Guestbook

I'd like to thank Ron Hunt for submitting the Standish Parish Register for 1875 as it contained information about my ancestors in the area and provided interesting insights into the area and its history. If there are any other magazines available I'd love to see them. Thank you again to all associated with the Wigan World site

the man asking about clowns bar the pearson dressed as a woman was called divinia his real name was david then him and his partner ( split up now ) ran shaperos

luv the site, but i cant log in did not receive an e-mail

Lynn Hale ... Greetings from New Zealand, your grandfather used to paint and paper my parents house back in the 1950s !!

HI
I am still looking for the Bradley family from Yates Street from the 40's'and 50's also Alan Foster who used to live at the Crown pub in Miry Lane i would just love to know how they are doing, if you are still around please just drop a line via the guestbook as i said before i am Isabel who used to come to Wigan on long visits to my Auntie Rose (Hastie) who lived in York Street. I went to school for a while at a school just off Walgate, can't remember what it was called but it was before the bridge in a street on the righthand side if you are walking towards town
They were very happy days for me and I often think of all the friends I made back then,
I also used to take out a baby from Lee street (the nex cul-de-sac down from Yates street)called Linda I think she must be in her late 50's by now I can't beleive all those year have gone by
hope the families that I have mentioned happened to read this

I was born in the Institute for the Deaf in Swinley Road and moved to Bridgeman Terrace as a baby. Mr Clough, the dentist bought our house and we moved to Higher Ince. My brother Eugene and sister Stella went to Gidlow School, I went to Hindley & Abram GS. I was Lorna Gimson then. Does anyone remember us?

i think the site is fantastic and the photos of upholland are amazing my dad is brian and my grandparents were robert hale and hilda hale (ashcroft) i came across my great grandparents on the census and was overwelmed

Came across this site while trying to trace my eldest brother Peter John Hill of Heath Street Golborne. Mum and dad used to own the paper shop in Heath street. My other brothers are Kenneth and Stephen and sister Carole.

Hi to BILL EGERTON just browsing and saw your mess 26/7. How are you and C? Hope you are well
Joyce

a good site

Does anyone remember Tom and Hilda Moss who ran the dancing school? I have a photo of Julie Scholfield, Lilian Price and me when we provided the cabaret interval at a dance.

Great site, I found the buriel place of my 2x Great Uncle, which is not what I was looking for, that was a bonus, I was looking for the coroners report on his death, his death certificate states he was killed when a large load of coal fell on him, age 23.
Keep up the great work,

Absolutley brilliant site, have recomended it to all at Genes Reunited. It has given me a whole understanding of how my relatives lived, and how they should'nt have!
Just a quick question does anyone know if
Ironmongers Lane,Gores Yard, Wigan.
is still there, it was on a map in 1933.
heres hoping.
Many thanks

I think this site is brilliant love looking at the photographs of wigan old and new

As Phillip Croston said in Woodville Terrace, in Douglas IOM, 1973...
Splendid...

Hello Kathleen, do you mean Anette Kay and Billy Arnold
Henry now living in Germany

FOR DAVE MARSH
THANKS FOR THAT DAVE, I REMEMBER NOW THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT IT TO MIND, THAT IT WAS YATES STREET I SHOULD HAVE KNOW BECAUSE I WROTE LETTERS TO MAY BRADLEY WHO LIVED THERE FOR A LONG TIME
I NOW JUST HAVE TO TRACE THE FAMILY
MANY THANKS
ISABEL

i am looking for the name of a street can anybody help
if you went down miry lane past the platelayers pub and then past toppings the sweet shop on the same side as the sweet shop just a few yards down there was a little cu-de-sac opposite the crown pub
can anyone tell me the name of the street
i am trying to find a friend who lived there in the early 50's
i am just having so much fun with your site
ITS GREAT

I am looking for a friend named Annette (prob about 61 or 62 now) she lived on Mucklow Estates and was going with a guy named Billy he had a motorbike and his parents owned a pub at the top of the main street in Hindley there was a movie place there also anyone know them???? and can you tell me how I can add some pictures to the site? I think your site it great, in fact isnt Derek Evans who started this, if so he lived a few doors from me on Bolton Road, anyone remember Wendy Davis?? she lived across the street near my cousin Mavis.

HI
ITS ME AGAIN ISABEL, I JUST WONDERED IF ANY ONE HAS ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE BRADLEY FAMILY
THEY LIVED IN A LITTLE STREET JUST ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE CROWN PUB I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT(MY AUNT LIVED IN YORK STREET JUST AROUND THE CORNER) THEY HAD FOUR KIDS MAY,DOREEN,BILLY AND I THINK THE YOUNGEST WAS FRANK.
MAY AND I USED TO TAKE OUT BABIES TO MESNES
PARK THIS WAS A FAVORITE THING FOR LITTLE GIRLS TO DO IN THOSE DAYS,ALSO WE USED TO SIT ON THE STEPS OF THE CROWN PUB WITH LOADS OF OTHER KIDS.
MAY AND I USED TO GO OVER THE IRON BRIDGE TO THE PICTURES WHEN WE HAD THE MONEY. WE WROTE TO EACH OTHER FOR YEARS AND THEN WE LOST TOUCH. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO EMAIL HER TO CATCH UP ON OUR LIVES
ISABEL