Wigan Album
5th Wigan St Catharine's Boys Brigade
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Photo: John A Hankin
Item #: 18099
Brilliant picture for those looking slightly beyond the main subject. The photo is taken looking up Millgate towards the town centre. The hoardings on the right are there again at the present time, advertising the somewhat doomed "tower" that will probably never get built now. Beyond the hoardings is the Baths Hotel, now long since demolished.On the left is the old Wigan Baths, where my Grandfather Jack Cockrell (Snr) was Manager for about 30 years until his retirement in 1966, just before the Wigan "Olympic" pool was opened. That too has now been confined to the history books.The new building there appears to have attracted much critisism recently in the local press
Update on names: Left to right:
?, Eric Winstanley, Jimmy Carter (in naval uniform), Jack Illsley, Arthur Benfold, Richard Causey (ex Wigan Police force), ?, Alan Hankin, ?,?,?,?,?.
Superb photograph, My Grandad is Richard Causey who is nearly 92 now he is in the picture (it was his brother John who was in Wigan borough Police) . He remembers most of the people on this photograph along with the other one of St Catherine's BB.
Sadly Richard Causey my Grandfather passed away last week. Probably the last person on this photograph to pass, he was 96 and will be greatly missed