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Penningtons last days
Penningtons last days
Photo: Gerry
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Item #: 15282
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Comment by: Maureen Andrews [nee Mcgovern] on 14th July 2010 at 16:48

My Mam bought all of our bedroom furniture from there,That must have been in the 50's,she had it until she passed away in 97,and it still looked good,I loved polishing it as a child,wardrobes,tallboys,dressing tables...I'm really reminiscing now.

Comment by: SJB on 14th July 2010 at 18:08

What was the Georgian building next to it that has been saved as a listed building?

Comment by: Gem on 14th July 2010 at 22:09

it was originally a private home but became part of Penningtons.

Comment by: bob on 14th July 2010 at 23:49

there is a cherubs face over the door of the georgean building, it was put there by the parents of a little girl who once lived there, she drowned at the back in the dougie before they changed its course.

Comment by: GEOFF GASKELL on 15th July 2010 at 08:05

I still have a Pennington's small wardrobe in the garage as a cupboard. It was bought by Vera in the late 60's before we were married. It is still useful and better than MFI which would not have stood this long.

Comment by: SJB on 15th July 2010 at 19:04

When was it built?

Comment by: Ian McL on 16th July 2010 at 09:01

I've written quite a bit about the Georgian building now referred to as "Pennington's" (somewhere on Wigan World); In the mid-late 1700's it was the home of Albert Whitehouse who painted quite a number of scenes of Wigan, especially Market Place and The Royal Hotel & Eagle and Child . . . I hadn't heard the story of the cherub's face before; geographically it would be possible with the original course of the Douglas looping close to the rear of the property at the bottom of Stairgate.

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