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Now that's what you call a SLUM area. I don't eat McDonalds but the place is tidy and clean, maybe the Council CAN do something right.

I supposed the shops served the public well in their day, I remember Websters Butchers in the centre, they also did deliveries in a mobile Butchers van.

Which Mcdonalds???

Looks like Liverpool rd Platt Bridge.

Platt Bridge.

Platt-Bridge...read the Caption.

great photo.. forgot what it looked like! To be fair when I was a kid, them, shops was all busy busy with customers! The photos is taken just before the demolishing started. The Tackle shop moved further towards Abram, Mr English chips was fab! At the end of the row as TSB bank, but wasnt it something else before it was demolished?

Garry... it was no slum area. That photograph was taken when the shops where closed and ready to be demolished, in fact, work has already started. When the stores where open and it use they looked very different.

http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/5/hhl5jtrd.jpg

I will grant the buildings were run down, but it was far from a slim area.

Point taken Dennis.

ther was a woolshop news agents arrcade bandits three c hair dressers tsb butchers tackle shop pie shop near bank that pics about 15 years old

I remember when all those shops were open and trading well..

The fishing tackle shop was my grandads John Gregory. My dad (Bryan) lived above the shop, i don't recall him metioning pets though, perhaps it was pet supplies rather than actual pets. We used to drive past it in the 70s & 80s on our way to Hindley and i remember the iron bars on my dads bedroom window at the back. Not sure what road went down behind the shop though. Me and brother thought the bars were there to stop him escaping. But really it was because the shop also sold shotguns and air rifles. I don't remember the shop looking that grotty though.