Wigan Album
Wellfield Hotel, Beech Hill 1966
8 CommentsPhoto: Keith
Item #: 31726
If thoughts could speak or memories reach,
a time we all and each... knew then..
If I did that with my leg now it would probably mean a visit to A&E and a couple of weeks in bed!
It reminds me of myself as a child, turned out in the morning clean as a new pin, at the end of the day, sometimes, bedraggled and dirty through play! There was no 'play' out clothes then! No bath either, a stand up wash at the sink!
Wellfield Road, Beech Hill in 1966 and the red and white car is a Triumph Herald. The black and white cars are more difficult to identify, possibly Vauxhall Victor, Ford Corsair or Cortina.The black one may even be a Mercedes.
What a wonderful photo. What children today should be doing, playing outdoors getting excercise and fresh air. Today, kids are glued to their tablets, and worse, have a mobile phone stuck to their ears which cannot be good for their health, yet irresponsible and lazy parents let them have them with the excuse that they need them to know where they are (what did we do before mobile phones? we just got on with it). Then they're stuck indoors with all the EMF pollution from their Wi-Fi decices, and when they go to school they have no privacy because they have CCTV cameras everywhere; where are parents priorities?. Kids today are increasingly becoming more stressed because of all the unnecessary exams they have to take and all the bombardment of social media.
Is this the same niece who appears in the Hope Street album, in your photo Item #: 30897 Keith?
She sits upon the pavement-wall,
In childhood, rather twee,
And wears her dress of pearly blue,
Beside a beechwood tree.
But then she stays the camera's paw,
- No chance young 'Madam Muddle' -
And gives a clear, defining plea . . .
"Please see my broken buckle!"
Hi Kathleen, it is indeed the same niece, now married and living near Edinburgh with her husband and family.