Wigan Album

Hi Dave,Presume you come from Digmoor ,re all the photos.Do you know anyone on this photo.Left message on other photos that i used to live in area ,and went Digmoor school,still interested in the local history etc,photos bring back good memories,show them to my dad who is 89 now.

I lived at Digmoor until I was 12 Joan, in Daniels Lane, straight across from the church. I went to Digmoor School between 1964 and 1967 when it closed.
The only one I know on the photo is my Dad, who is the big ugly one, second from the right on the back row. He would have been a similar age (a few years younger) to your Dad if he was still with us.
Ask your Dad if he remembers Brian or Dick Roughley who had the shop/bakery at the bottom of Daniels Lane.
I've left an email if you want further information

The 'Queen' is my aunt Gladys Myers (Johnson) My family lived in Tawd Bridge and my Grandmother Alice Myers ran the shop there

I remember Auntie Alice very well from when I was younger. She always had a hearing aid that whistled

My Mum & I were talking about Digmoor the other day. I lived in Digmoor from 3 to 6 and attended the village school. My earliest memories are from there. i remember the names David & Brian Roughley and the shop that was more or less around the corner from our bungalow. Across the road was a footpath and I remember my friend falling into the nettles while trying to cross the stile, perhaps that was a seed that led me to my job as a Rights of way officer for Derbyshire Countryside Service. I was always exploring and once walked all the way to the road sign of the next village and felt a great sense of achievement. There was a tradition of the children pulling as many peas off the pea wagon as it passed by along the road. We moved when we discovered the village would be subsumed by the new town.

Mark, are you Bill and Margaret's son and did you have a brother John? You moved to Orrell mid to late 60's