Wigan Album

Hi Janice, very interesting picture. Used to be quite a close knit community of 18..20 houses or so on that corner of Booths Brow and Rectory Rd, I would never have known only for your pics.. Thank you..

Hi Janet, glad you like the photo cant believe how many photos will's grandad took all those years ago, just glad he did. This is only a small sample we will show you the album when you come over by the way we got your ticket for the reunion on Monday look forward to seeing you.

Thanks Janice for getting my reunion ticket and for all the photos,I will look forward to looking at the album when I get over there..

Janice, I'm so sorry, I said I'd be looking forward to seeing the album and of course I'm looking forward very much to seeing you too, but I clicked on send before I put that part on. Mind and fingers not coordinated today.. Sorry :-)

great pic. janice,

This picture sorts it all out about the exact whereabouts of the now infamous Pig Street. Thanks for sharing it Janice.

Hi Sue, its easy to make sense of when you can see all the properties in front of you , but was a little difficult to explain, the photo is not the best quality but interesting so thought it was worth putting on to clear it up. The people in the picture are Back Row lt. Jem Ryder,Daughter-in-Law Rachael (Bill's wife) Front Row Lt. Olive Ryder, Harold Ryder and Robert Ryder. At the time living in Pig Street were 1. Jack Slater (collier) 2.Banks Sudworth (collier) 3.Eccles 4.Woolham (collier) 5.Harold Sudworth (clogger) 6.John Halliwell 7.Ernie Critchley 8.Tommy Dean 9.Austin Beasley (Collier) And at the top end nearest to the church was a small saw mill. In the houses on Booths Brow Rd there lived two more Sudworths Tommy at number 4 and Jimmy had the shop on the corner on Rectory Road all 4 brothers living within a stones throw of each other. The cottages were one up and one down, only four had back gardens, and only number 4 nd 5 had back doors, the other two with back gardens had to climb through the window to get into them. Some of the cottages had cellars. They were built from stone and had one cold water tap. The good old days eh. lol.