord and landlady from the late 60s until 1973. Lovely to see the photograph.

The bowling green was definitely on the other side of the street. I was brought up just a bit further up on Whelley. Number 84 and the house is still there. In the late 50s\60s along with the Pagefield the George was a top venue for crown green bowling handicaps in Wigan and my dad used to take me to watch the top bowlers playing for quite tidy sums of money in those days. I knocked around with the young Bobby Oakes, the landlords son, for a time.

I was born next door to the George & Dragon in 1957 i was my grand parents house no 35 Shelley

Used to be my dad's local in 1960s - Bob Ashurst- lived in Vine Street- anybody remember him?

Used to be my dad's local in 1960s - Bob Ashurst- lived in Vine Street- anybody remember him?

Does anyone remember a landlord called Alan, wife Dorothy must have been after 1973, can't recall surname but I used to know their daughter Andrea