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

I remember Annie Britton's, later run by her daughter Winnie. The other shop was Shaws at one time, but I remember it as Flannery's, or Jenny Dwyer's, (Dwyer being Jenny's maiden name). The chippy across the road was, in my childhood, Maggie Scott's, and many a "six", (sixpennywoth), of chips I've had from there, in a bag made from newspaper. My brother Colin lived next door to the chippy and sometimes people used to walk into Colin's, thinking it was the door to the chippy! They used to be so embarrassed! Now here's a little Ince ghost-story for you all.....My brother and his wife were woken by a loud banging on their front door in the early hours of the morning; they opened it to find a policeman there, asking if everything was ok. Puzzled, they said Yes, everything was fine, and the policeman said he'd just seen a woman dressed in a long white dress run out of their door and up towards Ince Bar. Strange, eh?