Photo-a-Day  (Wednesday, 19th April, 2023)

My Doctor in the fifties-wonderful and helpful

This was such an up- market area in the past. The buildings were something then and built to last. I don’t know if that’s the original door - I hope it’s not plastic. I like the window though.

https://www.wigantoday.net/news/people/blue-plaque-unveiled-outside-former-home-of-inspirational-wigan-doctor-3366699

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/13097191/

The house is currently for sale. Dr Colin Haigh who had a practice on Ormskirk Road Newtown and his wife Sheila lived on the upper floor of the house, he died around a year ago, Mrs Sheila Haigh too must have either died or gone into care. Phillip Hind, Sheila's brother and his wife Julie had the dental practice on the ground floor before retiring a couple of years ago. Hinds Dental Practice was very popular at one time with appointments difficult to get, until they decided go fully private. It was still quite a busy practice even then, but you could at times have a choice of appointments. Even more dentists than ever are going fully private with NHS dentists becoming as rare as hen's teeth.

Our family doctor was Dr Haigh, who practised in Ormskirk Road, Newtown. I think he was Dr Muriel Haigh's son. A gentleman.

My doctors surgery was the one in Ormskirk Road, Newtown. I rarely saw Dr Haigh but when I did, he asked what I thought was wrong before offering a prognosis.

I had to smile Ticsmon, it's how I remember him.

Dr Muriel Haigh was our family Doctor in the 1950's. Her surgery was in a terraced house in Lower Ince, opposite the bus stop before you got to St Mary's School.
She was very kindly although she looked a little foreboding with her hair plaited and tied into a bun and her dark rimmed glasses,