Wigan Album

Owd Black in the garden at St Williams RC, Ince, with the lads growing cabbages 1951/52ish

Stood with Owd black, Brian Tarpey then L to R John Ashall, Cliff March, Mick Lee, Terry Wilson, Tony Connor, Terry Harrington, Matt Cusick, John Daniels, Dennis Hagen.

Thats a nice photo,by eck! those vegetables look crumpers!
apparantly in the 1950s highfield primary school on billinge road pemberton also had allotments too.
Were allotments/plots like this part of the old WW2 wartime dig for victory campaign? that were just kept going after the war finished?

My husband was at Highfield Senior Boys School from 1948 to 1952 and worked in the allotments there, with Mr Gaskell being the teacher . He doesn't remember the primary school having allotments.

Evelyn, Terry says the weren't allotments as such it was just what they called the school garden, they sold the vegetables to the pupils. I was just behind the school, over the school wall.

Sorry Evelyn,i meant to say senior school.
My old grey matter isnt what it used to be :-)

i started 1951-2 so these must have been 1948-49

At one time wasn’t there a goat and a donkey in the School garden

Me grandad there matt cusick