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Scholes / Millgate
Scholes / Millgate
Photo: Brian Laithwaite
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Item #: 25253
Bridge to Central Station.

Comment by: irene roberts on 12th June 2014 at 19:41

What was the shop that has the "Sale" posters in the window? Some would call these slums, and maybe they were, but I find it heartbreaking that these lovely, (to my eyes, anyway), buildings have gone. I'm so glad someone took a photo for posterity.

Comment by: owd viewer on 13th June 2014 at 00:10

The Horseshoe Hotel was on left just out of view. I think there was a pop merchants (Bartons) on same row & a jewellers. Does anyone remember these?

Comment by: JP on 13th June 2014 at 00:13

You are so right Irene..

Comment by: tony k on 13th June 2014 at 09:40

the shop that as the sale sign was my wifes grandma kelly cafe

Comment by: A.W. on 13th June 2014 at 10:20

Davenport's watch and clock repairs was on the left till the mid 80s when these buildings were demolished. The business then moved to King Street till the owners retired in the 1990s, Davenport's had a shop in Wigan in the 1800s.

Comment by: Thomas(Tom)Walsh. on 13th June 2014 at 10:50

Owd Viewer the jewellers you mention was Davenports. The pop bottlers was Palatines .

Comment by: Peter Schofield on 13th June 2014 at 11:28

I am sure that it was Palatine Pop Works on the left owned by a gentleman called Bob Warburton who was a magistrate and I took the Police Oath of office in front of him in his office on the 1st July 1968. How times have changed.

Comment by: tony k on 13th June 2014 at 11:44

the first shop was bradshaws papershop

Comment by: Albert. on 13th June 2014 at 19:45

From the scene under the bridge, I see, by the time this photograph was taken, the pub, The Shovel,and Broom, had already been demolished.

Comment by: Maureen on 14th June 2014 at 23:11

Didn't there used to be well somewhere just under that bridge,
Boyswell House got it's name from there.

Comment by: tony k on 15th June 2014 at 11:04

the boyswell was near the top of lime st near the workingmans club

Comment by: tony k on 15th June 2014 at 11:48

maureen the well you mean will be the harrogate well at the side of the pepper mill

Comment by: Betty on 16th June 2014 at 12:44

Boyswell house is at the Junction of scholes and Greenough Street.It got it's name from Boyswell lane near there.

Comment by: Maureen on 20th June 2014 at 17:31

Tony K..are you Tony Keeley by any chance.

Comment by: tony y on 21st June 2014 at 10:35

maureen you almost right

Comment by: Maureen on 21st June 2014 at 16:08

If you are,I lived next door but one to you.

Comment by: Pauline on 25th October 2014 at 14:08

Can anyone else remember that Millgate went up as far as the crossroads and at the other side it was Scholes. On Friday's I used to wait on the curved step of the Blue Bell and wait for dad coming up the hill home from work. He always called in Bradshaw's for our Friday comics. I'm sure the Millgate street sign was on the wall of Calland's shop.

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