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Hello i knew your dad, i lived at no7 tram st. i knew your mam and grandfather. i was shocked to hear about your dad

why was this part of tram st known as niggers alley was it a corruption of niggards alley ?

my great grandfather patrick riley lived in 123 tram st.till he died down bamforlong pit in 1906

I know this is going to sound bad but in those days that's the way it was - a spade was a spade. I always understood that it was called Nigger's Alley because many of the kids there didn't have shoes or clogs to wear and as a result their bare feet were always black.

Hello anyone reading this. I have my dads birth certificate, and it states that he was born at 61 Tram Street in 1912. His mother and father were Margaret and George Pilkington.I visited the address in approx. 1990 and the houses at around that number now have a church standing where they must of been. Anyone have anything that may help my curiosity please.

Further to my last request, my grandad George Pilkington was born in 10 Shaws Yard,Boys Well Lane,U.S.D.( don't know what that is ),in 1887 and his father was Thomas Pilkington and his mother was Elizabeth Pilkington ( formerly Yates ).I have been on Google earth and various sites but no sign of Shaws Yard. Any information will be tremendous Thank You.

Boys Well Lane ran between and parallel to Greenough Street and Upper Morris Street in the Scholes area of Wigan.
"USD" on George's birth certificate means Urban Sanitary District (of Wigan).

My gran,Ellen Jane (nee Kelly)and her first husband,Charles Edward Anderson must have lived in Tram St in 1915/16,as their baby,James Edward,died aged 6mnths.....the address on Ince Cemetery records gave his address as Tram St. Charles Edward died in WW1,a year after he married. My gran then married my grandad,Eli Evans

My grandfather Thomas and grandmother Alice lived at number 11 Tram Street 1927-1933. Grandfather's brother James died in the Maypole Colliery disaster in 1908. I would be interested to learn of any family related information .

Looking through the Wigan world website I noticed some familiar names, I lived at 19 Tram Street Platt Bridge

My dad lived in Tram Street Platt Bridge Michael Belshaw he had a sister Maureen a brother Peter he, was born in 1935 his mother died probably around 1949 his father Peter did remarry some years later my dad always talked about the fields opposite the row of houses I'm sure he said you could see all the way across to Warrington

I was born in 55 Tram St in 1946.
My Nana lived there. She was Annie Gardner (nee Seddon).
We lived in 67 Tram St, my Grandmother's house Esther and Joe Unsworth.