Wigan Album

Spotted my lovely dad
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Frank Roby still active and looking well,3rd row up,4th from the left.

Hi Eric, hav`nt seen this before and not in it but ill try to name some,B/Row ? derek Maloney,? ?alan prescot,terence large,david price,? ?.2nd/Row.derek cooper,geof barker,keith wignall,frank roby,kevin worsley david box,alan ainscough,? micky stewart.3rd?row lesley roscoe,? john roughley,billy walsh,alan heaton,tommy smart.clive moss,? ?seated len winstanley,? ? alan fairclough,noman griffiths,teddy dawson,?.eric along time ago since we used to go to the print shop at the bottom of little lane,i think it was your grandads,give you a clue who i am jago,wendy who is your dad.

If you went to this school you certainly weren't guaranteed serious academic credentials. But with the benefit of hindsight and remembering one's time at high school, then I am glad that I went to Highfield. It was simply a great school and I was fortunate to be a student there!

David Whelan didn,t do to bad did he !!!
he was an Higfhfield pupil ,not sure what year.

I cant work out your name from "Wigie" or "Jago", but nice to hear from you all the same. The print shop you was the Radio Press,where I started work on leaving school. It was owned by my uncle Silas {Hibbert}. Also Wendy is my lovely daughter.

Check out the improved image, sent in by "Tom" a much clearer photo, if repro is needed.

Joe Puckering - 3rd row down, second in from right.

Nice to hear from you Joe. I expected a few more replies from individuals in the photo, are we the only few left?? Anyway thanks again for taking the time to reply. Keep taking the pills.

Eric

Silas Hibbert was my grandad, so you must have been Nellie's brother

Stuart Thanks for sending in a comment, if I have worked it out right, your mum and dad must be May and Geoff. Nellie was my auntie (dads sister).

Bob You mention a teachers name I have been trying for ages to remember, Charlie Sandham, with his piano and gramophone on stage every morning. I did more or less the same as your lot in singing, only I used to mime and look at the trees across at the vicarage. He was also the geography teacher, his classroom ajoining the hall at the rear, in it on the wall was a large display cabinet in sections showing items we got from the commonwealth, one of them was a couple of sticks of cinnamon, which I can admit to now, after 45 odd years I ATE.

Yes that is right Eric, May and Geoff were my parents and I can only just remember Silas, because I was only six years old when he died and I have a memory of being in Silas's and Nellie's house on Warrington Road at Goose Green and there being a chap there, who was called Uncle Fred and I am wondering Eric, if Fred was your dad.

Stuart No Fred was also my uncle. If you look back to the photo of South Pemberton Brass Band, you'll see Fred together with my dad Bill. Fred was the family mechanic, a lorry driver by trade. Chief engineer on THE BOAT to Ireland, with Silas as Captain!! Did your mum and dad tell you about this episode?

Eric, thank you for putting me right about who your father was and I do know about Silas and Fred sailing to Ireland and as I remember it, they sailed from Glasson Dock to Dun Laoghaire, with a stop over in the Isle of Man.

My brother went to Highfield school born in 1937 so may have left just before this picture was taken his name is Brian Thomas.

Hi Dave Thomas , my brother was born in 1937 also and he went to highfield his name was Wilfred Winstanley, sad to add he died this January 12th2015 just wondering if you knew him .