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1933 street index says Zulu Street is at 40 Silver Street.

Zulu St was off Spring St Ozy

It's off Silver St ....you can just make it out but you could see the street from Spring St

our owd sreet Stanley St on there

never heard of Prim Hill by Balc though

What a thriving community Scholes was. although many of its residents' were not flushed with money, the beating heart of the place was emphatic. Has it lost that old momentum, or is it still there?.

It is of interest Ozy, my grandparents lived at firstly 31 then 39 Bolton Street (top right on map) where my mother was born August 1912. I remember visiting grandma and granddad when I was a small boy they had a small shop at #39. If anyone has a photo of Bolton St, Scholes - please could you post it on WW.

Prim Hill is short for Primrose Hill

A lad in our class, Martland, lived on Primrose Hill in the forties .I recall it being a row of cottages behind Whelley Legion and according to my family tree my great grandfather lived there at one time

Mint Cottages was on Primrose Hill about twenty yards higher up than Balc pub set back

Should have said Mint Court cottages

I must say the idea of a hill in Scholes with primroses and mint growing around pretty cottages takes a huge stretch of imagination.

I think I'll just plead the fifth amendment on that one DTease.

Lived in the Up Side down houses from 1971. Love to know the layout?

I used to live at Mint Court, my family lived there for many years,I had cousins that used to live in Stanley St and Knowles St.

My Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Causey, lived in Mint Court in 1851 with her parents.

My Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Causey, lived in Mint Court in 1851 with her parents.

Helen B. Are you any relation to John Causey?. He was a police officer in the Wigan Borough Police, in the fifties, and sixties.

Albert, it's possible that we are related, but not that I am aware. ELIZABETH married my G/Grandfather JOHN GILMOUR in 1872, so I haven't traced the surname forward. I have traced the CAUSEY family back to 1690 though.

Just put it on, as an off chance, Helen B. I served with him at that time, although he wasn't on the same section, that I was on. He lived in a police house, in Poolstock.

Albert, I would dearly love to hook up with my 'CAUSEY cousins'.

Albert, I would dearly love to hook up with my 'CAUSEY cousins'.

Helen B. John sadly passed away many years ago, May he R.I.P. His widow may still be with us. Probably the Wigan N.A.R.P.O secretary may help you regarding this, if you so desire..

Albert, I think that's a bit of a long shot, but will keep an eye on this image, and hope to hear from a 'CAUSEY cousin'.

Helen B, it may be of interest to you, the Causey family lived a few doors down from me in Ellis Street, Whelley in the 40s and 50s. I remember a girl called Edna Causey. Incidentally, my mother Dorothy Dootson nee Dean was born on Primrose Hill and then moved to Salmon Street.

John D,
Thanks for that, probably part of the same family. 1911 Census found my Causey's in Linney Street, and according to the Cemetery records on Wigan World, some were still there in the '50's & '60's when they died.

Hi Hazel and Albert, John Causey was my Grandad's brother. I have been told he died at the young age of 33 a few months after a rescue attempt of a driver of a vehicle who had gone into the canal at Martland Mill. My Grandads family came from Scholes, many thanks Andrew