Wigan Album

think that shop on left was a second hand shop and next door was a printers,i remember taking a tansad and a transister radio to her that had second hand shop ,she gave me £3 i was desperate then and took it it got us over a couple of days,potatoes ,bread and milk.

How awful that must have been for you, Josie, but you lived to tell the tale! The shop on the other side of the road was called "Josie's" and was an off-licence and sweet-shop. Do you recall a little clothes-shop in the late 80s/early 90s, further up towards The Queens? It was run by a man who let some women take clothes before they were paid for, having promised to bring in regular payments, which of course they didn't, and he put their names in the window? The shop didn't last long. not surprisingly!

Wasn't Salters Chemist's and a wallpaper and paint shop, owned by two sisters,on the right.

Yes, Salter's was there, and the wallpaper shop was Brown's.

I can remember seeing a 'Topper' Annual in the window of the second hand shop when I was a lad. I looked forward all week to getting my 40p of Dolly Winstanley (I was her order boy) so that I could go and buy it. Come the Saturday, with 40p clutched in hand I rushed there to get it.... TRAGEDY!!!! It had been sold. I was seriously miffed. Dejected and defeated I went home. Only to find my Aunt Esther was the person who had bought it... for me! JOY!!!!

This album section is brilliant! It sparks all sorts of things you had forgotten.