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J.Gregory, Grocers and Bakers
J.Gregory, Grocers and Bakers
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 29399
Delivery van belonging to J.Gregory Grocers and Bakers Ince

Comment by: irene roberts on 1st June 2017 at 16:20

The corner shop near where I grew up in Ince was Connie's when I was a child, but my Mam, (who was in her forties when I was born), remembered it being Tom Gregory's, who I imagine was a member of the shop-keeping Gregory family. Apparently, he would split a ha'penny, and used to slip the bacon/ cooked meats etc. off the scale before the scale had properly registered the weight. Consequently, he was known a Owd Tom Slip.

Comment by: Graham Taylor on 1st March 2024 at 23:24

This is my gt/gt grandather James Gregory's business. He had a bakery in Kirklrss St. His son John opened a shop in Belle Green Lane.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 2nd March 2024 at 16:30

I came across another image of this van whilst looking for information about a shop in Kirklees Street run by a member of the Gregory family - Thomas. He was the father of my neighbour, Ben Gregory, who would have been 100 years old in February, but sadly died in January.
Looking up the family Baptisms at St Catharines', I learned that Thomas was down as a Baker living at 36 Albert Street, Ince in 1914, when his eldest was born; then as a Baker at 30 Well Street, when the next was born in 1916; then a Labourer at 25 Kirkless Street in 1920, when the 3rd was born; then as an Iron Worker at 25 Kirklees Street in 1924, when Ben was born.
Thomas was the son of Thomas and Ann when Baptised himself in 1889, his father being a Carter, of Caroline Street, Ince. When he married May Littler at St Elizabeth's Aspull in 1914, he was down as a Baker, of 39 Kirkless Street.
I'm assuming that Thomas was the son of John and Elizabeth Gregory, living at Millgate, he being an Engine Tenter, at the Baptism at All Saints in 1862.
John Gregory, 73, was buried in Wigan Cemetery in 1902, from 37 Kirkless Street - the same address as Ann, Thomas' wife, 47, in 1909. Thomas, 57, was Buried from the Union Workhouse in 1920. John's wife Elizabeth, 78, was buried from 238 Belle Green Lane - their son John's home.
Ben's father, Thomas, 54, was buried from Kirkless Street in 1943, with May, his wife, 76, going from Pepper Lane in Standish.
Hemfield Road turns up in the Ince Burial record in 1921, with the burial of 11 month-old James Alfred Gregory, son of Roger (obviously not the same James Alfred Gregory, son of Roger, Grocer, of Standish, killed in WW1 - but presumably named after him). The burial is in the same pair of graves as John Gregory jnr's (d. 58, 1918, Grocer)

Hopefully all this fits in with the family history other members of the large Gregory family have uncovered....

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