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Crispin Arms circa 1955.
Photo: Keith Bowen
Photo: Keith Bowen
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Item #: 1768
Item #: 1768
Another view this time looking up Birkett Bank. The top end of Birkett Bank had been bombed in a Zeppelin raid in 1918 when 27 bombs rained down on this district of Wigan a total of 27 bombs were dropped and about 17 people were killed. Carrington's millinery shop can be seen, next door would have been the TV and radio shop where the Meadows family lived and which could have been the old Raven pub which closed sometime since 1881. The open entrance was next and this allowed free entry to the back of the shops. This was between Meadows shop and Berry's grocery shop. Only an open green space exists today where once these premises flourished.
Comment by: joymcs on 24th August 2007 at 20:16
tTHE RAVEN PUB WHICH IS MENTIONED WAS CLOSED SOMETIME AFTER 1901 I KNOW THIS BECAUSE MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS JAMES AND ELIZABETH BARNES HAD THIS PUB THEY LIVED THERE WITH THEIR 6/7 CHILDREN IT WAS 27/29 BIRKETT BANK NOT SURE WHEN IT WAS DEMOLISHED I THINK HE DIED WHILE IN THE PUB
Comment by: Tom Walsh on 10th February 2012 at 00:39
I remember Meadow's Shop, if memory serves me right I think his first name was Len, however it was the first place I ever saw a television , it was in their living room,the programme was Chidrens Hour. In those days after that programme ,television would go off air untill 7pm.,Before we got electricity installed my Dad would take the accumulator there to be charged.
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