Wigan Album
Standish
17 CommentsPhoto: Barrie.
Item #: 30671
Now I have got to that age.
Majestic photo Barrie. Wonder what the headlines in the paper said.
What a great photo - life as it was - wonder what they said when they saw the developed photo! Much nicer seeing the family as they were than a 'posed' photo really.
Hi there pop pickers! A bit of scandal in the News of the World and The Top Twenty with Allan Freeman on the "Trannie". Just what was needed after the terrible winter of 62\63.
Nice photo from a time when Sunday was peace and quiet and time stood still. At first I thought the lady was reading the Wigan Observer, then I thought can't be, the Observer at that time was a real arm stretch.
Barrie none of us thought we would get to that age but it comes to us all! It's a shock when we realise we have turned into our mam's and dads!
Barrie: 'Mam - what times tea, I have 't' be out for 7.'
Mam: 'Yer 've only just had yer dinner- give me a bit o'peace for 5 minutes
will yer'!
Hope you don't mind Barrie!
Sunday evening...listening to Pick of the Pops?
No matter how hot the weather the ladies always wore their girdles and stockings, they must have been so hot.
It may have been hot Barrie but it wasn't hot enough to tempt the lad at the back to take his coat and cap off.
I remember my mam always took her corsets off and hung them on the back of a chair at night! They were an ugly pink colour with bones in them... I think she got them from a shop in Scholes called Liveseys.
Remember down your way on the radio Sunday evening,think it came on about 5 oclock
Folks, I am glad this photo has produced positive comments about a bygone era-the swinging 60's (or the start of it).
Veronica, you were nearly correct in the earlier comment, I did go out after 7pm and the result can been seen in #30669 photo. My Uncle always kept his cap on where ever he was, I think it a throwback to his youth in the early 1920's when it was the fashion in those days -my Dad used to wear one in his late teens/early 20's. The radio could be tuned to the Down your way as the photo was taken just before 5pm. Our garden was large in comparison to the rest of the Grove.The shadows were from 2 large Sycamore Trees on the edge of the lawn. I built a tree house in one of them in the late 50's.
My Dad would sit in our back yard as soon as the sun came out,he just loved it,but my Mam stayed indoors..she was olive skinned to start off with,and would go really dark in the sunshine,in fact she would go dark even indoors.wish they were here now...this scene has a nice atmosphere.
I have looked for the photo Barrie but nothing has popped up!
DTease/Garry the Sunday Express Mum would be reading.The other paper would be The Sunday Post (Scottish). The NOTW was not allowed in our household-Mum banned it and that was in 1961 after I started working. Do papers get banned in households now in the 21st Century?
Veronica, look in Places-Arley Hall and #30669 is there. "the lone fisherman"