Wigan Album

I remember pat Turner very well having worked along side of her at Carrington & Dewhust factory in 1962,
Dorothy Ollerton was one of my late wife's friends
Hilda Lowe they all worked together in the Weaving shed.Pat married the works manager John Pendlebury.

Top bay window Surveyors office, to the right Public Health Inspectors office and right again Clerks office. Nice place to work.

Nice photo Barrie, typical style of the 60s, with the backcomed bouffant hair.

Edna when you talk about the bouffant hair, I used to take my spray bottle to Boots and they would fill it with lacquer.

Around this time Ashfield was the Standish clinic . I went there for a polio sugar cube .

60 years and where has the time gone. I'm glad to see the ladies did well for themselves just as other teenagers like me also did well. It was by chance that the photograph was taken as it was a bright evening and I'd been cooped up during the day in the site office then later sitting one of my exams in the afternoon at the Tech. So took my camera out with me into Ashfield. After the shot had been taken, Pat took the camera and took one of me on the same bench. From memory the gardens were always kept tidy and fresh. Standish Council in those days. During the War, there used to be allotments near to building and Father acquired 2 where he grew veg and kept hens there providing the family in top up food. My sisters often talk about the time on the allotment and the pony " Lady Bett" being used with a small plough and the cart to bring the produce back to the home. Before my day I'm afraid.

Linma I don't remember Boots filling spray bottles up!! But I know the 60s was a about the best time to be a teenager.The music fashion, and everything that went with it.

I worked at Boots but only in 1992 so hairspray was then in areosols, but I remember when I was a young girl at school. the older girls used to buy Bel-Air hair lacquer, which came in a liquid form, and they used to transfer it to a plastic "puffer" bottle to spray their hair, and the smell was enough to strip paint!

Pat lost her husband John at an early age I never knew what happened to Pat after that.spa

I remember ‘Bel- Air ‘ Irene it used to leave blobs in your hair after spraying. It ruined hair after prolonged use. I was so glad when bouffant hair went out of. Fashion. Awful stuff….

Dorothy Ollerton married my cousin Trevor Syner.Spent loads of time around here when we were kids with Percy Hill,David Tinsdale Len Marsden,John Marsden and others.

Standish holds many good memories for me,
Even though I am a wigan lad I made some really
Good friends there,Alf Freeman,Tommy Tomlinson
Jackie Hill,Jimmy Hart,Eddie Fowler.and many more

Eddie Rowland....Eddie Fowler was Uncle to my schoolfriend June. I remember going with her to the old bungalow up Moore's Lane. This was in the mid-1960s.

The name Dorothy Ollerton sounds familiar.!!
My twin and I trained in nursing at RAEInfirmary Wigan. from 1960 to 1966. Before that we went to St Marie’s school Standish!!
Was Pat Turner a nurse too? Hoping for a response!

I am pleased to see so many comments on the 2 ladies and the links. They were basically mates that I met in the village. Pat lived just off Preston Road so I assumed Dorethy did as well. I lost touch with them when I moved up to Glasgow area in 1965. Another good friend of mine was Geoff Fairhurst who lived on Chorley Road (there is a photograph on Album-Standish #32575) and I lost touch with him early 70's.

I have still got the photo ????still live in Standish .Pat lives in Croston

Joyce &Shirley remember you both from St Marie’s (old school) I still live in Standish , Pat was never a nurse , she lives in Croston

Irene Roberts,I remember the Fowlers bungalow very
well,me and the Fowler brothers used to meet there
For our fishing trips to Scotland every September.5y

Met Dorothy at school when I was 5 and you Joyce and Shirley, Dorothy and I are still good friends, only see Pat once in a while, it’s lovely seeing all these names from long ago it brings back great memories

Met Dorothy at school when I was 5 and you Joyce and Shirley, Dorothy and I are still good friends, only see Pat once in a while, it’s lovely seeing all these names from long ago it brings back great memories

Barrie ,older people remember you from Moss grove ,and your father building a Car,
behind what used to be the Horseshoe.

Dorothy, what a pleasant surprise on seeing your comments, Glad to hear from you. Yes, that car! my fathers' dream to build one and we did. I remember the various village folk stopping at the smithy doors to chat and watch the progress being made. Outside of that I still had a life hence the photographs taken. Moss Grove, the bungalow was sold last year and 10 years ago I & my wife had the pleasure to visit it when it was up for renting and the owner contacted me. I was born in that bungalow as it was and was also the last person of our family to close the front door finally in 1984 after Father had died in the RTA and we had cleared the property. I now live on the Wirral (44 years this year) but Standish is my spiritual home.