REMEMBER
BURTONS MENSWEAR
PENDLEBURYS
MALTBY WINE SHOP
B H STORES
TIMPSONS
NIMANS JEWELLRY SHOP
OLIVER SUMMERS
THE PRAM SHOP PN THE COTNER OF MESNES ST
VOSES TRIPE
MARK WILLIAMS
KENDALLS DECORATING SHOP
MITCHINSONS FLORIST
OH I COULD GO ON
BUT DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER ANY OF THOSE ALL IN STANDISHGATE APART FROM OLIVER SOMERS
Started: 3rd Sep 2018 at 11:54
It's long ago that BHS was on Standishgate and Burton was there in the 80s where specsavers is now
Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 13:47
Alexandra the tailor,was better than Burtons.
Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 18:42
Does anyone remeber Coleclough & Massey's?
My wedding veil and headress came from there.
I also remember buying a "muff" from there when Dr Zhivago
coats were all the rage.
Replied: 4th Sep 2018 at 09:02
I remember some of them .
Replied: 4th Sep 2018 at 15:46
I well remember Coleclough and Massey's. I also bought my Veil and Headress, from there, well My Parents did! I also got the headdresses and muffs for my bridesmaids. (December Wedding) The old Lady (Mrs Coleclough??) Sat near my Mother, making suggestions, and the other saleswomen ran around following her orders. My Bridesmaids were to wear Red Velvet, and she suggested that the remnants of the dresses could be brought in and used as the centers of the daisies making up the muffs. We did, and the results looked fabulous. That's what you call service.
Replied: 4th Sep 2018 at 22:40
has burtons shut down ? .
Replied: 5th Sep 2018 at 16:55
Do you remember dewhurst butchers. Peggy paiges. Bradmores ladies clothes.stylo shoe shop. Freeman hardy and Willis. Cavendish furniture shop.rumbelows
Replied: 5th Sep 2018 at 22:09
Gone for a Burton, you might say.
..........I'l get mih coat!
Replied: 6th Sep 2018 at 15:34
WAS IT FIFTY SHILLINGD MENS SUITS OPPOSITE WHERE THE GENERAL O O WAS WALLGATE ,MIND YOU I AM GOING BACK, SHOWS MY AGE
FANCY GETTUNG A SUIT FIR 50 SHILLINGS
Replied: 16th Sep 2018 at 10:54
ELIZABETH
50/- IN 1950, IS THE EQUIVALENT OF AROUND £60 TODAY. SO YES, A CHEAP SUIT, BUT NOT AS CHEAP AS THE FIGURES MIGHT SUGGEST.
WOULD BE A WEEK'S WAGE FOR MANY, AND MANY WILL GET A BETTER BARGAIN SPENDING A WEEK'S WAGE ON A SUIT IN 2018.
Replied: 16th Sep 2018 at 12:18
John Collier In market place, cheap suits. Martins Bank.
Replied: 17th Sep 2018 at 00:02
The window to watch
Replied: 17th Sep 2018 at 21:15
Wasn't the John Collier window the one popular for performing the Harry Worth trick?
Replied: 18th Sep 2018 at 16:49
No that was Civic Stores, look on Youtube.
Replied: 18th Sep 2018 at 17:28
Found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbUrVzdT8Q&feature=related
0.57 sec.
Replied: 18th Sep 2018 at 17:35
It may well have been Civic Stores in the Harry Worth footage. I am asking about the popular location on Market Place, Wigan, where kids chose to perform the same display. I believe they did so, long before Mr Worth brought it to mass attention via the TV.
Replied: 18th Sep 2018 at 17:51
ADO YOU REMEMBER CONROYS MARKET ST , KINGS THE BUTCHERS WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN ALL DRESSES UP AND USED TO SHAKE GER FIST CLUTCHING A UMBRELLA AT THE BUS DRIVERS ,HOW SHE NEVER GOT KNOCKED DOWN I WILL NEVER THEY SAID SHE HAD BEEN JILTED BY A BUS DRIVER
Replied: 23rd Sep 2018 at 09:51
I do remember that Oxley's in Station Road had one of those pneumatic tube systems, whereby the sales assistant bundled your money into a canister that was propelled to the cashier, and you waited about ten minutes for your change and receipt to come back in the same manner. It used to make me jump, as it landed with such a loud thump!
Oddly enough, my local Tesco Superstore has the same system for dispatching the takings from the checkouts (emptying the tills!) But it is very discreet. You would never know it was there unless you saw it being used.
Replied: 23rd Sep 2018 at 14:42
So did Pendlebury's priscus.
Replied: 24th Sep 2018 at 06:23
Pendleburys was bought by Debenhams in 1948.
Replied: 24th Sep 2018 at 09:17
alexandra. had a suit from them fitted like a glove,lovely.
Replied: 2nd Oct 2018 at 20:01
Rumbelows with the record store downstairs...Subway now
Replied: 3rd Oct 2018 at 07:50
rememer WAS IT POOLES RNNING DOWN FROM STANDISGATE TO OPPOSITE TE RIC==3 PIECE SUITES BEDS KITCHEN UNITS OH ALL SORTS AND YPU CPULD CROSS THE ROAD AND GO IN A
ALL SO REMEMBER SAXONE SHOE SHOP NEXT TO THE BUS AND TRAM OFFICE
Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 16:43
POOLES WAS STATION ROAD. (OXLEYS, BEFORE IT BECAME OXLEYS)
Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 17:19
OH THANKS FOR THE LOVELY BUSSES
Replied: 10th Oct 2018 at 16:08
oh where to go now for a bespoke suit ? .
Replied: 11th Oct 2018 at 15:32
Had a gorgeous suit made for me by Coops in 1960's.
It was a 'House Job', ie near cost price. I think it was an offer they made to employees and their friends to keep production running when orders were slack.
Replied: 11th Oct 2018 at 16:09
any one reme,ner VERONJCA ALMOND HAD A SHO IN SCHOLES TOP OF GREENOUGH ST SHE USED TO HAVE SOME LOVELY THINGS
Replied: 3rd Nov 2018 at 15:18
Last edited by elizabeth: 3rd Nov 2018 at 16:24:03
Me and my brother had made to measure three piece suits from Burton's in Wigan that was in 1976 though. I find Wigan isn't the same anymore for shopping.
Replied: 20th Apr 2019 at 08:56
Also Woodhouses Furniture was in Standishgate.
Replied: 20th Apr 2019 at 22:40
Remember all of them.
This is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy 😊 highways where I went and cannot come again.
Replied: 21st Apr 2019 at 06:43
Jackson.s the Tailors is where i used to go, They would ask witch do you dress when mesuring your inside leg.
Replied: 21st Apr 2019 at 14:35
I recall what I believe to be the last traditional tailors working in the area. (I believe that practice continued a bit longer in Leeds, and in Savile Row)
It was in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, where at least into the early 1980's traditional Jewish tailors worked sitting cross-legged upon their work benches, and shaped the garments over their knee. Using the contour of the knee as a very effective tailors' ham, and repeatedly stretching, pressing stitching.... to force the cloth into curves in three dimensions which did not have 'darts' to take up excessive fullness! Magic!
Replied: 22nd Apr 2019 at 15:31
Weaver to Wearer.
Replied: 2nd May 2019 at 15:50
Just been reading elsewhere that the company 'Fifty Shillings Tailor' became 'John Collier'. Was there a 'Hepworth' in Wigan? (They became 'Next'!)
Replied: 6th May 2019 at 16:45