Wigan Album

Hi Marlene
That's a lovely photo. I recognised you straight away. Hope all is well with you x

What a lovely Photo Marlene,just grand.

Hi ,is it Tricia from Sunday school? I am well ,where has the years gone ?

I remember the local men playing pitch & toss on what they called "T'garden"(wasteland) in the 40's. My stepfathers family came from there, the Parkinsons & Shaws

Lovely photograph. Notice the motor car in the background. Not many folk had one in those days. A car like that in your street in those days could indicate bad news: the doctor, or, God forbid, the undertaker.

Yes it is me ,Marlene. Are you still in Orrell? We were there in Nov/Dec.Seems a world away now from sitting listening to Mrs Eden every Sunday.Lovely to hear from you again.

Art
My 2 Gt Maternal Grandmother lived there in 1881. She was widowed by then, Taberner nee Hooton. Her son lived round the corner in Billinge Road

what a lovely photo.That's my uncle Ike, I've put a photo of him on Places-Pemberton, it was taken on the day of his son jimmy and Eunice's wedding. brings back memories of Qween st.

I used to walk down there on my way to school.

Yes Tricia I still live in Orrell.As you say the years have flown by ,wouldn`t change a thing though .

I grew up in that street.... and the car in the background was just like the first car we ever had a 1954 Ford Anglia... I can still remember the reg FCK541 ... happy days and lovely photo

Hi, You don't know me but that man is my grandad! Thanks for the joy you have given me to see his face again, a lovely gentle man. He died just ten years after this photo was taken.

Geoffrey it may surprise you to know that I do remember you as a child .Was your mother May? We as children loved your grandad and Iremember him making us walking day posies with Sweet William flowers from his garden .

Hi, My father was Ikes' youngest son Thomas, a musician and artist, my mother is May Hilton. An old friend asked grandad what he was doing when he was tarring the shed, he told her he was whitewashing!

as a child in the 50's family friends The Simms lived at the bottom of Queen Street. i remember going out from the back kitchen and their toilet was across the backs like this photo

Kath ,I remember Mr and Mrs Simm and their daughter Kathleen very well .My grandma was Mrs Aspey who lived next door to you on Billinge Road .