Wigan Album

Thankyou for posting this; it's lovrly to see the old shops again. Dennis Miller, hope you've seen this.

GOOD PHOTO JOHN PITY IT DIDN,T SHOW MORE OF THE INN, I BELIVE THERE IS A BUILDING GOING UP NOW P.S. JOHN DO YOU REMEMBER FITTING ME A FRONT DOOR WHEN I LIVED IN ASHTOH

I wonder what has happened to the space they left when demolished ?

Helen. the pub on the far left, red brick with a green door was the Platt Bridge Inn, and the pub to the far right with the red sign on the wall was...still is...The Queens. I worked at them both. The road veering to the left now runs straight through where the shops were, and there is a little roudabout. The Platt Bridge Inn, derelict for many years, has now been demolished and a Tesco Express, a betting shop and a bakery are currently being built on the site.

platt bridge inn .fruit n veg shop. bookies,pats clothes shop 'beestons pie shop .chippy

I can go further back than this. Geoff Gaskell, do you remember - Williams Deacons Bank, Tripe shop (pre. bookies, I lived there), John Gregory (pet shop), Butcher's, Cliff's Radio, Drapery shop, Dolly Winstanley's, Latham's (pre Beeston's), Cilla's chippy. !

You missed out at least three Marilyn,Shoe Repair Shop,Parrs Grocers,and Lizzys Toffee Shop at the end

Thanks for posting this - I'm a Platt Bridger of only the last 20 years - brings back good memories.

I have seen it Irene. :-)

Marilyn, I used to be an order boy for Dolly Winstanley. I would cart orders out on Saturday morning to houses up and down Platt Bridge.

HI Geoff I do remember it was 1970, I also remember the timber yard and Perks, is your shoulder still sore,happy days.

The first shop in the row facing the tree boarded up and painted green was if my memory serves me right the old William Deacoons Bank. I was only very young but I do recall this is what this was, I lived in Walthew Lane, opposite the Post Office.

HI MARILYN DO YOU REMEMBER THE SHOPS ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE INN. RUSHTON'S GROCERS WHICH THEN WAS BARRY'S MOTOR CYCLES AND NEXT DOOR BOLAN'S CAFE AND CAKE SHOP THEN DRONEY TAILORS ASPINALL FURNITURE HIGSONS BARBERS AND THE LAST SHOP WHICH HAD BEEN EVERYTHING AND THE SHOP NEXT TO THE INN ABBOTTS DRY CLEANERS.

I remember Webster's Butchers and they also had a Butchers van that they did home deliveries after the shop closed in the evenings. What great service.... it's sad its all gone.

Hi Geoff, yes I do remember all of the shops across from the Inn which you mention. John Bolan was my uncle and he died last year in his nineties. I remember the Bolans were quite friendly with your mum and dad. I mentioned you and these Platt Bridge pictures yesterday when I was visiting Geoff Jones and his wife Pat, do you remember Jones' cake shop at Abram?

Anyone remember the old shops from the King Billy to Davies St. C Jones Cycle Shop. Ingrams Off Licence.Mortons Grocers. S Rowlands. Clogger. Livseys Toffee Shop.Deakins Butchers

HI MARILN I REMEMBER JONE,S VERY WELL, IS THIER STILL A BAKE SHOP THIER. ILOST TRACK OF YOUR UNCLE JOHN YEARS AGO, DO YOU EVER HEAR OF ALERANDRA THE LAST I KNOW THAT SHE LIVED IN LONDON

marilyn do u remember me im cliff stephens granddaughter davina