Wigan Album

There is something evocative about photos showing well lit stores,like Lowes. Taken on an early winters evening, when it was going dark, and raining.

i remember the clipper card (written on side of the bus) come on you nostasgia folks where are you.............

if i remember correctly the old beechill buses were numbered 1&1A.one went the way you said and the other went up bridgeman terrace down waklden ave righton to gidlow lane left into beech hill ave right to wellfield rd left into thickness ave and then back onto beech hill ave. the terminus was facing beech hill school. the bus then went back to the town centre where the numbers changed to 2&2a and then on to ashton in makerfield.i use to catch this bus alot because my then boyfriend lived at goose green and i didnt need to change buses which was handy when it rained.if im right at the weekends the bus fares would go up by 1/2 penny to cover for the extra wages that was paid.

Margaret, if you recall, the ½ penny increase at the weekend, was put on for the Suez Crisis, a threatened increase in the price of oil....Funny thing is, when the crisis was over, they never took it off..;o)

hi art i didnt know that as you can understand when your a teenager you dont bother about sutch things.

The 625 used to be the old Wigan Corporation 25. This one went to Beech Hill (Bluebell Avenue) by way of Frog Lane, Springfield Road, Beech Hill Avenue and Acacia Crescent. The 1/1A went to Netherby Road from Ashton-in-Makerfield via Walkden Avenue.

Wigan had 32 dual door Northern Counties Atlanteans, new 1968-72: short PDR1 FJP566G, GJP2-10G, long PDR2 KJP20-31J, and AN68/2R NEK1-10K.