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Standish Market Place, 1930s
Standish Market Place, 1930s
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 29883
One of a few different views of the Market Place and St Wilfrid's loaned to me for scanning by Irene Stone.
Under the canopy there appears to be some kind of stone table, which I haven't picked out in other images of the well. Is it supposed to represent a washing table for the women of the village?
Anyone know what the building on the right - I presume on the corner of Bradley Lane - was?

Comment by: Roy on 15th November 2017 at 23:48

It was a house David, the Pilkington family lived there.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 16th November 2017 at 07:46

John Ambrose Pilkington, son of Joseph and Mary Ellen, was a casualty in WW1. His brother Harry came back. Their address is given as 1 Rectory Lane.

Comment by: John on 16th November 2017 at 12:22

Pilkingtons were still living there till at least the 1950s, as Roy will confirm.

Comment by: Roy on 16th November 2017 at 16:07

David, you have commented on a better view of the house than this, on Places, Standish, page 6 photo 3. Yes it would have been 1 Rectory Lane, although having said that the shops and houses seen in the photo were on the even numbered side of Market St, maybe Rectory Lane was numbered consecutively, in the 1881 census my gt,gt grandparents lived at 10 Rectory Lane, which I would imagine would have been on the same side lower down than the school. John, I think the Pilkingtons were probably there in the 60's.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 17th November 2017 at 14:06

Thanks for reminding me, Roy. That was just after we'd bought our house in Standish - but a year before we moved in... and four years before I started researching the names on the Standish War Memorials - and started to come across the addresses where men were mourned. There were quite a few in that immediate area.

Comment by: Bill on 17th November 2017 at 16:51

Hung around all night long on the steps with 5 woodies in the 60s, wish I had done my homework. Can't turn the clock back.

Comment by: sarah cooke on 12th March 2018 at 18:06

was that not harry robinson? he lived were ATS TYRES used to be it was a cottage back in the day he is on the war memorial /.. I and loads of pics of old Standish and wigan.

Comment by: Original Pilki on 12th April 2020 at 13:56

The Pilkington’s you refer to at 1 Rectory Lane were my great grandparents. My father, also John Ambrose was brought up there.

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