Wigan Album

This photo reminds me of Giacomo Agostini as a young lad!

Young Ago'would have dropped the bars and ditched the chair pretty quickly. Looks like an early twenties BSA?

Great photo! My dad had a BSA motor bike & sidecar and believe it or not before he got a bigger vehicle it carried seven of us! Talk about crammed i! Dad & mum on bike children in the sidecar!

Sandra; that must have been when you "were VERY young"! (lol)

BSA - Birmingham Small Arms competed with the Italian manufacturers. At one time, streets were full of bikes and sidecars before people could afford motor cars!

Yes Ellen, we were all small! It is surprising how much clothes etc can be stored in the nose cone & pannier bags.Our motorbike & sidecar was a large one.It had seats front & rear.Happy days,if not a little squashed!

Yes Ellen, we were all small! It is surprising how much clothes etc can be stored in the nose cone & pannier bags.Our motorbike & sidecar was a large one.It had seats front & rear.Happy days,if not a little squashed!

It is so long ago, that I have forgotten my workmates name, other than his first name was Jack, and he lived in Schofield Lane. We worked together, in the tunnels, at the Maypole pit, Abram. After our shift had finished, I would travel home to Lower Ince, in the side car of his motor cycle.
Not the most comfortable of ways to travel, but it was very much appreciated.
This was 1952/53.

I would have been more correct if I had stated, within the immediate area of Schofield Lane, that is where Jack lived.

Giovanni said, "BSA - Birmingham Small Arms competed with the Italian manufacturers."

Errrrrrrrrrrr., excuse me! BSA certainly DID NOT compete with the Italian manufacturers. The Italian manufacturers were simply overshadowed by the majority of the BRITISH motorcycle manufacturers of that time.
You could say "the Italian manufacturers ATTEMPTED, unsuccessfully, to compete with the British manufacturers !

This is the year I born in great St wallgate great times