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Probably T E Gallagher's. ('TEG Pickles') Located somewhere near Belle Green Lane?

Did they leave their curlers in all week and take them out for going to the pub at weekends?

Used to walk past here on way to school
Boy did it smell

The pickle works was likely to be T.E Gallaghers, Higher Ince.Pop and Pickles. It must be on a Friday, Hair in rollers ready for the night.

The factory was Gallaghers (TEG) and was at the bottom of Earl St

This is a brilliant photo, JohnAlan, thankyou for sharing it with us. I remember the pickle works but can't recall any of these ladies, although the lady you mention, Marion, looks familiar. I would only have been a very small child when it was taken. It is certainly a true picture of the time, and I do hope someone can identify these lovely, happy ladies.

On closer inspection. JohnAlan, it could be early sixties, going off the hair-rollers covered by headscarves and the shape of the glasses on the lady on the far right. It is certainly a sight familiar to me from my Ince childhood.

TEG,the pickle works was T. E. Gallagher's, (TEG'S), but wasn't the pop works Barton's, somewhere around Clegg St./Careless Lane?

Looks like the lady with the bouquet might be retiring.

The firm use to have a guard dog tied to a chain, always barking when you walk past the fence.

One of the girls in rollers was one of Annie Walls girls who lived next door to the Engineers,and I recognise another lady on the back row but don't know her name either.

Irene
bartons was indeed in clegg st on the corner with careless lane
I used to go there for pop and crisp for the boys brigade to sell at the meetings
I think the lady 4th in from the right at the back was called kingsey she had a brother called norman
I think she was later in charge of he ladies toilets in market pace wigan

i remember the smell and the dog barking at the gates.

Bill, would it be Margaret Walls

my sister may and my cousin lilian dwyer are the ones in rollers and my auntie betty dwyer is the one at the front wearing a white overall, she was manageress,

I remember the Dwyer family. Didn't Jenny Flannery, (nee Dwyer), have a shop in Ince Green Lane, opposite Maggie Scott's chippy?

Edna, I lived opposite the Walls and Dwyers. We lived on the opposite corner number 30

Thanks for clearing up the name of the works. I certainly remember TEG Pickles though I didn't know they were located in Ince. Second from the left front row is Evelyn Parkinson a good friend of Marion's. They both lived lived in Whelley although both are dead now. Marion worked for Donny Wiggin's shop that used to be on Scholes precinct, long since closed though as are most of the shops there at the time. John King's butchers was also there as well.

The lady is may walls ,I used to call her mother nanny wally

worked at TEG, in the office (nissan hut), my first job, April 1964 to December 1964, when I was made redundant. Paid out the wages on Friday to the factory workers - I was the "office wench" - left with a reference, tin of gingerbreads and a heavy heart. Finished Friday, got the Wigan Observer, applied for a job and working at A McGregor and Son in Wigan on the Monday - those where the days!!

It was my great Grandads factory ..I still make pickles

hi John - do you make pickles in Wigan? is it a long tradition for your family? what happened to the building (I was made redundant December 1964 from there).

Gallaghers pickles. Earl st

thanks for the info Angela.

I remember we used to have TEG piccalilli as a child. Have never been able to find a replacement that tastes as good - all of them too sweet.

The lady in the middle just behind the lady with flowers is Mary Harrison formerly Hill from windermere road. My grandma.