General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I started work in Ince Wagon and Steel works down Christopher street in 1954, working as a dresser on axle boxes and number plates, sadly after a few months I finished up with an hernia, and so that put paid to that job, years later I went back to the Central Wagon Works down Patricroft road, which at that time was doing wagon repairs. When DR Beeching started to close the railways, Central Wagon turned to buying the locos, wagons and coaches and burning them up for scrap, it later started trading under the name of Thompsons, and was later relocated to Christopher street again here it traded till iT was bought out by a firm called Booker who wasted no time in closing the place down, I dont have any photos, except a couple which I got out of a book about Ince, and a as records documentation I dont have any of that either, so sorry I cant be of any help in that way.