Wigan Album
Woodhouse Lane
27 CommentsPhoto: John Herries Watson
Item #: 30471
What a great photograph nice and clear. Thanks for posting it. I think this is the shop on the corner of Woodhouse lane and Springfield road.
ron, if you look, it's on the corner of ingram street, opposite the prince of wales.
Great photo John
I may be wrong but Ingram Street still exists off Woodhouse Lane so it can't be on the corner of Springfield Road?
Ron, it says "Ingram Street" on the side wall of the building.
Ingram Street!
Between Belle Vue and Prince of Wales pubs is a grassed space where this shop would have been.
Errr . . . Ron . . . it's on the corner of Ingram Street - the street sign is above the boot polish advert!
A wonderful pic, John. By coincidence, my great grandfather had a shop only seven doors away, at 218 Woodhouse Lane, but about twenty years earlier.
Well, if they're selling the stuff in cardboard boxes, then it's definitely Colman's starch for me. In fact, even though I have no use for the stuff, I'll make a point of insisting on having it. Never underestimate the power of advertising.....I also have a sudden inexplicable yearning for mustard as well, on a ham sandwich with Stork margarine on somebody's prize bread. Followed by a pint cup of Lyons tea before polishing my boots and going to bed with a mug of Rowntree's Cocoa. I guess I'm just an ad man's dream.
Ron
It was on the spare land on the opposite side of the street from The Prince of Wales.
What a great photo! Thanks for posting it.
I think its a bit further down Woodhouse Lane, Ron.
This shop is on the corner of Ingram st and wood house lane
Ingram street sign on the right of the Colmans sign. so it isn't there Ronnie.
Only just noticed the Ingram St sign.
You can bet there was no shoplifting in Mr Whittle's shop, he has a somewhat over powering presence judging by the way he stands in the doorway. It was a different shopping experience altogether then and not too far in the past to remember when most shops were a family run business on nearly every street corner. A photo to be treasured by the family.
What a lovely photo. Different world.
my auntie had a shop in caunce rd scholes she sat in the back room watching who came in through a mirror ,three little lads came in and nicked some toffee of the counter i told her ,she still on her chair said its allright tommy ive seen them i know there mothers i will put it on there bills in the strap book, when they get back home they will get a hiding from there mothers and they will stay have to pay .my auntie was mrs cox
Colman's DSF Mustard, wondered what DSF was, apparently it stands for Double Super Fine.
I can imagine the shop had an aroma all of its own, as other shops once had.
When I first looked at the photo and saw that it was on Woodhouse Lane I indeed like Ron thought that it was the shop which was on the corner of Woodhouse Lane and Springfield Road, which looked identical and which was there up until the 1980's and even then looking very much like the hop in the photo, the shop is still there now, although much altered and it is now a loan shark shop (log book loans)
Did you become a doctor John?
Did you at one time work with Sherlock?
The date is wrong also.
the shop on the corner of woodhose lane and springfield road was an outdoor license called the odd bottle
t, the Odd Bottle Off Licence had bottles on display in the window and one was scotch whisky, one night the window was broken and the whisky bottle stolen, however the lady who owned the shop told that the bottle contained old tea, I would have loved to see the expression on the thief's face when they expected to savour the malty tones of scotch only to get a gob full of manky old tea.
in Atherton in 1911
Name John Whittle
Age in 1911 23
Estimated Birth Year abt 1888
Relation to Head Boarder
Gender Male
Birth Place Atherton, Lancashire, England
Civil parish Atherton
Search Photos Atherton, Lancashire, England
County/Island Lancashire
Country England
Street Address 19 Cambridge St Atherton
Marital Status Married
Occupation Grocers Assistant
Registration district Leigh
Registration District Number 460
Sub-registration district Atherton
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 23234
Household Members
Name Age
William Farrimond 27
Sarha Farrimond 26
Alice Farrimond 2
John Whittle 23
Annie Whittle 24
in Blackpool in 1939
Whittle Household (4 People)
5 North Promenade Boarding House , Thornton Cleveleys U.D., Lancashire, England
FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS
John Whittle 07 May 1887 Male Grocers Shop Keeper Married
Annie Whittle 29 Jun 1886 Female Apartment House Keeper Married
Annie Watson (Whittle) 17 Oct 1921 Female Seeking Work Single
Alice Wagstaffe (Heywood) 16 Jan 1914 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
defo there in the 1920s when there children were born
There is a mix up, the shop on the corner of Springfield Road was Johnnie Browns outdoor licence, Mum (93 now) went for her dad a jug of ale after he had finished his shift in the John Pit, across was Stringfellows coach booking office.
This was my Dad’s shop after MrWhittle. Albert Crank. Was on the corner of Woodhouse Lane and Ingram Street. Opposite was The Prince of Wales pub.