Wigan Album

this is pre most things
it certainly brings back memories
it was before makerfield way.
that road is actually petticoat lane which was the main road onto the new council estate which was still being built around the time the picture was taken
if you have any more like this please post them

Outstanding photos mate of scenes long gone,please put the Walmsley park ones on would love to see the bandstand again.

Brilliant photo, the middle one of the 3 houses on the right was were I was born and raised, until we got a council house in the same street as gozzer. Please put the others of Ince park on thats allmy childhood there, thank you. and you are right it is pre Morrisons

forgot to mention but if you look closly you can just make out the slag tip behind our old house

great pic!!!!!!!!,
do you have any pics of the old houses that used to be at the bottom of moat house street???

HI A GOOD PHOTO OF PETTICOAT LANE AND THE SANDS I WAS BORN IN 29 ISLAND ROW THE MIDDLE COTTAGE ON THE RIGHT MRS BRADOCK LIVED IN THE ONE NEAR THE LANE AND MRS WATMORE LIVED IN THE ONE NEXT TO THE FIELD . WE LIVED THERE TILL I WAS ABOUT 11YEARS OLD ME AND MY THREE BROTHERS WE LIVED THERE THROUGH THE WAR LONG BEFORE THE COUNCIL HOUSE WHERE BUILT WHEN IT WAS A SMALL OLDING

what a exellent photo,it is possible to see the end of our house on the right where the van is. the brook ran down the backs of the houses and along side ours into a pipe under the road down too island row. the road was a dirt road from mrs bithells shop up into the early sixties

have you of the top of petticoat lane my Aunite use live there in the 1965 In the cottages

i was born in 65 and i remember a small shop that was at the bottom of petticoat lane, not bithalls which were further up and there was a chippy as well. i don't remember the cottages on the right but remember island row and the brook. my auntie alice used to live in the middle of 3 cottages in factory fold. 2 up 2 down and brick outside loo. they were knocked down around 89 i think.

I am trying to trace

June Howarth who became June Bithell after marrying Ronald Bithell
in 1961

Their address was Petticoat Lane Wigan

I believe the had a son Micheal and a daughter who was in the Army at one time and was a Police Officer

Micheal has sadly passed away and I need to at least notify his mother June Bithell

She may have become Corris and or Mcnab subsequently and is understood to still live in the area as Micheal visited her at Christmas time 2018 I believe

All attempts by Essex Police to trace or contact them have failed due to lack of any factual information

However today I found a copy of the above person marriage certificate which lead Me to Petticoat Lane and to here

My number is 08444131778 if anyone can help us in this search as We have his personal effects etc abd they need to know of his Passing

Thank You Steve Davis

My grandparents live in the house on the right William and Mary Anne Watmough.They had 13 children and i only remember 5 living.We used to visit every Sunday from Bolton on the 59 bus and spent many happy hours playing on the common and in the park.Aunties and uncles and cousins would turn up every Sunday.

My grandad lived in one of the council houses on Petticoat lane with his wife and 4 children. 2 of these are still alive today. He had a house on the right of the photo and at the front onto the main road. There was a farm at the top with a piebald cob and cart.

My gran & grandad Thomas & Molly Edwards lived in Petticoat lane. I used to visit with my dad Robert or (TEDDY) as he was known by some. Their house was by the lane which ran round the back of the houses near Auntie Annies shop. He also had Shire horses. Used to go out on a horse and cart selling kindling with my brother Derek. Happy day's.

Hi. I am trying to trace my Maternal great grandmother. My grandmother was your grandmother's sister. Annie (Ellen Anne Halsall). Always thought that she and your grandmother were Bithells. But on tracing their birth surnames were actually Halsall. I used to visit Aunty Molly frequently as a child. I think she was actually christened Mary.