Wigan Album

I remember the canteen from my childhood when my much-older brother Colin, who worked at Springs Branch, would take me there to collect his wages, and buy me a drink and a cake, and I recall that someone had written "resti roomski" on the canteen door. This would have been late 1950s when I was a very small child, but I remember it distinctly.

Thanks Tom brings back great memories

My dad also used to take me there when he collected his wages in the very early sixties and when I was a teenager in the seventies I'd sometimes I'd pick them up for him on my way home from work. It was such a lovely time and place. Spring view isn't what it was. It bugs me that they pulled all those Edwardian/Victorian houses down. They would have been refurbed now, and they've built on the land that they said made those houses and the church unsafe.that was the excuse they used at the time. I'd love a peep at the records to find out why all this land keeps being sold in this borough. The latest news is that they're allegedly emptying the galleries and filling it with all the club's and pubs in King street. They want to make it like the Printworks in Manchester. Like we don't have enough drunks drinking every hour god sends, they're going to put all the drunks in the centre of town. There'll be nothing left of it. We'll be stepping over comatose bodies every Saturday morning. Well done again Wigan Councillors! Where is it you live again? They sell everything and preserve nothing.

Very sad photo of JT{SBT} and DC,not a playing card in view

Upthetims I have forgot who you are and what depot you worked Alzheimer's coming

Blond hair, Jimmy and we put some hours in when we were on that Bayston Hill job .Never caught the job after 1st turn and ended up booking on about 19.00 hrs by Friday.UPT aka Stey Fishwick