Wigan Album

What a cracking photo!!! The cameraman would have been standing on the site of my sisters shop where Platt st met walthew lane. I do not know if the shop was open when the snap was taken. The white pub at the top of the picture was my Dads favourite pub The Queens Arms

i rember platt st very well wer the car is joe &dave beven lived ther mrs beven ust 2 make treackel toffee on bonfire night grayam smith lived 4 doors up from joes and the conrlys lived at the other end were platt st bomy was ant it change now them were the days i wish thay were back

I lived in platt bridge for 29 years what a great photo forgot those houses were there on the right.

I lived in this street no 28.

Before the labour club was built and just at the back of it, was a small "flash" called t'brick croft. A tragedy took place there when a boy drowned (1940's) skating on the ice and it was later filled in. We used to play "hockey" on roller skates up and down Platt Street before there were any cars to speak of, using jackets for goal posts either end. (To give an idea of how few cars, we collected car numbers). The only person I knew then who lived in Platt Street was Reggie Goulding who was distantly related - he went to Holy Family School for a short while.

HI JEFF I REMEMBER YOU AND YOUR PETER WHEN YOU LIVED IN NEW ST.REGARDING THE PEOPLE IN PLATT ST.REGGIE GOULDING,PETER HEYES,JOE AND DAVE BEVAN,GRAHAM SMITH,THE BRICKCROFT WAS FILLED IN ABOUT 1956/57.EVERY ONE IN PLATT BRIDGE WAS COAL KEBBING WHEN IT WAS FILLED IN, CHIEF COAL KEBBER WAS RONNIE RALPHS,THERE WAS PLENTY BIG FIRES IN PLATT BRIDGE THAT WINTER, TO THE DISMAY OF THE COAL MEN,ARE THERE ANY EX COAL KEBBERS OUT THERE?.

My grandma Hannah Derbyshire was born at 24 Platt St in 1901

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I was born at 34 Platt St. Bevans lived on one side and Mrs Lindley (plus lodger )on the other side. Gouldings lived in the end house, reggies father and my grandma were brother and sister. I remember karen Swifts parents and also her aunty Maggie. Robert Harrison lived further up the road. Does anyone Know what happened to him?

my mum nd dad was irene nd alan i lived nxt door to joe beven i got knocked down outside king billy nd e was the 1st person i asked for

Platt Street in Platt Bridge in 1974 was just a side street, but now it is the main road. Wasn't it used as a short cut to avoid the traffic lights at the King Billy pub?