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To me, that car is in Market Place, Rev.David.

You're right, of course, Ernest... but it is at the Wallgate end....;-)

I'll support that statement, Ernest! And the Royals during any visit to the North-West is punctuated by a stop over at Knowsley Hall, Lord Derby's pile!!
I bet the monkeys in the Safari Park have a field day with the Royal Standard on the car!!

I don't think there was a safari park there in 1938

When they visited Walker Bros.on 7th March 1945, they stayed overnight in the Royal Train which was in the sidings nearby. Photo`s of visit are in Old Gallery, Royal Visits.
Extract from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowsley_Safari_Park
"The park was opened in July 1971 by Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby."
Yesterday I watched on TV `The Two Fat Ladies` who cooked a meal for the keepers at Knowsley Safari Park.

Very interesting to read your comments.I was there waving the flag on Market Street in Miss Shacklady's class at St Catharine's School

Thanks Ernest for your enlightenment!
Footnote: I have visited the safari park and those monkeys can be vicious and destructive...car aerials and wing mirrors are fair game!!

I believe Alexandre's was still trading there into the early fifties, it may have been longer. I bought clothes from their store.

I'm sure Albert, Alexandres was trading in the 60's. I can recall about 4 tailors on Market Place. And I've bought bespoke suits from each. On the never-never, of course!

Johnny. Wasn't another one, "Jackson's the Tailor"?. I'm sure I bought clothes from this store, on the Market Place, many years ago.

You're right Albert!
Jacksons was there. Now lets re-cap...Alexandres, Jacksons, Burton, John Collier (the window to watch).
No excuse for us men about Wigan to look scruffy, eh Albert!
And C&A (Coats &'Ats) at bottom of Standishgate for us overcoats.

Johnny. I remember one time, when on leave in the mid fifties, I bought a large woolly from Jackson's. I later, in February, spent a leave in Austria, and coming down in the cable car from the mountain, I was leaning with my back to the cable car window. When I came to move, I had frozen to the window. My mates eventually pulled me free, leaving half the woolly on the window.

Albert: That's what you call being a genuine woolly back.

You certainly got around Albert on National Service! Did you see Berchtesgaden as well? That's wearing the same wooly from Burtons!!!!!

Albert, Johnny; Greenwoods, see:-
http://www.greenwoodsonline.com/about

Seen the web site Ernest. I won't be going up any more mountains, so no need for any more very thick woollies.
Vb. Although National service was in force all through the fifties, I enlisted, and did five years with the colours, then four years in the reserve. As an enlisted serviceman the pay was better, although not by much.

Jonny, you overlooked Weaver to Wearer, Peter Pell and the Fifty Shilling Tailors, the last one still sporting that title in the late fifties, when even then you wouldn't get much for £2/10/0d

I was at Woodfield School in 1945 I remember standing in Mesnes Road waving a flag as they went past..