Wigan Album

These are all brilliant shots Keith,I live on Beech Hill Avenue,and boy how everything has changed..for the better of course...probably in another 50 years someone else will be saying the very same thing..as I say brilliant...is there any more please.

Thank you for your comments Maureen. I lived at the Wellfield Hotel from 1956 to 1967 and so this subject matter appealed to me as well as its social history element. Essentially I've covered the topic but I'll see if there's anything else I can find.

From the mid 1940s I lived in Rose Ave just further up from 'the bullring' and where it met Ashcroft Ave. I remember being sent to these shops by my mother as a kid. Can't remember what the one of the corner with 'Shaftesbury Ave' was but the one next to it was Mr Booth's paper shop and the one with the delivery bike propped up against it was probably Clarrie White's grocers shop. Clarrie was a woman,(perhaps short for Clarissa?) I seem to remember that
out of shot there was a butchers, and the one adjacent to where the old peoples bungalows start was a toffee shop. I've had many a penny ice lolly from there, but can't remember the shopkeepers name.

My Mum Elizabeth Bentham used to work in Riley's shop in that next block down - she says Old man Riley, his daughter Ethel and son Kenneth ran the shop and later his other son Alan and wife Hilda Riley took over.

The shop on the corner was Halliwells grocers the next one Booths newaagents and the shop with the bike at the front was Glovers grocers.
I used to deliver their groceries using the bike.

Great to see the memories and recollections coming in.

hello maureen,go on pathe reel site ,,,,easy to find,,,you can watch it for 5 mins or so,,comes nder mill workers