Wigan Album

That is a belter. I can just remember going into that shop for pop and ice cream when visiting Haigh Hall.

would be interesting to know which is the real place name here, Marriebone as on the photograph title or on the P O sign over the doorway Marylebone.

I have never seen or heard of this being referred to as Mariebonne before. When and why did it become the Marleybone I have always known it as?

Obviously some people don't look at anything else on the site only this page...Check out the ALBUM. PLACES. MARRIEBONNE

I allways thought that originaly it was marie-le-bon

That's a bit unnecessarilly rude, Scaramouche. An apology may be in order, I think.

No - people don't look at every page on this site. Why do you think they should? It was a reasonable question.

So, did 'le' get dropped from the name sometime after the Post Office had its signage painted?

old maps refer it as either Marylebone or Mariebonne

Is this in Scholes? Also was there a St Mary's church nearby The London district now often pronounced Marlybone was originally named for a church, St Mary's and Bon was adapted over the years from the original court French "Bourn" meaning stream which ran near the church.

Grannieannie, this is just beyond Wigan Infirmary on the opposite side of the road and going towards the Cherry Gardens pub and Standish. There is a small park opposite known as Marleybone Park. What was the Post Office is now a house and the adjacent cottages are long gone.

It says the word Marriebone on the side of the building, probably level with the top of the shop window on this photo, but i notice the present'owner'has painted over it when painting the whole of the building and not repainted the letters which were in black, it is a metal sign.

G.L.
over the years I have noticed that on this site the rudeness level is creeping up..
That is why I hardly ever visit this site anymore & will no longer contribute photos.
despite having many photos of the local area.
No point!!!.

I'd sooner bin them.

If you have a lot of photos of the local area, Why have you not put them on before?? I don't think Scaramouche was 'being rude' He was pointing out that there is a lot of information on the site if only people would look.

The roof line has changed since this photo was taken. It was still a post office (or a shop of sorts) when I was in my first year at Notre Dame at school at The Hollies. We used to sneak out of the side of the school ground across the courts to buy sweets etc. Totally against the school rules!

I have been there today, as i said the building has been painted, but the letters have been taken off the backplate which has been painted but they, as yet, have not yet been re-attached.

I am very surprised and interested in this postcard image, as I believe that my great-grandparents lived in the post office, in the late 1800s. My grandmother's name before her marriage was Edith Mary Barratt or possibly Barrett. My father always said the name reminded him of a London railway station.

The road sign on the gable end wall now says ‘Mariebonne’, I think the name derives from Mary or Marie-le-Bonne or Bone.
The view on the picture is much nicer than the present day.