Wigan Album

I'm not totally sure, but it may have been P A Kinley's.

It was a hardware shop. I think it was Roger Boulton and co. in the 1940’s

Good question.

I spy a 'degging' can hanging up... Looks like the flat cap brigade are out in force.. I see a bit of gossiping is going on between those two ladies... on about 'er next door - not moppin' t'step again.

Roger Bolton .......Kinley's was in King St.

Sherringtons??

Something else you don't see these days - a pram left outside a shop. It was a common occurrence at one time. At home the baby would be put outside the front door as well to get some fresh air. No way would that happen nowadays - so much has changed.

Sherringtons.........Makinsons Arcade

A great bit of fun is picking-out those little gems, Veronica. And your Garden accessories, Janglers and members of the 'Brigade had encouraged me to spot a funny-shaped thing at the kerbside, which at first glance, seemed to be a rum lad doing The Haka, but nay, it has to be the road-sweeper's cart.

If only the All Blacks were so easy to side step Philip.

Aye,it's not just the shops Philip it's the lovely people of Wigan one would frequently 'bump' into. In those days ladies dressed up not down to go shopping up town. Different times, different people..

That's right Poet: Not many free runs against the three-time World Cup winners - The Webb Ellis Cup is a real beauty too.

I remember going into Pooles cafe around 50 years ago.It was definitely in that area and on that side of the street but not sure which side of Boots it would be?

I wonder what those two ladies in front of Boots would have thought, if they saw a couple of our modern ladies with tattoos everywhere on their bodies, piercings in their noses, lips and ears . They even knew how to stand when gossiping in our day . The gossip would change , as Les Dawson would do , from normal to whisper . Never was a secret betrayed ...
Great Post DTease , Thank you for another great picture .

I used to wonder what it meant when the conversation became hushed and " she's had everything took away " was mentioned between my mother and a neighbour! I thought all her furniture had been taken out of the house!

It's impossible to cross a car-less road, with the trusting mien of those shown here, in this day and age - Vroom, Vroom!

I remember back in the 50's Boots had a lending library upstairs in their shop.

Wasn't Brown's the butcher just further down?

I remember there was a dentist above one of these shops, but can't remember which one?

Linma - 'Butcher Brown' the dentist had his surgery somewhere near the bank in the picture.

I remember going to that dentist in the late 50's to have a tooth out using gas.Afterwards my mother took me into Woolies to the snack bar and gave me a drink and I fainted over.I think the dentist was Browns.

Brown's dentist was further down - nearer to the Home Stores. Enough to put the fear in you in those days. I think my mother had all her teeth out there, (aged 30) It was a strategy to beat pain in the future and it was free on the NHS I believe.

I seem to remember an upstairs outfit known as Brown, Langford and Lawson, where and when the feel of a rubber mask on my face led to my almost instant departure from an unusual chair, and 'he who must be obeyed', and dad, shared some brief sort of mirth, moments later.
Orrell Post 'school clinic' gave me the same rubber-clad nightmarish thrill of lifetime a few years earlier, and before I come out on top against two of 'em'; the lady saying, later, to my mother, 'Your Philip's as strong as a horse'.
Return visits to both practices were less-stressful.

P A Kinley's was, besides their shop in King St, also at 12 Standishgate though the shop in the photo on Album, (link below) isn't the one in this photo. However there is a photo from 1960s (link below) on the Album showing this shop between Boots and Nat West and the name then is Makinson, whether this is the tea/coffee dealer or an Ironmonger I couldn't say, Richard Makinson is listed in Worral's being at 34 Standishgate, though this was in 1881 and they would have moved to Makinson Arcade/Woodcock St well before the 1960s, also the shop in the photo would be a low address number depending on where Standishgate begins.
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=26228&gallery=Standishgate&offset=100

I hadn't put the link on for the photo in the Album showing P A Kinley's shop on Standishgate within my previous post, here it is.
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=8&id=30699&gallery=Shops&offset=0

The link to Kinley's I put on was the one of the letterhead printing plate, however this is the link to the photo of Kinley's shop on Standishgate that is on Stuff.
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/bgdisp.php?opt=bg&subopt=bg12

William Kenyon.You are right.A subscription Library,thick pile carpets & mahogany bookcases.Those of us who we're members thought we had arrived.Are you the William Kenyon who was at WGS with me 1943-51? A nephew of the Lewthwaites?z6283

The shop in question Was George Makinson's first shop.

Remember John Collier got my first made to measure suit from there works

Thanks Ken, he must have done very well for to move into the building on Station Road and then later in the old station, the company later went down Miry Lane as I went there for a part for a Rayburn heater.
Someone's mentioned on another thread that Bolton's hardware shop was further up on the corner of what was the Market Arcade, aka little arcade.

Browns dentist (my dentist) has evolved over the years. The doorway is still in Standishgate although the surgery is no longer there. I have been with this practice all my life from Mr Brown, Mr Lawson and Mr Langford. Now it’s “My Dentist” next to Mesnes House and I’m glad I’ve stuck with them through the years

Browns was also my dentist, and when I moved to Manchester in 1975 I still kept to the dentist, taking my three children there. Lynn Smith who went to the same school as me was a dental nurse there.