Wigan Album

Those two metal cigarette advertising signs would be worth a fortune today They probably got dumped when they demolished the houses>...

I remember the wooden telegraph poles being taken down when I was about six years old, that would make the photo pre 1957.

Did you live there kenee ?....My auntie Bessie Lomax lived in that row of houses, I used to love the view from the back of her house..

I didn't live in Bryn Janet, just down the road in Ashton but I would visit frequently. What was the confectionary wholesaler next to Bryn station? Someone there once gave us some 'display' chocolate bars, KitKat, Aero, etc. They were real wrappers but the inside was wood! Great for fooling your mates.

kenee was the shop Potters facing the Brit

Ron: The posters would have gone circa 1959, when it ceased to be a shop. A family from Spennymoor, named 'Mason', then moved in, and converted it to a private dwelling house. I met Fred Mason in Wally Bishops, on one of my rare returns to the district in the 80s. Don’t recall if I asked if any other of the family were still local. I recall Fred’s dad draining the swamp that the brook had created on margin of their land, and the adjoining field.

Potters:
Yeah - you could be right spectre.

It was Potters, I was talking with someone only the other day about it....

Potter's was a double shop. The southernmost (nearest to railway) was a retail shop. The other (adjoining) was a wholesale shop, and the window display was filled with 'dummies'. Hence, your wooden chocolate.

Hi Janet i think your auntie bessie used to live in the next row up,if you look on walking day site [st peters] you will see your aunties house.

Hi Janet I recall a Ken Lomax, somewhere in the terrace. Didn't he have one of those bycycles with very small wheels, decades before they became commonplace?

Hi Priscus, I am Fred Mason, and I remember you. We lived there until they where CPO'd, I have so many good memories of living there, I just wish I could travel back in time and stay there, I hope you are keeping well these days.. Regards to you and yours