Wigan Album

I remember workmen taking a couple of courses of stone off the top of this wall to create the wall at the front of the car park at the other side of the church. The stocks seem to be in their more familiar place during the late 40's too.

The cyclist could be an early edition of Mick.

This is a more familiar view of the cross, stocks and well to those of us who were around in the 40s. My mother used to send me to May Smith,s for a loaf (50 yard walk) by the time i got the loaf home half the brown crust had been consumed, she wasn,t very happy, but probably sent me again the next day.

vimto lollies i remember them but never knew the name of owner next door,them kids in the background would have been washing the water out of the puddulls with their wellies ,done it many atime a the same spot int fifties .

Are there any WW2 Emergency Water Supply (EWS) signs still visible in Wigan?

Taylors shop where we used to buy the Vimto ice lollies Alan was across the road (on the same side as St Wilfrid's junior school).

I think the shop further up than Taylors was Allens. We used to buy 2oz kali and a 1/2d black spanish from there.

Linda, from Taylors shop going left it is May Smiths(general provisions) Mrs Finch (private house) then you can just see the door to Amos Allens (greengrocers)next was a private house, then Sam Hales (butcher and general). The house on the right of Bradley Lane was occupied by Molly Pilkington and parents etc.

The shop on the right of Bradley lane was the pilkington but it was
Mollys grandparents that lived there they also brought up John
Pilkington there grandson whose parents lived in Bradley lane
Mollys parents moved to yorkshire