People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

As I mentioned I am making a list of back street shops during my younger years in Wigan.I will kick off with my own street,York St.Starting at the Miry Lane end there was a grocers making the corner and coming down to The Little Tunnel was a small clothes shop on your right,this was one of the many shops that was just someone converting their front parlour to retailing.Just before the tunnel was Cunningham's grocers shop adjoining Whittles that sold bits for bicyles and other hardware.On the corner with Taylor St.Opposite on the corner with Taylor St was Bet.Wetherall's Grocers shop and opposite this was the Off Licence.Coming around the corner from the Off Licence was Baxendale's Butchers shop run by Molly Baxendale and her husband.They were one of only two people in the street who had a motor car and I remember my first ever ride in a car when Mr.Baxendale took me and mam to see my dad in hospital at Southport.We lived at 32 just across the road from Mrs.Griffiths who sold bottles of pop,firewood and shoe laces.It was one of those front parlour conversions and you went straight down the lobby into Mrs. Griffiths back room to ask if she could serve you in the shop.I will never forget what a lovely room the dear old lady had at the back.Going towards York St. East there was a small knitwear shop on your left and just a little further up was Fairhurst's,another Grocers shop.So many shops in one small street,there must have been hundreds of them all over Wigan.