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Psychadelica next door!! Spinning paper and squirting paint!!!

whats the place next door on chapel lane

Would be interested to know what was next door to the left of the pub. The building with the yellow front and blue swirl?

micky east - the premises next to the pub on Chapel Lane was a hairdressers - number 62 or 62a Chapel Lane, if I remember rightly. Above and behind it were flats/bedsits, which were little better than squats, and occupied by some very unsavoury characters.

Brian - as Ste mentions above, it was called 'Psychedelica' it was a 'create your own art' place, where you could squirt coloured ink on a sheet of paper which was rotating on a turntable, to create a psychedelic picture. At the time this pic was taken, I think it had been closed for a while.

I think Ste Wigan has the answer - Psychedelica or something.

The hairdessers front was a window painted green, the chap who owned it, his name wa Bolton, nice friendly chubby little bloke...Where I used to have a crop, a lorra years ago ;o)

There used to be one of those paper/paint spinning places on Market Street somewhere near where JJB used to be; that would be in the mid 70s.

Art - was that not on Darlington St, just past the Psychedelica place previously mentioned? There was a little barber's shop with a green painted window there for years.

I cant even work out where this is, will someone please explain.

Corner of Chapel Lane and Darlington St Gee H - at the bottom of King St. There is now a car park on this spot.

Yep, Mick. that's what I meant, it was on Darlington St.

There was a Gents Toilet on the left hand side,just before Chapel Lane railway bridge.

across the road, in darlington street, opposite the derby arms on the corner, the registrars office stood, it had a white painted window with births, deaths and marraiges painted on in black

Cornelius Latchford was the Registrar.

i remember it now, pity the photo dosnt show Kays, the second hand shop, used to get work boots from there for my husband, many years ago, they were second hand, or third hand, they were 2/6 a pair i think, he had them all hung up with thier laces.

Remember in the late '60s Kayes selling ex-Army gasmasks for about two or three bob each. Half the kids in Wigan were charging about wearing them.

lol mick, i was one of those kids.

Mick - those gas masks came from Ashton Baths courtesy of Gareth Hughes (The Booze).
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Thanks Kenee!

A little further down Darlington Street, from the Derby Arms, the Wigan Borough Police Garage was situated. John Knipe was the fitter there.

Remember being taken to to Cornelius Latchford's probably after my Grandad died and going to look at the fire engines in the old Wigan Borough fire station after.

I'm almost sure the Hairdressers was Irene Worthingtons..think it was where she first started out.

Psycedelica was owned by Mr. McCarthy. His daughter, Angela, was my school friend at St. Cuthberts and the convent. From what I remember he brought the idea back from Spain. I went in there a couple of times

Peggy mapson,s toffee shop was next door. My mother lived over the top and my mother moss, her mother lived on the third floor way back in the 40s

The barbers shop was Walter Browns which was taken over by his son who ran it till the buildings were demolished in 1984/5