Wigan Album
Mesnes Park, Wigan, July, 1969.
12 CommentsPhoto: Albert Short.
Item #: 25520
I can recognise you this time Albert. Nice photo. As I commented a few weeks ago there is a resemblance to your father.
Why would you call that children's corner - nothing there for children and it is fenced off. Should dog's be on leads in the park?
Please someone explain to me when someone posts a cracking picture of a man clearly proud of his children and rightly so, is then hyjacked about dogs being on leads.
Albert a lovely photo you must be proud .
where is the dog?
Happy days Albert.I still take my grandchildren to Mesnes Park and they enjoy it as much as I did.
Lovely photo Albert. Thing Maggie K has lost the plot. Not a dog in sight lol
Albert; Can`t place this `Children`s Corner`.
Who took the photo? Your wife?
Did you ever go bowling, putting or play tennis in Mesnes Park?
Ernest. As far as I can remember, it was further along the path from were those old toilets where. It is so long ago though, I am unable to be precise. Ernest I only played bowls occasionally with a few mates, nothing of any consequence. I left Wigan when I was thirty years of age, and lived twenty four years in Kent. Folkestone,and Rochester. I have now lived in Blackpool for the past twenty six years.
Sorry Ernest for missing out the answer to your other question. Yes, my wife, Veronica, took the photograph.
Thanks, Albert. I`ve been golfing since the early 60`s and joined Chorley Golf Club in 1964 and am still a member but have my pair of bowls together with jack in a canvas case from Thomas Taylor, Glasgow in 1948. They cost £8-4-3 and delivery was 5 months.
Ernest. Now the canvas case would probably cost you three times the amount, that you paid for the whole lot.
Ernest - re the Children's Corner - if you walked along the path past Powell's statue towards the cafe, then turned left at the bottom of the steps leading to the cafe, the children's corner was on your right, before you came to the shelter/public toilets.