Wigan Album

lovely photo roy , i have had a couple of strange things happen today !!!! firstly yesterday we heard the sad news that clive dunne had died age 92,then today i was looking for a gift for my cousin , i couldnt think of anything ! i went in a shop and came across these gifts that were all about dads army there was some good stuff but not cheap not that i wanted cheap but you know what i mean ,i had compleatly forgot about clive dunne and i chose a tin cup that said something about dads army on it i thought my cuz would like this so i bought it,when i gave it to him he reminded me about clive dunne i thought oh how strange i didnt think of it and now i have just come onto ww and this photo is in front of me !! luv weired stuff me.

What a great comedy, if you couldn,t laugh at Dads Army there was something wrong with you. As you say Josie this photo is all the more relevant because of Clive Dunn,s death this week. I,m still watching it, on Saturday evenings.

I didn't always watch Dad's Army, but I am familiar with most of the characters.
Thanks Roy for enlightening me to the fact that Pvt Sponge was a Wigan Lad.
It's great to see that you have kept this photograph which was signed for your two children all those years ago.
Also even though Jonesy wasn't a Wigan lad I would like to say it's good to see him on the pic too, R.I.P. Grandad.

The first time that I saw Colin Bean act was at the Grammar School in 1942. There was a play put on called "the monkey's paw" and Colin acted the part of the father in it.I have the same picture which he signed for me

Colin and I became friends when he came to the studio for some business headshots, later he helped judge our under five's portrait competition.
He was a man with a great sense of humour and fun to spend time with, all round a great character.

The cup is cherished josie I will think of you always when I use it. Colin Bean was a great pal of mine in his later years he lived in the flats above the waterwheel in scholes I have some great photos of him and I together we used to have lunch in the owls at standish sometimes. A great bloke taught me a lot about theatre etc. now sadly missed.

Used to have one of these myself and don't know where it went, Colin Bean used to go in the Royal British Legion in Wigan that's where I got mine from.

Correct Spenian, my father in law went in the Legion every weekday and told me he got to know CB quite well and that is where he got this photo from.

gerry have you watched that dvd yet,just wondering if its good ? x

I have now Josie its a belter although I don't remember much from 1952

well im'e glad it was a belter and at least you know what the world was doing when you were a babby x