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Station Road, Wigan

19 Comments

Bus at Bus Stop 1950's
Bus at Bus Stop 1950's
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 26708
JP 6109 ready for the OFF to the Worsley Hall Estate in the 1950's

Comment by: Jimmy on 27th July 2015 at 14:57

Ready for the off Ron?
It looks to me like it has already set off from Station road, and is at bus stop facing Wallgate station.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 27th July 2015 at 15:29

Jimmy how old are you? that is DEFINITELY Station Road with POOLES Department store, been in there many times as a young lad with my mother.

Comment by: Jimmy on 27th July 2015 at 15:46

Sorry Ron, I thought it was the Pooles cafe facing the station.
I can see it's Station road now.

Comment by: irene roberts on 27th July 2015 at 15:49

Yes, definitely Station Road. Poole's was taken over by Oxley's. I remember the store as Oxley's and there are photos of it on the Album, but my Mam always called it Poole's, even when it had changed hands.

Comment by: Jimmy on 27th July 2015 at 16:05

AH, I remember that shop as Oxleys, but not Pooles

Comment by: Albert on 27th July 2015 at 17:23

Where did the No 23 go to? Didn't the No 12, go to Abram?

Comment by: Alan H on 27th July 2015 at 18:45

It was also Waring and Gillow after Pooles.

Comment by: ttd on 27th July 2015 at 19:15

i think its Worsley hall estate

Comment by: Albert. on 27th July 2015 at 19:24

Apologies. I hadn't noticed " Worsley Hall Estate"

Comment by: irene roberts on 27th July 2015 at 19:53

The No 12 went to Abram in the 1970s, but not sure before that.

Comment by: Carl on 27th July 2015 at 20:17

I'm just noting that the bus only has one green light by th side of the destination board instead of the regular 2 which the later buses carried. I was told that it dates back to the times when people could easily identify a Wigan Corpy bus at night by these lights and so didn't use the other more expensive bus companies around at the time

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 27th July 2015 at 20:51

Leyland PD1 built around 1947.
Good photo of the bus and Station Road, Ron.

Comment by: allan wood on 27th July 2015 at 21:33

Definitely Worsley Hall that's where I was brought up.

Comment by: old bob on 28th July 2015 at 07:08

How many remember the mad rush to get on the last bus home, when the whistle was blown at 11pm.

Comment by: maggie on 28th July 2015 at 08:47

it was along here that I used to catch the bus home to Platt Bridge when I went to the High School.

Comment by: Garry on 28th July 2015 at 09:01

Good point old bob. what time is the last bus these days?

Comment by: Albert. on 28th July 2015 at 09:33

Irene. I recollect now, you've jogged my memory. I caught the No12, to the Maypole, Abram, in the very early 1950s. I caught it at Manley Street, Lower Ince.

Comment by: Cyril on 31st July 2015 at 14:01

The number 12 bus went to Abram in the early 1960s too Irene as we would catch that bus when visiting the cemetery at Lower Ince.

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