Wigan Album
Melbourne Street, Wigan
13 CommentsPhoto: Carol Farmer (nee Greenall)
Item #: 22894
oh carol, this is just a wonderfull photo what a lovely st just imagin living there in that time when everybody was your friend and neighbor no d*** heads like today just pleasent tranquil times, poor but rich in life, i grew up in 50s so this remindes me of my wonderful childhood nothing like what kids today could comprehend !!! we had nowt really but were sooooo happy just playing out allllllll day didnt want to come in !!!! and couldnt wait to wake up to do it all again, my grandson age 17 just said hummm ime bored nowt do,he has everything we never even dreamd about, lap top i phone ,big telly in bedroom, double bed ,own room,top clothes, money for nowt ,oh i could go on, but i would rather my childhood than his !!! they not gratefull for owt kids ,how did our parent go on no mobiles nemind a house phone ha ha ha it bugs me how kids of today think they got nowt and i suppose its not theire fault really they been brought up this way ,even me wants our grandkids have everything so its us to blame in the end , well thats my gripe over .
by the way carol i was born in same year as your pic, 1950 new years eve.
The picture was in the History Shop - what a fantastic place it is. I am interested in the street as many of my family have lived there from ~ 1860 to 1939.
I wish my husband could have seen this he was born in this street
I'm a bit confused. Accordng to the map, Hopwood Street joins onto Adelaide Street and Victoria Street. I can't seem to see a Melbourne Street...
Loz, Adelaide st later became Melbourne st.
Fancy electric lighting for 1950 still gas lamps in our street in the fifties with lamp lighter doing his rounds.
Don't fool yourselves. This looks like summert out of Dickens. The reality was probably totally different: no money; no nice clothes; no holidays; no prospects...Instead: drunkeness; poverty; hardship; and little escape from drudgery. Good old days? Behave yourself!
Hi! Love this photo found my great grandad moved to Adelaide Street then Melbourne Street.. so can only presume it changed the name during that time.. he lived @ 22 Melbourne Street in 1921.. Timothy Smith
????????????
I was in born in melbourne street 1950 had three brothers and four sisters plus mam and dad in a 2 up 2 down there was never any burglars cos we had nowt to pinch poor but happy.
Certainly an evocative picture but I doubt it was the utopia many from our generation claim it was and still yearn after
Would I like to go back?
Despite the never ending and constant complaints about the way in which Wigan has progressed and developed and of what we see as the perceived failings in society in general today, the answer from me is a definite and resounding "no".
Jackie Webb, I am just researching my family history and found out that my grandad William Ratchford lived at 26 Adelaide St, and my Great Grandad also William Ratchford lived at 44 Adelaide St.
Hi Gill Mul
My great grandad was Timothy Smith lived at 26 Adelaide Street 1911… he was widowed with 5 Children and died at 8 Melbourne Street 1922
Jackie ??