Wigan Album

Thanks, Dennis! Peter, (Pee), Taylor was a real character! I have told these tales before on here but as I am getting to an age where people will expect me to repeat myself, I am going to take advantage of that and tell them again. When I worked at the Platt Bridge Inn, Peter used to run errands for the tap-room lads, who would buy him a half of bitter. One day someone asked him to go to a nearby shop for ten Benson and Hedges cigarettes. Peter told the lad that they were out of stock the previous day, and the lad said, "Oh well, if they've no Benson's just fetch owt".....Peter came back with two meat pies! More tales soon!

Hello Irene, my old mucker.Great days in the Platt Bridge in when Dick Seddon was the landlord.Other great characters were "Cis southern (John's dad) Bob Perry your own dad Bob and do you remember "Pint Pot" Flo wwho could do 30 pints a day .Happy Days .

Hello, Colin! I remember Cis well and their John, but I can't recall Pint Pot Flo. Do you remember the Bickershaw Pop Festival in 1972? I was standing in Platt Bridge waiting for some friends, and the traffic was at a standstill due to bus-loads of hippies going to Bickershaw, and Peter was walking down the middle of the road wearing a traffic-cone on his head wrapped around with fairy-lights. I think the hippies thought they were hallucinating! He was once sent to the Miners' Convalescent Home for a week, and he sent Lilian at the Platt Bridge Inn a postcard. It said on the address part, "Lily, Plat In, Wigan" and, all credit to the GPO, it arrived. It was so mis-spelt, we couldn't read it except for the word "Convalescent", and when Peter came home I asked him how he had managed to spell it, and he said, "Why, Ah went eautside an' set on t'wa' an' copied it!"

I used to live in Abram and knew Pey Taylor as a bit of a character, my wife's parents had 'Scillas' chip shop near the King Billy upto 1960, Pey Taylor used to frequent the shop. On a regular basis he would lick the chip paper having eaten chips and peas and leave his face covered in pea juice.

That doesn't surprise me, Aubrey! There used to be a little phone-booth in the Platt Bridge Inn and Peter once got me to ring O'Neill's tv shop as he couldn't get a picture on his telly. I was the go-between with Peter shouting in my ear at one end, and the lady in O'Neill's becoming more confused by Peter's comments by the minute. I said to Peter, "The lady wants to know if you think it might be your aerial, Peter?" and he said, "Nay, it cornt t'bi th'aerial.....wiv geet noan!" It was like being in a Carry-On film! It was the custom around Platt Bridge pubs to put a pint pot behind the bar when someone died, and people would give a donation towards a wreath, and I will never forget the day I walked in to work and saw a pint pot with Peter's name on. Peter was a legend in Platt Bridge, a friend to all the village, and, I'm so happy to say, a friend of mine. I am proud to have known him.

pey taylor was a cracking drummer is brouther use to play at jolly jacks at bamferlong pey use to were white shirts black rim round the coler allway in platt bridge in and club at wk ends

Did he play the drums in Platt Bridge Labour Club at one time??

Is Platt-Bridge club still going?

I believe so, Broady.

Garry, I believe it's just closed.

Irene,
Just to add to my previous comment, Pey Taylor would have been more likely to ask for " chips un peys" or " chips un pey weet."

Irene. I remember Reg Banks being the Landlord in the War and just after .with his wife Ginny My Gran waited on there at weekends and I vjsited there as a young boy We have just received a Christmas card from Reg,S daughter Lilian,She was brought up in the P B Inn

Hello, AB. I was born in Ince in 1952 and lived there until 1971 when our house was demolished and I moved with my parents to Platt Bridge. My husband Peter and I attend the 1940s weekends up and down the country, where everyone dresses in forties clothes, and I find it fascinating that you remember The Platt Bridge Inn in those days. I would have loved to have seen it then, as I'm sure my friend Dennis Miller, who uploaded the photo, would. I don't suppose you have any photos of it in those days?

Irene.American servicemen from Burtonwood were frequent visitors to the P B Inn in the 40,s. The " Yanks" were a source of chewing gum to us in those days to the children and it was common to approach one asking "GOT any Gum Chum"
They were also a source of nylons to young ladies