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Cunliffe's from Ashton

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Photo: allan wood
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Item #: 23661
Eric in the shop.

Comment by: irene roberts on 2nd July 2013 at 12:23

Fascinating! I love the decorative shelf-paper.....shopkeepers took such pride then, and I loved it when shops had strings of paper bags and wrapping-paper hung up instead of plastic. Thanks for posting.

Comment by: allan wood on 2nd July 2013 at 12:23

We do not have shops with character like this today, and we do not get the service we used to have.

Comment by: A.W. on 3rd July 2013 at 09:52

Fantastic photo, I like the giant display can of Batchelor's peas on the shelf at the back, supermarkets could learn something about display and merchandising from this photo,

Comment by: Horace on 3rd July 2013 at 10:54

The only thing that's missing from the photo is the obligatory lazy "moggie" asleep on a sack of dried peas. Does anyone recall the name of the similar type of establishment in the Commercil Yard in Wigan town centre. It was on the right as you went into the yard ,opposite the Crofters ( not to be confused with Latimers, which was on the left hand corner)

Comment by: Helen B on 3rd July 2013 at 16:06

Horace, that would be Shannons. It was run by 2 brothers (Bill & Joe I think?). When I was a child, my Mum used to buy flour and yeast from them to make her own bread.

Comment by: irene roberts on 4th July 2013 at 08:50

I remember Shannon's in Wigan but in later years when it was in another location, (bottom end of Market Street). My husband worked in Commercial Yard when he left school, at Sawbridge's Butchers. I can remember going to Latimer's to buy fresh yeast, (which my Mam always called "barm"), for my cookery lessons at school. What a lot of memories this lovely photo has evoked; exactly what Wigan World is all about.

Comment by: A.W. on 4th July 2013 at 09:35

It was Shannon's, everybody went there for yeast, bran and dried goods. When the Commercial Yard was demolished the shop moved to the Market Street Arcade that was attached to the old Market Hall, that too has now been demolished.

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