Wigan Album

1st row l-r 1stMargaret Haynes,4th Pam [Lewis?] 7th ? Duffy
2nd row-6th ?Simpson or Simpkin,lived near old Co-op,7th Joan Grimshaw.Ican also see Olwyn and Marjorie in the line up.

The very end of the front row on the right could be Diane Hornby. It is Christine Duffy incidentally.

next to Olwyn is Lynn Carver

Hiya Keith, Phil and Broady, The old brain must be working prety well to-night as I do recognise quite a few on this photo,Here goes-Back row Christine Lee, Doreen Dootson, Margaret Heaton, Jean Porter, ???, Margaret Wright.
Middle row-Rosemary Simm, Sylvia Simm, ???, Margaret Wilkie,(still my best friend), Sylvia Pennington in front of me,Marlene Simpkin in front of Marjorie, Rita Ellison (top of head) next to Marjorie.
The man second from left holding banner is Ernie Barlow,Chris Greenwood in suit middle of banner. Does anybody agree.
Cheers to you all
Olwyn

hi Olwyn are you any relation to Mark and his cousin Dave,cos they've got good memories as well.next to Margaret Wright is Jean Dootson,i've not half had the micky taken out of me over some of the photo's,one mate rang me up and said 'when its foggy will you walk in front of my car'(i did'nt twig,and thats not like me)then he said 'in that quaint little suit your wearing'

Olwyn,
Spot on.Who's the young woman on the end?

Phil, Sorry,cant help you any further at the moment with this picture, but if I speak to Margaret Wilkie she may know a few more.
Cheers,Olwyn.

Banner carrier far left is Frank Skeath

Third on bottom left side Pearl Ascroft My sister and the
seventh is Christine Duffy.

I really enjoyed looking at the old photographs Abram St. John's Walking Days.
It is Frank Skeath, ( wife Ivy & daughter Brenda )
on the left of the back row.
I went to Abram C of E Primary School and Golborne Girls'
High School, with both Pearl Ascroft & Christine Duffy.
Other contempory school friends included :-
Pamela Lewis, Norma Chapman, Barry McNamara, Leslie Hodson,
Valerie Bullough, Eileen Miller, Kathleen Broad,Joan Atherton, Diane Rasburn, Emily Burtonwood, Sandra Durdin, Aileen Ainscough, Margaret Holland, ( who lived in the old Victorian Vicarage ) and her cousin Carloe Vaughn lived next door and her Father was a vicar, who I recall had been to Africa !
Barbara Grime, Sylvia Pennington, Pat Burrows, Margaret Parry, Thelma ( Williams / ),&
Keith Meadows, ( Jenny's Dad ).

I remember Mark Calter. I think his family lived in the end house in Vicarage Road before you turned right to go towards Abram Park but I think that he attended the Holy Family R.C. Primary School in Platt Bridge ! Many of us used to go to the Youth Club in St. John's School, before the Church bought the former Labour Club after rhe new one had been built behind Warrington Road.
They were very bigotted then because they wouldn't let our friend Norma in because she was a Catholic !
This must have been circa 1963/1964 because we used to play Beatles records and several of us used to catch the 320 bus,
which used to go straight to Liverpool. where we went to the Cavern Club. I've still got my original membership card from 1963 and I was there, with my friend Julie, on the night that the Beatles made their last appearance there on August Monday, ( 03/08/1963 ), which was televised, with me on it, for, the " Look North evening local news programme !
After the Walking Days, we used to spend our Dorothy Bag donations on sweets in the corner shop that is pictured on one of the photographs and then we would go to Abram Park for a gala.
I have lived in St. Helens since I got married in 1969 and Norma Chapman now lives in Rainford.
Other names I remember are :- the Deakins,Alan Belshaw,
Brian, Susan, Duncan & Ian Rasburn, ( Diane's brothers & sister ), Kathleen Prescott, Minnie Ashcroft, Billy Reid, Tommy & Betty
Parry, Brian, Tom & Arthur Holland, ( Margaret's brothers ) Betty & Jimmy Smith, Keith & David Green, Joan Chadwick, Alkan & Jean Battersby, Philip Hodson, ( Jean's brother-in-law, Leslie Halliday, ( Boys' Brigade Leader ), Wally & Bert Ashcroft, Keith Penninton, Peter Lang, Peter Williams, the vicar, the Reverend Dowthwaite and my two brothers, Kenneth & David Hiley.
But in those days, 2 years was a seen as a big age gap and we tended to hang about with our own age groups, on the park and at the youth clubs !
I don't know what the park is like these days but we had a bowling green, a putting green, a concrete paddling pool, tennis courts, a verandah and a football pitch and playground at the top of the park, with a PARKIE that watched us all like hawks !
If anyone happens to read this lengthy comment and used to know me, I would like to hear from you !
Pat Robinson.

Is Edina Worthinton,the former Edwina Ascroft, who lived on Warrington Road, with Pearl & their Mum & Dad ?