Wigan Album

Excellent stuff Fred. I went to the school, but never knew that it had a chapel. I presume that the projecting section on the left of the picture was it ? As I remember, that area ( inside ) was raised up . . . the altar ? Intriguing

Great pic,i was at St Paul's from 1953,to the right of the school there was a row of cottages running parallel to the entrance to the junior school. Can anyone remember them and the name of the street/road/place they were on? Look forward to someone knowing anything about them.I lived on Goose Green (Brook Street)from being born in 1948 until 1965, then onto Worsley Mesnes until 1968.

L think the row of houses running alongside the school might have been called Dukes Row, but its a long time ago, has anyone got any more info, l'm intrigued now.

I have pondered my brains over this row of cottages I have discussed it with my sister Jean Smith who asked the question about it, I thought it was something Row, Helen seems to think it was Dukes Row, After second thoughts and discussing it with my brother I'm now thinking was it called [School Terrace].

my mums aunty and uncle lived in one off these cottages i remember going and it had an old range in the front room i wasnt so old then i think there was a toffee shop in that row but could be wrong it was a long time ago there name was harold and polly hewitt

harold and polly hewitt lived at the bottom of sydneys street back to back with the school the row of cottages were school terrace

yes it was my grandads brother harold hewitt and aunty polly long time ago but i remember the houses

I started St Pauls school in 1950. I remember the row of terraced houses, and I also think is was called school terrace. I lived in Bentinck street untill I was about 14, and then we moved to Marsh Green. The old phptographs bring back a lot of happy memories.

what was the monument in the middle of play ground it is still there at new school

vicar/Rev. Ambrose Edward Buer 1st vicar of St. Pau's Goose Green. He died 1952. Wife Mary Eliza Lonsdale Buer. Has anyone met him? What were they like? I am his great niece in Australia and would like to know, thank you.

Can anyone tell me when this school was first built?, thank you.

I went to St Paul's school from 1948 until 1954. I was in the church choir and attended both funerals of Rev Ambrose Buer and his wife, when they were both placed in the vault beneath the mound in the church gardens near the west end of the church.