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

Kenny no I didn't I'm afraid, my grandad lived in Holt Street after moving from Francis Street so my dad and his brother and sister grew up at no 15, my great grandma at 25 and my great great grandad at the last house before the railway ( 35?). Corny Pennington had a brother Jack who just sat down in BHS Wigan and died and their dad Arthur ran a painting and decorating business. I know they once set a woman's curtains alight with a blowlamp and ran out yelling' eh missis yer curtins is afire'.Corny and my dad went to the old Belle Green Mission school on Bryham Street corner but I think all this was before your time. There can't be many left who recall life around the ironworks in the 1920s/30s now. What a vibrant place it must have been. Wish I'd written all my dad's tales down, but there you are.