Wigan Album
Wigan Lane
7 CommentsPhoto: DTease
Item #: 31153
Or, as my son used to call it when he was little The Sherry Gardens.
Well this photo does jog my memory & it doesnt look much different to the image in my head of The Cherry Gardens which was just down from where my grandparents lived in St Clements Rd.
When in the early fifties I was enjoying a forty eight hour pass,. After a Saturday evening at the Wigan Empress Hall, and having made a date for a wintery Sunday meeting, my date and I called in this establishment for a drink. I asked her what was her preference. On answering, I nearly collapsed. She said. “I’ll have a brandy, and babysham. “. She said later” That did warm me”. Making a great hole in my thirty six shilling, and sixpence, per week.I replied “ I hope it did. It cost more than a bag of coal”. I lived, and I learned.
She must have thought you were rolling in dosh Albert... Bet you didn't ask her out again. I seem to recall you relating that story once before and I nearly choked myself laughing- but it must have been so embarrassing. I know coal was expensive so that must have been a very expensive drink.
Albert, your comments brought back a memory of a mate of mine once asking a new female acquaintance what she would like to drink and she replied "a brandy and a Babycham" His response was " No you won't, you'll have one or t'other". The relationship didn't flourish!!
Veronica/ DerekB. I was a little bit better off being an enlisted serviceman. A conscript ( National Service) only received twenty eight shillings a week.
Nice photo of a well kept building DTease. Pity it looks a lot worse now.It looked like it was closed the last time I passed.