Wigan Album
North Ashton Holy Trinity C of E School
8 CommentsPhoto: Janice Ryder
Item #: 8931
Will have a good look thanks my mum lived in the Blue Bell Cottages,think there was three Harrisons lived in two of them and Crofts lived in the other,they was still up in the mid 40s I remember them being pulled down
Janice your Granddad would know my Dad very very well LOL
This is a lovely picture Janice. There won't be any of my family on there as they only moved to Downall Green in about 1946.
Would there be anybody from Garswood on this. It's where my mothers family are from.
Hiya Dugie, yes Croft's lived at number 1 and Harrison's at 2 Dont know the others. I was told that Croft's at number 1 used to have a parrot which they put outside when the weather was nice, and the chidren going to school would see it. The fronts of these cottages faced the gable end of the Blue Bell, so we are wondering if the origional pub was just the building at the back. Because if you look at the Blue Bell it looks like the older part of the building is at the back. I would'nt have thought that the cottages would have been built so close to the gable end of the Blue Bell, because there is only a small entry between them. The cottages had no back doors, the back of them was right on the school yard. No health and safety in those days lol.
Hiya John, yes there definitely would be i think in those days they all went to Rectory. I know that 2 children on the photo were from Dolly Tub Row at Simms Lane End.
Janice I don't know you but may know M the person that is giving you the photo's,dose she know the Yates family from Coronation Street'it was the Harrison's that had the parrot not the Croft's both the Croft's and Harrison's moved from Downall Green to Coronation Street
Dugie, just presumed it was the Croft's who had the parrot because my uncle said it was the people in the end house who had it and that it was Croft's who lived at number 1. Regarding the photo's they are mostly family ones. They were taken by Old Bill Ryder in the late 20's and 30's and some in the 40's most were never developed and when he died in 1968 one of his sons got them and just kept them in a drawer. He gave them to us recently and we have had them developed.We have been suprised by the quality of them to say that they have been stuck in a drawer for 70/80yrs.
my great grand parents both owned the blue bell pub the glovers and the ashtons