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

I remember a lady in Pickup Sreet, (Sally Cassidy, although that may have been her maiden-name), opening her front room as a little shop; what excitememt it caused when it first opened! She had a penny tray for the children, jars of sweets, washing-powder, tinned food.....just general goods, but so handy if our Mams ran out of something. She sold glasses of Tizer or Dandelion -and- Burdock pop for a penny....you just stood and drank it in the shop,(the glasses were used for one child after another.....no-one fussed about hygiene in those days, and we none of us seem to have come to any harm!), and there was hardly room in front of the counter because all the neighbours used to gather there fradging. I remember taking potato peelings and carrot peelings to Sally's and getting a handful of toffees in exchange; I imagine her husband kept hens in one of the pens at the bottom of our back-field and the peelings were used for them. A lot of shops had a "tick-book" in those days, so you could get goods "on t'tick" until pay-night on Friday.