Wigan Album

i never knew tom whalley had a pet shop in the wiend,does anyone know when he moved to millgate next door to the clinic.

I remember the one in Millgate it was called Cocaine House

I feel quite emotional.Dave Marsh,Tom Whalley's Saturday boy circa 1955.The pay was good.

Where that bloke is walking down the flags in the middle.
On his left was Russell Lyons Barbers..

That's right,art,and also there was in fact a bookies office,it was Joe Kennedy.Obviously it wasn't a betting shop as I have had pointed out, but Mr.Kennedy had an office there.Next to the barbers was Harry Jones, a bespoke gents tailors.

Tickle's shop was up there too, before it became Standards; a fascinating shop where you cuold buy all kinds of things. It wasn't posh in Tickle's, but oh! what character that place had compared with the shops in the Grand Arcade.

Yes,thats just jolted my memory,wasn't the barbers shop the only shop in Wigan where Marilyn Monroe's photo in the nude was displayed and all the lads in town went to have a peep,it wouldn't be so shocking nowadays would it?.Irene, tickles shop was like aladdins cave wasn't it,I loved going in there,shops like that have disappeared,mores the pity.

Brilliant photo. I worked at Madam Blackshaws hairdressers from 1965, the shop was at the front underneath Joe Kennedys.

The Printers on the left between the barbers and Harry Jones' was The Wiend Press owned by the Griffin family

The printing works on the left was originally run by my grandfather, James Gummerson, and taken over by Arthur Griffin on his retirement.

I remember the printer's/stationery shop on the left, still have a paper punch I got there in 1970! Also remember the barber's and Tickle's. I remember Whalley's being on the corner of Millgate, that would be 60's and 70's.

Smith had a newspaper stand before his son, an ex teacher, opened Smith's on Mesnes Street (not WH Smith). Possibly late nineteen sixties.