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

Well hello johnt, former firebrand gullicks shop steward. Glad to hear you're on top of the soil, mon. Last time I bumped into you, was in the bar of the Falcon Hotel Stratford on Avon. When would that've been?

Lygoe's Windows: I know no-one would 've wondered what happeened to 'em , but I'll tell y'anyway:

Lygoe's pawn shop on the Bar was just past the Temp on the site of the current post office.
When it stood empty awaiting demolition, my mate Ste W decided Lygoe's big plate glass windows wee so bonny they'd be better reconstituted as a giant fish tank, and so were duly liberated.

The tank dimensions were such that it had no chance of fitting through his back door in Belle Green Lane and the whole job was designed , welded and erected in the back kitchen.

''I towd ya it'd owd wayter and not leak , dinta.... Oh ye of little faith'' he shouted to his wife in t'front.

What was that bang?' his wife shouted back, moments before 300 gallons of water cascaded towards her.

I told him, 'Crime never pays.'