Wigan Album

I should add on a lighter note that my Uncle Charlie Barton did me a great service in teaching me to tell the time & tie my shoe laces properly...he also told me..in case I should mess with them..that his geraniums were deadly poisonous...his wife Elizabeth, Auntie Lizzie, was my Dad's eldest sister & a great needlewoman, I have some of her work to prove it.

Helen, what lovely memories of special people. It is wonderful to see our architectural heritage, eg: the recent pics of Wigan Town Centre, Ince Hall etc, but these personal human stories are just as important. Thankyou for sharing that with us all.

Thank you for your comment Irene...it is the small things in memory that add to history, I remember Uncle Joe Bradshaw who told me jokes that I can tell to this day, corny they may have been. Uncle Fred Foster who kept the chickens in the yard behind the shop, Auntie Lizzie who gave me the Staffordshire china dog to take home in my bike basket...saying I could have the other one when I was grown up. I did get it & was devasted when they were stolen from our home not many years ago...all memories, all history.