Wigan Album

Where exactly on standishgate was this? It looks really familiar but I can't place it.

What was England's? Was it a store?

I,m not sure,but did it turn into C & A.

It is next to Burtons going towards Marks and Spencer. I have an idea that it became Mothercare at one point. I think it sold leather goods(handbag type leather goods, that is!)

The good old days when you could park on Standishgate - one side on even dates, the other side on odd dates. Good shot of the Hillman Minx.

I don't remember this store at all..it does look like the C.A's shop front but!!!!.

derekb is right but did it later become Salisbury's?

If you go to page 8 of the current photos of Wigan album there is a picture of Standishgate in the 60s and Englands is clearly on it next to Burton's. On closer inspection of the window display in this picture it looks as if it was a shoe shop.

Had a look Derekb..it's weird..I don't remember that at all.

Tricia, if you go to the picture I mentioned on page 8 of the current album, there is a shop named Salisburys between Burton's and England's which I now think was the shop which sold leather goods. I have an idea that Burton's extended to take over the space which Salisbury's occupied.

Though I do vaguely remember the shop only because it had a doorway you could shelter in from the rain, I can't remember what they actually sold, on the photo what Derek suggested I remember the shops either side, Nicoll was a shoe shop and Salisbury's sold leather bags as my sister went into those shops.

Cyril, I don't remember Englands,but Nicholls was not a shoe shop. It sold ladies coats (my aunt worked there), and was next door to Marks & Spencers. When it closed (possibly mid '60s) M&S bought the land, and extended their shop space.

Oh right Helen thanks for the information, maybe it was Englands as Derek says that was the shoe shop, time surely does play tricks on your memory, was the coats they sold modern for the younger ladies or were they for the more mature, I'm only asking as maybe my sister went in there for a coat, Wigan wasn't blessed with trendy boutiques back then.

Like Helen,I don't remember Englands at all;---at first sight, I thought Timpsons,the shoe shop,but that was on the side opposite M&S and the store resembled Timpsons.I can remember buying a pair of tan shoes there in about 1957.

Like Helen,I don't remember Englands at all;---at first sight, I thought Timpsons,the shoe shop,but that was on the side opposite M&S and the store resembled Timpsons.I can remember buying a pair of tan shoes there in about 1957.

It was as shoe shop
Among other branches-
A section of Stockport Road in the late 1960s ... Other shops included
a laundromat; Chicle, a shoe shop; Burgess, the ... Next to the bank was
Timpsons Shoes, Playfair, a UCP Tripe Shop, Melias and Englands "Smart
Shoes".

Cyril, Nicholls was by no means a 'trendy boutique', but sold coats for all ages. I remember Mum buying me a very modern 'swing back' coat from there when they were all the rage, but they also sold coats for the more mature woman, and fur coats too. That wouldn't be very PC now methinks! Going back to the photo, the shop front looks remarkably like Timpsons, which had an arcade with a display window in the centre just like the one in the picture.