Wigan Album

Music lessons . Eat Good Bread Dear Father . 1 and 2 and 3 and
' Kumbaya My Lord Kumbaya . O Lord Kumbaya . '
F A C E . 1 , 2 , 3, 4 , All together children . ' Old Zip Coon he played all day ......yip , we sung it so innocently back then .
The Recorders . The Marraccas . The blocks you knocked together . All beyond the pain threshold now , but back then a wonderful introduction into the most life affirming thing that humanity has ever invented .

Good memories, Poet! EGBDF was "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" at Ince Central, and ACEG was "All Cows Eat Grass". I still remember things in that way. We used to sing" I'll go no more a-roving", "Bobby Shaftoe" and "Ye Banks and Braes" amongst many others, including "Go and tell Aunt Nancy the old grey goose is dead", which always had me in floods of tears! Unfortunately I had a voice like two cracked plates and still have!

Best of all was ' Johnny Todd ' . I remember singing the words at home when Z cars came on .

What shall we do with a drunken sailor….early in the morning,,,I think we loved that one !
Blow the wind southerly, southerly . Blow the wind south where’s the bonny blue sea.. I hated that song ..miserable as owt! Kathleen Ferrier..

I know some of these children on this photo who went on to Aspull high school who was is my year Lee Whittle Andrew Hankin Ste Mercer and sadly the one at the back on the right poor John Whitehouse who passed away a few years ago