Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Darlington Street East
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Photo: Keith Bowen
Photo: Keith Bowen
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Item #: 10396
Item #: 10396
Photo of a shop in Darlington Street East undergoing re-furbishment and revealing its prior existence as a Temperance Bar. It's very difficult to make out the old faded lettering but I think it looks something like "GALVINS" but I could be completely wrong. The number of the property is either 131 or 135 and I've not been able to find a reference to it in any of the old Wigan Directories.
Hi Keith, it was Galvin's Temperance Bar. Took a pic for photo a day (13th Feb 09).
Comment by: Keith Bowen on 12th April 2009 at 23:34
Thank you for clearing that up Brian, hadn't realised you'd already submitted a previous photo.
Comment by: Mick on 13th April 2009 at 01:46
Also a close up of shop sign in 'Shops Around Wigan' in 'Work' section of album.
Comment by: Mark Conroy on 13th April 2009 at 06:01
I think that the father of Tom Whalley, who owned the pet shop, ran this temperance bar at one time.
Comment by: Jimmy on 13th April 2009 at 13:53
This is number 131 it is now G Swift monumental masons.
If you look closely you can see a headstone through the window.
Comment by: Joan Beckett(Wilding) on 23rd October 2010 at 00:19
Your right Jimmy this is most definatly a shop that carves headstones
Comment by: Geoff Leyland on 11th July 2012 at 23:16
It is 131 and the Monumental Mason's, my grandparents and father lived at 129 until the early 1960s.
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