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

I remember it well Ray, and Peter, I do recall the midden toilets being emptied, that's what ours were until they were upgraded, to flush ones, the council men used to come round with a truck with an half rounded top, something like a bread bin, 2 each side, the toilets had a small door in the side which had a large container under the wooden board, we used to keep well away from there when the things were emptied, It was a fair trudge to our toilets in the night, so no one went, we used a bucket behind the door at the top of the stairs, another memory is of going downstairs in a morning and watching all the cockroaches scuttle away, usually to under the stairs were all the coal was kept, we had flag floors covered with peg rugs, which we had made ourselves with a sack for the base and old clothes cut up to be used for pegging the rug, listening to the archers ont wireless and the Dick Barton special agent with his 2 friends Snowy and Jock, then it was bed time for us chickens, we were always in the kitchen, we wernt allowed int front room, except for special occasions, but I cant think of many, when I think back to that room, I dont know how we got in, at one time there was a sideboard, 4 chairs, a sofa, a radiogram, and a piano in there, built in cupboards in the corner, where mi dad used to hide the christmas presents, but that was only when we got older, we also had a real christmas tree in that room each year, happy days hard but happy.