Wigan Album
Landgate
9 CommentsPhoto: Keith Beckett
Item #: 30737
The photo is from the Betty Shaw collection and features her three daughters. Patricia posting the letter and Elaine and Kathleen.
What a lovely photo to treasure - it seems an older scene than the sixties
Great, I love the 60s.
Veronica
I saw Mrs Shaw earlier at the Park Lane chapel coffee morning.
She loaned me a number of photos to post on WW.
Her daughter Elaine was born in 1961 and looks about 5 or 6 on the photo.
The post office was a treasure. It was previously a weaver’s cottage and should have been given listed status. I went to the primary school close to the post office and can still remember the smell and taste of the liquorice sticks we used to buy there.
A great photo Keith! And perhaps there's also a hint of sadness in the girls' demeanour.
Yes Keith I believe it is in the sixties - there's just an atmosphere about it that seems from a more gentler time. Thanks for putting it on here.
I can see what Veronica means. The girl posting the letter is dressed as little girls were in the sixties. I remember having dresses and shoes like hers, and a knitted bonnet. And yet the two figures to the left look as if they're from the twenties or thirties. A very special photo.
That's right Irene - could almost be a modern child 'popping'back in time to post a letter! ( If only we could!). Looking forward to more of these photos Keith from the Betty Shaw collection.
Dear friend.
I write down words of simpler times,
when change was then and action rhymed.
I bid farewell to letter sent,
and ponder how my thoughts were read.
To you my friend i send always,
my love undying on this day.
Young hand shall speed my message yours,
Not time shall forfeit heart nor cause.
I have lovely memories, when as a little girl, living at Perry Brook, I would go to this post office and get treats of some kind.. I loved that little Post Office... Was so sad when it closed, even though I was then a teenager..