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Dicconson Street, Wigan

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Shops
Shops
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 28352
Shops at the Standishgate end of Dicconson Street.
Thanks to Trevor Smith( Smith's Book Shop) for the photograph.
I can remember going into Clifton Book Shop as though it was yesterday. I think the man who owned it lived in Ashton? I have seen him since at various local Book Fairs

Comment by: Maureen on 22nd September 2016 at 12:35

The shop on this side of the hall used to belong to my Auntie..she used to take in refugees ..that's going back a bit..it was a milliners then.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 22nd September 2016 at 15:50

I can remember going to the SCHOLL shop to visit the chiropodist, which was either next door or next door but one to the bookshop. Is the Scholl company still making the wooden clog type shoes? They were supposedly to be very good for your feet and at the time were quite expensive

Comment by: DerekB on 22nd September 2016 at 17:38

Don't know if it was one of these shops originally or if it is out of shot on this photograph, but Plumb's TV and Hi-Fi dealers first shop was on this row.

Comment by: John on 22nd September 2016 at 23:40

Gordon Smalley's barber's shop was in this row for many years. You went through the more-or-less empty front shop to the barber's in the back.

Comment by: paul on 22nd September 2016 at 23:49

Bill Davies sq deal shop was on the corner, and the old school type building once was Preston's furniture shop.

Comment by: Helen of Troy on 23rd September 2016 at 07:46

That must be the Wesleyan School ?

Comment by: Jack on 26th September 2016 at 11:41

Paul I thought Prestons was on Standishgate opposite the old electric showrooms.

Comment by: DerekB on 26th September 2016 at 16:20

Jack, you are right - Preston's was on the other side of the road opposite the Electricity showrooms - they also had a shop in Market St. on the site of the original Lloyds Bank. There was a furniture shop next to Bill Davies which was a local firm who made furniture to order but I can't recall the name.

Comment by: DerekB on 26th September 2016 at 17:14

Jack/Paul - I have had a brainstorm since my last posting. I think the furniture shop whose name I couldn't remember went by the name of Vic Standish.

Comment by: A.W. on 18th October 2016 at 08:43

Derek B. Standish's, the furniture and cabinet maker's shop was round the corner on Standishgate. It closed in the early-mid 80's and if I remember rightly it was a pram shop for a time till the buildings were demolished.

Comment by: Frank on 21st October 2016 at 20:04

The furniture shop in the old Methodist church was owned by two gents called David Dunn & Jack Roberts who sold basic suites and furniture. They also delivered fireplaces for Bill Davies (Square Deal shop) with the help of one of Bill's 'unofficial' employees, who was known as 'Smelly Johnny'.

Comment by: Florence_Street on 19th December 2021 at 16:15

The Clifton Bookshop was David Shaw.

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