Wigan Album

The street on the right was Spring Street I was born at number 82. The street higher up is Silver street. Directly opposite Spring St. there was a sweet shop, and next to that, the ROYAL GEORGE Which was on the corner of Hardybutts and Warrington Lane. Where the curve of the road is on the photograph

Ron, I'm guessing that the photo was take from an upper floor of Woodcock House, I think the building in the foreground is the Stanley Arms, I am not sure if the alleyway next to it is Amy Lane leading down to the bottom of Scholes or more likely it's the one one the left next to the hoardings.
St Catherine's and St Patrick's Churches in the background, at least these two still remain.
I came across a photo taken by Kevin Higgins about fifteen years ago taken from the opposite side of the road, I've posted a comment so photo this might pop up again.

Many’s the time I ran up there to get home for the deadline 11 00. It’s nice to to see the
‘ breid’ at the side of the Stocking factory we played many an hour on there. I can see Ginny Dyke’s shop where me and my pal used to help her aunty ‘to save her legs!’…thanks to Cyril for finding this photo.

Cyril, Yes, it is the Stanley in the foreground, and Amy Lane is to the left of the hoardings. I think the shop with the white front on Harybutts was Ponfrit's. Acton House pensioner's flats are being built, top left of Hardybutts.

Vauxhall Rd houses still there to this day. You can see the entrance to the slaughter house as well.

If that is the The Stanley it was the the first pub I ever drank in and got drunk and I was still at school.

There was once a lot of problems at Acton Houe Tuddy with rats getting in from the old drainage still underneath the concrete floor of the building, inspections of all kinds from smoke tests to probing had been carried out and every conceivable hole blocked off, but they still got in. The old drainage systems should really have been sealed or removed during demolition but of course this never got done, as other buildings around had similar problems.
Before going over to environmental health I did a stint in the 1970s caretaking at St Catharine's and one afternoon there was a lot of excitement by children with them seeing a lot of baby rats seen coming out of a hole in the ground, some children were picking them up thinking they were baby Gerbils, thankfully they'd thrown them down after being bitten. The hole was said to be around where the Spotted Cow had been with the demolishers filling in the cellars of pub and houses with bricks and rubble, though around the corner in Catherine Street they hadn't even done that, as a large hole later appeared there and when peering down with a torch you could see into the cellar and bizarrely a table with chairs was still down there as though set for tea, this cellar got to be filled with gravel with the other hole having cement mortar poured in.

In the centre of the photo, you can see the Post Office Telephones' Pole Erection Unit, which Wigan acquired in 1966. Prior to this, the task was performed manually. You can also see one they have just done: a newly erected pole at centre bottom of the picture. The pole has not yet anything connected to it. These poles will have a distribution point (Box) attached to them, at which an underground cable terminates, and from there, a (usually single span) drop-off wire links to the customer's premises. At this time, these were replacing the poles with arms, which had originally been designed for carrying open copper wires. The latter had been phased out of these local distribution schemes, though the poles for some time remained, having PVC covered aerial cables slung from them instead.