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Weind 1974
Weind 1974
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 21227
Photograph submitted by Marguerite Isherwood. showing a view of the Weind in 1974

Comment by: irene roberts on 9th August 2012 at 14:25

I can honestly say I wish it still looked like that. There is a sign at the bottom of the wiend, on Market Place, proclaiming to visitors to Wigan: "Wiend...Historic Shopping Street", and when you go up it all you see is that awful glass box of a library and the 'orrible 'ead!

Comment by: Dave Marsh on 9th August 2012 at 16:16

Had any a good 'crop' from Mr Lyon the barber.

Comment by: Maureen Andrews nee McGovern on 9th August 2012 at 16:55

Oh, if only wishes could turn back time..every photo evokes lovely memories.

Comment by: Thomas(Tom)Walsh. on 9th August 2012 at 17:11

The Ladbrokes shop was originally opened by Joe Kennedy.Harry Jones gents shop you could order made to measure shirts (how posh was that),
The barbers I think was Russ Lyons,higher up,out of shot was the famous
Tickles craft Shop.

Comment by: irene roberts on 9th August 2012 at 17:39

Whalley's pet shop used to be up here and there was often a parrot outside in a cage.

Comment by: maggie on 10th August 2012 at 11:43

I remember Tickles Up 'Weind. What did they sell, & where was it?

Comment by: Maureen Andrews nee McGovern on 10th August 2012 at 14:56

Maggie Tickles was a haberdashery..it was like walking into Aladdins cave..and that barbers shop was the first shop in Wigan to hang a photo of Marilyn Monroe in the nude..you couldn't walk up there then for the amount of lads peering in the window...the little devils.

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