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fishing shop, fruit veg shop, buchers.news agents, rathbones pie shop,dennis was balls toffy shop on this row

Yes it was Ste. There was the TSB bank (just out of shot to the right)... then Bob Foster's Butchers, then Morton's groceries, and then Ball's Sweet Shop and Temperance Bar. I *think* Ball's was the boarded up shop in the photograph.

Was the Butchers shop Websters?

bob yes was websters buchers

Bob, it may have been at one time, but I am sure Websters was over the road on the corner of Stephen Street? But the one in the photograph was definitely Bob Fosters in the 60s. My mum and dad lived in Car Street until I was five, then they moved into the flat above Fosters Butchers. I can remember him very well, despite being so young. When my mum was due with my brother he cut a hole into the wall next to his shop telephone so my dad could reach it from the flat if my mum needed to get to Billinge... you simply do NOT get people of his like these days.

I am sure when Fosters closed down it then became a launderette, and then a solicitors office.

think thats lyndseys hairdressers with canopy (look ahead)i worked at a sewing place just on the left near the red car it was aldon sportswear, the building was a chapel or small church does anyone know what it was called?

Websters Butchers was in the same row and on the same side as Fosters Butchers. Websters was nearer to the top end next to a newsagents and for the life of me I cannot remember it's name. Also in that row, probably with a small gap between the shops was Mrs Atherton's dress shop - can anyone else remember this too? I am sure that at the other end of the row was a shoe repairers and again I cannot recall its name.

There was a tiny William and Glyn's Bank which was on Walthew Lane, start of the next row of shops next to the King Billy Pub - I think it closed in the early 1960's.

I was born in Ince but used to visit a schoolfriend who lived over Webster's butchers and I remember the church well; I think it was the Primitive Methodists. Methodist churches were usually known as chapels and the street down the side was (still is) Chapel Street. We were moved to Platt Bridge in 1971 and I moved to Abram on marriage in 1974 and vaguely remember the chapel when it was a sewing place.

thanks irene

The fruit and veg shop was Seth Ratcliffes.

The chapel was the Zion Mathodists, I used to go there.

The Chapel was the Primitive Methodist (prims) the shoe repair shop was Warings and the newsagents was Smethursts. I remember the Butchers being Alf Dowding where I worked as a lad taking out orders on the delivery bike.Shades of Granvil

Shades of Granville Steve? Just curious as I used to work at the Queens Pub and we had a customer called Granville.

Irene sorry I mispelt Granville I was referring to Granville in Open All Hours and the comparison.

Daft me.....it never clicked what you meant! Thanks.

love the photos,just woundering if anyone has any old photos of the old fair ground in platt bridge be4 kwiksave got built

Remember all shops mentioned,had my first highlights at look ahead,and balls toffee shop, and denis's fruit and veg when i was a kid great pics many thanks for many memories.Dennis

THE PAPER SHOP 2 DOORS FROM WEBSTERS BUTCHERS WAS CALLED SHAWS DAVID & JOHN SHAW LIVED THER I USE 2 GO SCHOOL WITH DAVE CANT REMEMBER THERE MAM AND DAD NAME I LIVED IN PLATT BRIDGE 63YRS I WAS A WALTHEW LANER

Les, I think you knew my Mam and Dad, Bob and Tizzie Griffiths, They used to go in The Inn, King Billy and Vic. There is a photo of them on one of the earlier pages of these Platt Bridge pics.

Many thanks for putting this photo and others on Wigan World.I can see my mother's shop (Gore's Hardware at the junction of Green Street and Liverpool Road, which we left in 1968), and can also make out other shops that I remember from childhood (e.g. Seth Ratcliffe's greengrocers, Wareing's clog shop, and Ball's Temperance Bar, where Vimto and the penny tray were treats to us as children).

Thanks to Dennis Miller, Thomas Sutch and others who've added photos to the site, and to my good friend Irene Roberts for drawing my attention to them.

Great memories,I used to live (1956 to 77) at 641, Liverpool Road, that is the house next to the one with the advertizing hording at the top of the pic.
I vividly remember the smell from the parafin tank in the lean to at the rear of Gores hardware shop. Mrs Gore always let us kids play games in there when it was raining. Dennis and Jeff Carroll along with myself were frequent visitors calling to play "murder" "risk" etc with Peter and Mary.

You are right, KathhWal. Atherton's was between Ball's and the gap. Hilda and Jim were my uncle and aunt. I lived with them and my cousin Barbara for my last year at WGS, 59-60. I don't remember when they sold it - mid 60's I think.

I lived in the flat above Websters shop with my parents from 1963 to 1972. One of my memories is from Christmas when Dick, John and John Junior would work well into the early hours of the morning preparing joints of meat and turkeys for collection. I never got much sleep around Christmas time. They also had an outhouse at the back which we had to walk through to get to our entrance. On Monday John would prepare brawn in what looked like an old bathtub? the smell was awful and I had to hold my breath when passing through.
Seth and Marian Radcliffe lived next door with Denis who was in a group which used to practice on a regular basis. Free concerts.

I lived across the road at 674. My sister was friends with Anne Webster and in later years my first husband used to sing in the group with Dennis Ratcliffe. Small world

my grandad had websters butchers and my dad is john junior.i remeber going to shop at weekends helping grandad it was great.the veg shop was nexted door

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My mum used to have balls shop from 69 to 77 happy memories.

Love reading the comments. My grandad and my dads uncle had the butchers shop. My dad is John Jr. Loved going to the shop on Saturday afternoons. Cutting the cheese and making the window look nice. Happy memories. X