Wigan Album

You wouldn't have had much time in Blackpool if you had to travel there and back in a day on the old A roads..

That would have been like riding on a plank, it's got solid tyres like a forklift.

I sincerely hope it didn't rain, on their return journey.

Websters ran trips to the Black Bull ( Hell Hob) at Mawdesly With such coaches. as this, I beleive they had family connections with the Landlords family, and were very popular trips for Wiganers

Just look at the on-board entertainment, a chap with a small accordion, all together now, "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea", come on then, sing up you lot. At around 20 mph it must have taken hours and hours to get to Blackpool or Southport back in those days'. What a wonderful photograph.

I wonder why they didn't fit a roof. Imagine taking a trip to Blackpool in the rain, or worse still Morecambe.

Don't forget, even as late as the fifties, on a coach trip from Wigan to Blackpool there was a refreshment/comfort break at a pub/tearoom in the Preston area.

DerekB I remember it well , it was in Lostock Hall ,,,,,

It was probably Penwortham Tea Rooms. We used to stop there on the annual choir trip from St Stephens Whelley. There is a picture in the State Stephens section