Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

I remember, and saw, many of the groups mentioned. I also went to the Casino, Palais de Danse, the New Court Ballroom and the Room at the Top.

I would have been around 15 at the time and my friends and I went to see The Beatles at the Ritz, and it's true about the screaming. You couldn't hear them at all. Stupid really, but that's how it was.

We saw Gene Pitney, Billy J Kramer, the Kinks and loads of others as well on different occasions.

We also bought tickets to see P J Proby who was to play at the Ritz, but they banned him after he split his leather trousers on stage somewhere else so, instead, they booked someone we'd never heard of so got our money back off the tickets. It wasn't until we saw this "nobody" on Top of the Pops a few nights later, and we kicked ourselves. It was Tom Jones.

What a great time it was back in the 60s, although it's impossible to describe when asked what it was like. You had to be there to understand.

Thank you for a lovely thread, Chatty. I didn't see it when you first posted it, so I'm glad to have found it now.