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If this is Coops the tailoring company, then my Mum worked there during the mid 1940's. I believe it was her first job on leaving school

Beryl, it is the factory your mum worked at as did my wife in the late 1960s early 70s

Not much changed today....

I had a Coops-made suit. It was a good un!

A cutter at Coops used to supply suit lengths to a tailoress based close to the Little Theatre. The cloth wasn’t accompanied by a despatch note or invoice. Sally, the tailoress,made up very good suits from good quality cloth at a most reasonable price. I availed myself of the service a couple of times.
Some years later the managing director of Coops and myself served on a Wigan Council committee. I mentioned the cloth business to him. He said they knew who the guy was but could never catch him in the act . Apparently he was so efficient in using a roll of cloth to make up a batch of suits he could squeeze an extra suit length out of it.

I remember going in the Coops building in the 70's I think .... It was an outlet of sorts - but I can't recall what was sold there. I know there was a lot of stairs to climb. Does anybody else remember?

The upstairs area of the building on the left became Gee’s School of Dancing. Three mates, and I, had several lessons, prior to a wakes week, away, in Douglas, I.O .M. Finished up pretty confident, with a quick step,, and a waltz, managed a foxtrot, doing a slow quick step.

I always thought Gee's school of dancing was opposite the churchyard in King Street West,I'm sure the old painted words on the wall could be seen from the road.

Elizebeth. See 20748. Street scenes. King Street West.

Sorry Albert,you are right.I wasn't looking properly !!

Elizabeth, Gee's School of Dancing's writing CAN still be seen, very vaguely, on the back of a building in King Street West.

Albert - but did your dancing skills enable you to pull the birds?

Having seen one or two photos of the gentleman Rev. I don't think he would have had any problems courting the ladies...

It sure did pay dividends, Reverend, and in the process, it certainly cost me a bob, or two. I was eventually successful in my choice. We will soon have been married fifty eight years. Deo Gratis.