Wigan Album

Great photo. It seemed very unusual to have a church directly on the pavement as it were. Brings back many memories looking down Greenough St. again.

Can't stop looking at this photo. I didn't know Scholes well but I remember walking down Greenough Street to go to Central Park with my schoolfriend June and her Dad on Saturday afternoons. June and I had knitted ourselves scarves in cherry-and-white stripes and they went longer every time they were washed! Wasn't Reg Sutton's outfitters down Greenough Street? I can remember someone from the shop coming to our house and measuring my brother for a suit, and then coming to the house every Saturday for weekly payments. That's just how it was back then.

The shop was just on the corner Irene if I remember. You’re right about the weekly
payments too. My mam paid weekly to buy clothes for us from Wigan Agency. The place had been a school building near Harrogate St. The front of the church was on Darlington St. I believe my maternal grandmother went to the school as a child and she was brought up on Darlington St. very near the school.

I remember those clothes vouchers, Veronica. They were called "Provident Cheques" and our Mams paid so much a week. Unfortunately, they were only able to be used at certain shops....one was called "Gunn's", which was somewhere around the Dicconson Street area.....and their prices were higher than in other shops, so the less-well-off lost out as usual because they couldn't afford the cash payments in places like British Home Stores, where the prices were cheaper.

It just seems like yesterday looking at this photo.

My mam paid weekly with cash to a neighbours daughter who worked at Wigan Agencies Irene. I had the job of taking the money to her at her house. I remember the last thing I got there was a green wool ‘ slack’ coat. When I left school I bought all my own clobber. I do remember Gunns though as I had a friend who went to the one in Dicconson St.

I can remember a large bible in the chapel window as I viewed it from a bus going to News Springs. Dr.Johnson’s a little further down on the right.

That was one of our many ways to get to Central Park,get off the bus in Ince,have a few pints then up Birkett Bank to enjoy the rugby.

I take it that where the car and the Methodist Church on the left are, is where Boyswell House is now?

That was one of our many ways to get to Central Park,get off the bus in Ince,have a few pints then up Birkett Bank to enjoy the rugby.

That's more or less right John.

Dr Johnsons Surgery on the right of the road sign.