Wigan Album

Beautiful!!!! bet it was cold going to the toilet?

bill , i absolutly love these photos as it is a reminder of my childhood although i lived up bell green lane the houses and outside toilets look the same and it takes me back to those wonderful days,thanks bill, i am waiting for photos of york st hr ince somebody must have one.

what a great photo.the fence and wall with the trees at the end of frederick st colin bradbury lived there.the house windows you can see just over coping stones top left of picture were in leader st i lived in the corner house top of hill florence st / leader st

we lived in Kirkless Street from 1950 to 1951 next door lived Billie and Alice Jones and two doors up Mr Ince who was injured in the 1st Word War.Us kids went to Rose Bridge Methodist Primary School Mr Lancaster was Headmaster.We used to play down at Clarington Brook "Clarrie" it was flooded in the mid fifties.We used to have our Bonfire at the back of the houses.At the corner of Kirkless street was post office on one side and the gloggers on the other with Jacks Chemist close by "Jack come again"We left in 1951 to a brand new council house in Beech Hill.

Re my comments i should have said we lived there from 1950 to 1961 we left in 1961