Wigan Album

Whelley resorted to playing the soft game when all the big lads had left

The headmaster did not like rugby.Never new you was older than the rest of us.Brian Appleton was our star player,played for the town team .I think had trials at Aston Villa

Hi ken ,comments were a bit tongue in cheek,you,re right about Brian and aston villa , dodgy knees did for him though

i know brian appleton well . he lives somewhere in billinge & sometimes see him in ashton on tuesdays with his wife .

Thanks whups,for your comment.Tell Brian about Wigan World and the photos he may not know about them.

i will do ken . when i see him i,ll ley hom know.

Brian did a season with me at blackrod youth club in 1959 we were both apprentices at horwich loco works ,as were most of the team I think that's were villa picked him up from.bump into len berry now and again in the local in aspull

hi ken , iv,e informed brian about W/W & he says he,ll look it up.

Hi - I'm Carol Littler, Brian Appleton's daughter. My dad said he was talking to someone in Ashton today and they told him to look up this site. I'll see him tomorrow and show him. I've got two football mad son's and they thought it was great to see their grandad in a football kit. He did have trials for Aston Villa but dislocated his knee. He's dislocated it loads of times since. My dad still lives in Billinge and these days, you are most likely to catch up with him in Bispham Club, Smethurst Road.

Hi ken, I've been looking through these pictures with my grandad, jack Ashurst, but can't seem to find him on any, he's sure he should be on a few pics as he played with most of the lads in the pictures. Thanks

hello ken i think two lads on the end are alan bolton and john sumner

graham fairhurst between harold pos and alan bullpit