Wigan Album

I remember the fair from Ashton-in M. marketplace as a lad in the early 1970's. It came in spring and again in autumn - always exciting to see the big trucks rolling down Wigan Road.

iremeber platt bridge fair being at the back of platt bridge palace during the war years the compleat fair ground was coverd with black canvas sheeting

I remember a Waltzer like this used to be at Wigan Fair.The fair was held on the cobbled car park next to the Market Hall. There was a ride called the Caterpillar as well, a big yellow cover used to come over the top & there you'd be, going round & round in the pitch black dark ! Great memories of Wigan Fair.

hi owd platt bridger ,got that dvd of old platt bridge footage thank you

I to remember Silcocks Fair behind the Palace,fairground rides,roll a penny stalls,coconut shies,shooting stalls. Happy Days!

irememder that waltzer, well sadly it got burned out in 93,i remember all the caravan parked next 2 the old b+i works which became the kelbit works. now the only fairs about is john who gos 2 leigh and aston and a l silcock who gos 2 hindley n wigan i wounder what happened 2 the silcock brothers who came 2 platt bridge i no old herbie always came in the old days its just a shame lawrence joey and young herbie didnt carry it on like j and a silcock have with the places there dads went to.nobody got any pictures of the fair on the land be4 kwiksave got built

i remember silcocks fair at the side of st georges school in scholes.it were in the 70s then.

Herbie Silcock used to have a great big Maroon caravan. he once shouted to me when I was playing around the fairground on a day when it was closed... Oy! he said come here, as I went to him, he was leaning out of the caravan door wearing a bowler hat. he asked if I would get him 20 Stirling from the newspaper shop on Ince bar. when I got back to his caravan to give him the change he thanked me and gave me a wad of free tickets for the rides....a grand chap.. Is he the one buried in Hindley Cemetary?

I recall visiting the fair in Wigan when I was at the Grammar School. It must have been 1946-7 when it came back after the war. We were stood on the steps of the waltzer and one poor chap on the ride was really ill. Every time the car spun, he threw up.That put me off fair ground rides for life!!

my dad george lowe was manager for lawrence silcock srn of warrington he look after this waltzer i remember building and pulling the waltzer down and sitting in the paybox with my dad working the waltzer at bonny st carpark blackpool the staff lads was kevin and paddy from blackpool is kevin and paddy sill alive i have got a lot of old photos with this ride of the waltzer from whenit was new and then past to young lawrence and his brother joerey the last time i seen the waltzer was at pickmere lake with a new pay box yours robert

Does any one remember les Stanley on the fair ground in black pool for silcocks in the 1960s

is the staff lads who was on this waltzer kevin and paddy from blackpool as my dad George lowe was manager on the waltzer

I worked on this for many years. Young Joey and Lawrence still going strong. Burger vans there thing now. Based in Accrington

Re: 20 Sterlig
Herbie Silcock never smokèd a cig.
Kind regard his grandson Edward