Wigan Album

Very interesting photo. Just looked up Timothy White and came across this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Whites

My cousin worked at this chemist in the early 70's what it was a branch of Boot's.

A sign of the times that people used to leave babies outside shops in their prams; no-one thought it odd in those days!

What a great photo, brings back so many memories.

what a great picture,
The pram outside the shop, was a bit late to be mine, but I certainly remember the almost daily walks pushing the Silver Cross - high pram from Kitt Green to Pemberton. There you had to go to find the nearest Chemist, Doctor, Bakery, Baby wear Shop, Pet Shop, decorator's supplies, and many more. nobody thought anything about it, as we were all doing this. I can even remember walking off to my next errand, having abandoned my son at my previous call. I wish we could revert back to those days of trust.

The shop and bank are till there under different ownership, the police station on the right was demolished a few years ago.

Timothy Whites is it the newsagents now

No Dave, the bank extended its premises into what was Timothy Whites. The newsagents is the next shop down.

William Deacons bank became William & Glyn before the Royal Bank of Scotland took it over. This photo was taken a long time before the infamous "hole in the wall cash machine" was installed in what was then the front door of the bank !!

brings back lots of memories,never been in pemberton proper for years.the opening at the side of the bank i think went up to st johns church.

No 178 you are rigth it does run up to st johns but the bank as not change.

The bank has changed Barry, it now occupies both premises.

The building with the notice on the side of the wall is the Pemberton Police Station. I suppose it is no longer used as a police station. I worked from this station in the early 60.

Not isn't it not a Police Station The building has been demolished I think it's now apartments?

The building on the left was the police station, it is now subway with flats above.

On the other side of the police station, on the main road, there was iron plaque set into the wall. It had a series of pairs of studs which were spaced precisely at 1 yard, 1 foot and 1 inch I think. As a kid they fascinated me, I suppose they were for traders to measure to avoid arguments about short measure but nobody seemed to know for sure. I wonder what happened to it.

Brian, I remember the measures, think they had gone by the late 1960s.

thank god I aint cracking up. I thought there was only me that remembered the plaque with the iron studs on it. I remember it being there up to 1970 at least.

I worked at Williams & Glyn's from leaving school in 1976. It was later taken over bu RBS. I loved working there opposite the police station. They were very happy days and Pemberton was such a happy friendly community, everyone knew each other. Lovely memories. So grateful to be a part of it.