Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

I can't bring to mind the lady on Carmen Rollers but would probably know her if I saw a pic of her. The man on records was called Keith, and he actually still worked in Smiths when my daughter worked there in around 2001-ish, and he remembered me! No, the capsule paying system had stopped and we had tills. Credit cards had just come in and we had to put them through a duplicating machine and people had to sign, so I imagine the capsule system would have been difficult for those payments. I remember the capsule system when I was a little girl when it was Pendlebury's......I had no idea it would still have been used as late as the 1970s! I have a feeling that I could have rattled off so many names only a few years ago that now escape me.....old age!......but I do remember a lot. My grand-daughter Edie goes to St. Andrew's School in Springfield and one of her teachers, Mrs. Holmes, recognised me from Debenhams and told Edie she used to work with me. I went to have a word with her, and I knew her face but couldn't have said where from. Miss Evans came to live near me many years ago but sadly died from breast cancer. According to a friend of hers, she knew she had it and wouldn't go to the doctor.....who knows, maybe she could have been saved? I was so sad, as I felt I was getting to know her as a person instead of a former boss. Barbara Wilcox died a few years ago. The day I started at Debs, a young girl four years my junior started there too, and we became great friends, and stayed so for many years. Her name was Carmel and she sadly developed cancer in, I would say, her late thirties. She fought it valiantly but it re-occurred in different parts of her body and she sadly died aged 53. She had a little grand-daughter, Mia, the same age as our Edie, but only knew her until she was two. She now has a grandson that she never knew about. Sometimes when I have a moan about having to pick up Edie,(8), and Oliver(6), from school, and look after them in the holidays, I give myself a talking-to when I realise how lucky I am.