Wigan Album

I don't recall Gaskell's bread but remember Harvey's in New Springs , and Edwards'....there was an Edwards' Bakery in Platt Bridge and an "Excel" Bakery in Hindley when I went to school there, and the smell of baking bread in Platt Bridge and Hindley in the 1960s was mouthwatering! I remember Rathbones bread too, being advertised on the screen at The Ritz Cinema in Wigan in the Pearl and Dean adverts....."Buy Rathbones Gold-Medal Bread". Women wrapped their husbands' "jackbit" for work in its waxy wrapping paper....how very many memories come from just one photo....thanks, Ron. So glad The Album is up-and-running again.

I went to St Peter’s school next door to Excel bakery the smell just made you hungry. It was torture.

Reminds me of Corporal Jones’s delivery van. That came in for many mis-haps. But £198 for that van , what a bargain that was. Don’t know how much money that would be in todays market though.

I don't remember ever seeing, or hearing of, vans made by International Harvester - would this have been an American import?

Gaskell's bakery (not related) was in the area of Loch Street. Going from Wigan towards Orrell Post, it was on the right just past The White Swan Pemberton.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Galloways occupied the former
Gaskells bakery on Loch Street. We used to deliver Rank Hovis flour
to Galloways at Loch Street.