Wigan Album

Just checked with the other photograph of Leyland's Shoe Shop in Greenough Street and it's the same shop. Problem solved

Ron ,was this the shop later taken over by Lawrence Isherwood,the artist.
It looks very much like it to me,I remember the shop next door to his shop was a chipshop,and on this picture the adjoining shop appears to be a chippy !. Further evidence to make me believe this is the photogragh of Laylands shop on Darlington Street,was also taken over by the Isherwood family.

I recall that Leyland's had two daughters who married two brothers Lawrence and Gordon Isherwood. Gordon opened a shoe Shop in Darlington St East after the war,I lived across the road from it. I well remember him placing a sign outside the shop " Plimsolls in Stock" and we did not know what he meant, they were "pumps " to us, and scarce at the time, He soon sold out.

Hi Alba the two sisters were molly (mary) and Florence Banks from Pemberton whos Father Richard Started Banks Funerals.

Memory via my Mother in Law Molly Isherwood she often tells the tale that just after the war leather was still hard to get ,but they managed to get some and Gordon made some sandals that sold like hot cakes. And My Hubby recalls being in his pram outside Darlington street shop throwing his toys to anybody that would put them back.

lawrence Isherwood was once in the shop at Darlington st when i was in buying shoes i was only 18 it was a sat afternoon rollers in hair ready for Sat night at Blackpool with Walls coaches{ince}.He asked me where i was going in my new shoes i told him with my mates to Blackpool so he had a laugh and a joke with me and who i thought was his sister, when i was paying for my shoes he said save your money for Blackpool have those shoes on me a real gent he was.
Ilived on the next row to the shop.

This is a fantastic image - I always remember the paintings displayed on the right hand side of the windows, especially the old lady in a shawl. I wasn't a fan of Isherwood's paintings but I believe they fetch a lot of money now. He was too vibrant and modern for my taste but he had great freedom of expression.

I'm almost sure that lady walking by the shop was a teacher at St Pats she was called Miss Holland.