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

pisolivadi.....actually, when I was walking our dog yesterday, my mind was going over memories I could add to this thread to keep it going, and it suddenly dawned on me who you were, but I still have no memory whatsoever of the day out with you and June! I remember Dr. Hyde's well. The surgery was on Ince Green Lane and was called Bedford House, but the waiting room was round the corner in George Street. It was a bare little room with plain wooden benches round the walls, an ancient gas-fire and a central dim light-bulb with a plain pink shade. There was a little "window" where you gave your name in to the receptionist, Mrs. Thorpe, before you took your uncomfortable seat for a long wait amidst coughs and whispered conversations. Dr. Hyde liked a drink and a bet, and used to go out to a regular patient of his, the daughter of a local "bookie", and often got so carried away with the racing on the telly that he left without seeing his patient! Dr. Hyde's daughter, Dr. Marie, (pronounced "Marry"), was also at Bedford House.
Fossil, I do remember when Charlie Abbott ran the Long-Neck. My Mam and Dad were reular customers in those far-off days of Singing-Rooms and pianos. The brewery was Magee's, and my Mam loved their Oatmeal Stout.