Wigan Album

As you scroll down on that photo it looks like the head are moving around.

Only thing I could make was Tanks.

Obviously one of your treasures Irene. I remember seeing a couple of dogs, bit like a terriers, made out of ciggy boxes.

Irene, I wonder if you have ever come across a magazine called The Best of British ? ....pure nostalgia...I love it.

Yes, I get Best of British, Helen, and I remember the cigarette packet dogs as well.In fact I had one but it has long since gone. Thanks for your comment.

I also remember the dogs,baskets and plates made from cigarette packets.Does anyone remember the tiny cigarettes that you could put into the mouth of the sailor on Players and Senior Service packs which you lit and if you tapped the packet the sailor puffed out smoke rings?

I like your 1959 calendar Irene - it's a bit of a show-stopper, isn't it. My brother and I were shown one during the 50's/60's, that was made up into a simple plate shape by using none other than the same cigarette packets as those used for your calendar. Your calendar also reminds me of an elderly patient who shared the same ward as our Dad at Billinge Hospital during the 1980's. His name was John, and he came from Wigan. John was quite a whizz with scissors 'n' paper, and also quite capable of creating a long line of matchstick men with little effort, from 'two' pages of newspaper if I remember correctly. My young nephew sat beside John, as he did his party-piece, and was gob-smacked at what was soon unfurled; graciously accepting his gift. I seem to recall that John later returned to Wigan.