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

Peter and I used to go round with a duo, round the Labour Clubs/ Legions etc.,before we were married, with a group of friends. One of the girls was Julie Mawdesley, but don't know if it's the same one. She was a lovely girl, and very attractive. I remember the "Temp" on Ince Bar, and I recall when my brother Colin got married in 1961; he got a house in Ince Green Lane and bought some hardboard from Hesketh's Hardware shop; The Bug was closed by then and Hesketh's used it as their store-room, and Our Colin and I went with one of the Hesketh brothers to collect the hardboard. There is something very strange and creepy about a disused cinema or theatre and I can remember the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end, and the feeling of relief to get back onto the Saturday Morning bustle and noise on Ince Bar. It probably wouldn't feel anything like that now, but then it hadn't been closed that long as a cinema, and it was as if it was waiting in the dust and the silence for the music to start up and the people to take their seats. Fanciful I know, but I felt as if someone was watching us and I have never forgotten it.