Wigan Album

My father in law bought a monks bench fron there, about 1980. We carried it back to Wrightington St, weighed a ton.

Formerly Preston's furniture salesroom.

A good pic of the school I went to....a long, long time ago!

what school was it.Helen.My mum went to a school in dicconson street.when she lived in a yard at the back of the roebuck hotel.

It was The Wesleyan School ( Methodist), only school in Dicconson St to my knowledge Betty.

Then that was the school my mum went to.She also went to st paul,s sunday school as well.She got a few books that where prizes as well for good attendance.I still have them upstairs in a cupboard dated between 1931 to 1936.

I also went to The Methodist School, Wigan and to St. Paul's Congregational Church Sunday School. Happy, happy days. the headmistress, Miss Wilcox was an absolute tyrant but she had a heart of solid gold.

My dad used to own the chesterfields house furniture. So sad the building was pulled down.

This was the primary school my older brother Jim and i went to between 1925 (approx) and 1950. Ian McKellen was my best friend at that school. Close friends were the late Garreth Johns, also David Boardman. I recall Peter Kaye tying yup a teacher. The door arch on the right was inscribed "Ye Olde War Den" and the central window lit the cloakroom where I once found girls queuing up to kiss David Boardman (I envied him!) The rest of the school was upstairs. The ground floor was continuous with the girl's (east) and boy's (West) playgrounds, but during the war the covered areas were separated from the open yards by red brick walls - presumably to form air raid shelter. The boys' playground was bounded to the west by a high wall. On the other side was St. John's Primary School. We called them "John's Bombers" because there were white cut-out images of war planes stuck to their window panes.