Wigan Album

I've just been looking through a very very old family album that belonged to my mum who died a few weeks ago. I have come across some nvery old pictures and post cards from before the 1st world war that was sent to my family from a William Laycock who was at the time the landlord of the Harrogate Inn Wigan. Would be intersted to hear from anyone having connections with the same.

I remember going in the Harrogate in the mid 50s when i shouldn,t have been in there, i can see the spitoons and sawdust on the floor even now, there was a very small curtained area at the side of the bar with maybe a couple of tables and a few chairs where the landlord put the under age drinkers.

Just wondering if anyone know who the landlord/landlady was back in early 1960's - I think it was possibly my father's sister and her husband. Trying to investigate my family tree

I found an old token coin made by T.Pipe of the Harrowgate Inn Wigan. Very strange coin or token.

Will. can you scan it and put it on the site? Amongst other projects.. I am trying to compile a photographic record of all the old pubs in the town which are now long gone, and anything associated with them and the brewing industry in Wigan.

In 1921 the publican at 15, Harrogate St. (which I am assuming was the Harrogate Inn) was one James Forrest and his wife Margaret (nee Hagan) who in February1936 was the (by then retired) householder at 22, Darlington St. (the infamous "tripe shop"of The Road to Wigan Pier fame) with whom Eric Blair alias George Orwell lodged when he was in Wigan.

Stan, we lived at 39 Harrogate Street which was at the top end on the corner of Douglas Street.
I have just back tracked down Harrogate Street and number 15 would have been the Adelphi Pub on the corner of Foy Street. Miss Lamb had a shop on the opposite corner.
Again according to my calculations The Harrogate Inn would have been number 7 on the corner of Shelmerdine Street.
Almost opposite with its main frontage on Darlington Street was The Preston Arms.
Hope that helps?

Colin You have just added two more pubs to the list that I need images of<g>

Ron, I thought that I had seen a photo of the Adelphi on some site at some time but cannot locate it.
I don't recall any of The Preston Arms but remember who ever had it had a son roughly same age as myself in the late fifties and we used to play in their accommodation upstairs.
The pub had wooden benches and chairs in the bar that they used to bring out onto the pavement on Darlington Street for the Whit Monday Walks (as I think did the Harrogate).
Darlington Street was packed for those walks that seemed to go on for hours before they turned left at the Derby Arms onto Chapel Lane as they made there way past the last Catholic Church, St Joseph's before turning right onto Wallgate and then back to the Market Square.