Wigan Album

This is Evan House Farm bus terminus at Standish Lower Ground. Probably taken around 1968.

Remember there was a milk machine at that bus stop, you put your money in and a carton of ice cold milk would be dispensed, don't know why here, unless a lot of teetotallers lived in SLG at the time.

I seem to recall getting a bus back to Wigan here after the sadist sports mastsers at WGS had forced us to run round Christopher Park in the pouring rain and driving wind yet again !! There certainly was a milk machine at the Christopher Park stop and it was very popular to have a strawberry milk option before getting the bus. I Don't know if they did other flavours than plain milk and strawberry perhaps others can remember. Ther was also a milk machine at the bus station at the Market Square, but I don't remember any others in Wigan. Talking about the Bus station does anyone else remember the Map of Wigan they had on the Wal where you could press buttons and local landmarks and facilities would light up. When I was at primary school and living in Scholes I was so besotted with this map that my parents would take me for a walk "into Wigan" just to visit the bus station and this Map. WE were easily pleased !!

The milk machine also had ice cold orange juice for sixpence.

wow that takes me back, I well remember the map but haven't thought of it in years ,and if you hadn't mentioned it probably never again till I pegged out!

Remember the map on the bus station well, and the milk machine - "The electric cow" used to come in handy on night shift, when we ran out of milk for a brew.

I am sure there was one of those milk vending machines on Wallgate Railway Station.

Does anyone else remember the illuminated advertising screens that used to be on the lower deck of some Corporation buses, fixed to the bulkhead behind the drivers cab?

Mick

Yes from memory they were on a roll that moved the adverts horizontally across the screen.

Reminds me of the old nursery rhyme, Mary had a tin can cow, she milked it with a spanner. Milk came out in shilling cans, and little ones for a tanner.

Mick/Carolean - remember well the rolling adverts on the lower deck of Wigan Corporation buses. Around the same time they started slotted card type adverts in the bulkheads above the side windows. To their credit Wigan Corporation always resisted raising revenue by having advertising on the outer bodywork.

nearly right photo took Sun morn 1973

The milk machine at Evan House Farm and Wigan bus station were run by Archie Rushton who owned the farm. He provided the milk from his cattle. Spent many happy hours there before the Rushtons moved to the Isle of Man.