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Photo: Liz Kearvell.....Lizzie down under
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Item #: 23546
My Grandparents on my Dad's side......Harry and Lizzie Hayes.....Grandad worked at Ince Wagon Works for all his life.....Granny was in service as a maid until she had children which numbered 5. This picture was taken obviously just after Grandad had come home from work....the year I am not sure 1930s or early 1940s.....just a point both my Grandmothers names were Lizzie and both my Grandfather's names were Harry....cheers!!!

Comment by: ann21 on 12th June 2013 at 17:14

Lizzie, which area was this and who had a camera then? Lovely photo.

Comment by: Dave Marsh on 12th June 2013 at 17:54

My kind of photo,speaks a million words.

Comment by: broady on 12th June 2013 at 20:10

Spot on Dave. Great photo with great memories for their family.

Comment by: Nogger on 12th June 2013 at 23:29

My father was a Wagon Builder and worked for varying periods at Ince Wagon, Wigan Wagon and Central Wagon, he would have known Harry and I remember my father's 'mate' was Sid Hayes, maybe a relation?

Comment by: Lizzie down under on 13th June 2013 at 02:04

Hi Ann!! This was taken in the back yard in Keebel or Kebel (not sure of the spelling) Street Higher Ince.....who had the camera.....don't know that one but I love this picture......says a lot of the times they were living in.....A sad note, my Grandad Harry died six months before my parents were married :(
I guess I am carrying on the Lizzie name......Thankyou for all your comments..... :-)

Comment by: Grannieannie on 13th June 2013 at 09:16

Such dignity and strength in their faces, I love the way her hand is linked in his arm.

Comment by: Albert. on 13th June 2013 at 14:07

Most of the dwellings in the thirties,and,forties,in the industrial areas of Lancashire were terraced,(rented), with outside lavatories. Our's in Spring View, was terraced, there were eight lavatories,in a large back yard, four on one side, and four on the other. We were fortunate, we had a lock, and key,for our's. My dad put a bobbin(seemed the size of a jam jar) on the key, so it wouldn't get lost.I once went to a school friend's house. In their loo, they had newspaper, cut up into neat squares, with a string through them. I thought they were so very posh. This was in the forties.

Comment by: Maureen on 13th June 2013 at 14:47

Oh Albert,haven't we come a long way since then..growing up,I remember the outside loo,but my Mam said that if you had catalogue pages then you were really posh..and I definitely remember being frightened of the spiders that dwelt in there..now all that we worry about is the fact that everything matches.

Comment by: Albert on 13th June 2013 at 16:12

Maureen, one of the jobs I detested was, when everything was frozen up in winter, and you had to cart buckets of water across the yard to flush the lavatory. My dad kept a miners' oil lamp burning, to try to prevent the freezing, but it seldom did.

Comment by: Margaret Wall on 13th June 2013 at 16:31

I remember the newspaper squares Maureen. We were never posh enough to have catalogue squares. I remember our outside loo very well and all the spiders on the wall. Ugh the very thought of it fills me with dread. It's left me with a lifelong fear of the little horrors.
Lovely picture Lizzie and one that I can definitely identify with.

Comment by: Maurice on 13th June 2013 at 16:42

The 1st house we had after getting married was in Bryn,the outside loo there was just a big bucket,over it was a wood board with an oval hole cut in it,the bucket was emptied once a week by the council men,we did'nt have a dust bin either,just a midden which again was shifted the same way,and this was in the early 60s.

Comment by: Maurice on 13th June 2013 at 17:52

Albert,those lead pipes burst almost every winter,it was a work of art how the plumbers repaired them,and the walls were always whitewashed,and the whitewash kept coming up in big bubbles,after the newspaper sheets came the Izal,that was slippy stuff!!!

Comment by: Lizzie down under on 13th June 2013 at 19:51

I am so glad I put this picture up......I am overwhelmed at the responses but somehow not surprised....Thankyou all once again.....Lizzie xx

Comment by: Albert. on 14th June 2013 at 09:50

Maurice. My dad, all through the thirties, and throughout the forties, took the newspaper "The Daily Dispatch". The name was very appropriate. After it had been read, it was given a very important task. Forgive me, this slightly crude comment.

Comment by: Philip Young on 14th June 2013 at 14:47

Correct spelling is Keble Street, still in existence with houses and cobbled roadway, one of the very few cobbled streets left in Wigan - I pass it every time we go to Morrison's Supermarket in Ince

Comment by: Maurice on 14th June 2013 at 19:05

We used the Daily Herald Albert,it was only 1d.Keble Street was always shown at the beginning of the Mrs Merton show.

Comment by: kam on 20th June 2013 at 18:10

i remember a mrs heyes from Keble st, i was brought up round there, she lived in the houses that are sadly no longer there, near to manchester road side, near grundys furniture shop, i went a few times to make her coal fire when i was on the home help and knew her from my childhood a lovely homely lady,i think it was a grandaughter of mrs heyes i played with sometimes,brenda, is this the same family, ......it was bird street higher ince that they showed at the begining of mrs merton shoe.

Comment by: susan on 14th February 2014 at 17:17

My grandparents lived in Keble Street, next door but one to Grundys furniture shop. Their name was Heyes, and one of their grandchildren was Brenda - my cousin. Their house was pulled down. Nice to hear that someone has found memories of my grandmother. However we were not related to the other Hayes family.

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