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

I did.

It was more than a telephone exchange.

It was Wigan Group Switching Centre:
Automatic (Strowger) Tel Exchange
Manual Switchboards
Test Desk
Repeater Station
etc etc

The Ass Executive Engineer in charge was Harry Ridgeway, from Violet ST. A-in-M.

Higher Technical Officer in charge of the Test Desk was Joe Unsworth.

Names of the T.O.s who worked the test Desk are on the tip of my tounge, I'll add them if they come to me. (Arthur Ashhurst ?) (Rowland ...??)

I only worked there very briefly in 1965, to do my Test Desk Training. It was a pleasant, if too hot, place to work: I remember being taken out for lunch at the Grand on my first day. Very nice!

One peculiarity, which always stuck in my mind, was the canteen, upstairs, where the men all clung to one side, and the women to the other. Never saw that anywhere else.