Irish familes Scholes

Hi have been doing family research my great grandparents were Patrick Brett and Elizabeth Mckeown they both lived in Cambridge St and died there. I remember some of the great Aunts Maggie Mckeown died in the 1960s,big Lizzie I saw a photo of her on Lanky11 blog.Uncle Pat Brett had a pub in Scholes I know nothing new there this was in the early 1960s.
Does anyone recall the area? What it was like to live there? What kind of life did they have? I know their names but want to put some meat on the bones.
My sister and I were brought up in Wigan, I still live here any photos insights stories would be so welcome.
Thanks

Hi, thomas11 I lived just a few streets away in Lime St.from birth until I was 15 all the steets where pretty much the same terraced houses usually two up two down we lived just outside the irish community although we were raised as catholics and a lot of my friends went to stpats.I think if you try the HISTORY SHOP they will give all the info you require. as for pubs there was a great many just on Scholes itself good luck with your search.j

I am pretty sure that he pub was the Prince of Wales I remember going there as a child to watch Whit Walks

i used to love the Whit walks. it was a day out!

Hi thomas11 it was the Princess of Wales and it was on Greeough St just around the corner from where I lived it was situated on the main Whit walks route not very far from the starting point for my old school St Marys on Standishgate sadly all the people that I knew that could help your search are no longer with us so I say again try the history shop regards.

I knew Lizzy very well and Maureen her daughter was my daughters God mother Maureen was going out with a lad named Fred. they moved to the new flat's I saw them a little more after that they came to my wedding. I left Wigan and moved to Scotland and never saw them again.
Maggie lived on one side of me Lizzie on the other In Cambridge St it was fun living there. Lizzie and Maggie would Wrap my baby up in a shawl and walk her up and down the st.
One day on of the kids in the st set my house on fire so I had to move away.I liked living there and missed the people when I left. good luck with finding what your looking for.

hi thomas 11 i lived in swan terrace just off scholes it was rough but full of good poeple they should never have moved us all out and sent us to places like marsh green they broke up good communitis were people cared about one another kids played out safely and everybody knew one another

my family the morans came from scholes mick moran was irish my mum was moved to scot lane in marsh green with her parents tommy and annie unsworth

Hi My grandma and grandad lived in Higham St Christopher and Isabella Tucker nee Snalam. I went to St Pats school and really liked the whit walks. My grandad came from Dublin they had two sons Richard and Thomas three daughters Maggie,Jane and Annie, Jane was my mother married name Prior my grandma and grandad Prior lived in Harper St there was 11 of them in a two up two down those were the days

nice people bloody awful living conditions.no central heating no bath or shower ,no fridge no telly cobbled streets.probably most of the houses had gas lighting.also the houses where freezing in winter.get up in the freezing cold take the ashes out then light the fire which took forever.good old days