Wigan Album
Scholes
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Photo: Frank Orrell
Item #: 31839
These are a feast of photos with different views. The ' stinky' urinal seems a lot wider than I remember. The river was a lot more free flowing at this point and louder. I loved looking over the bridge as a child. The shops and buildings are very clear, with the old and new.
Looks like the photo might have been taken from one of the floodlight masts at Central Park.Sadly missed - all of it!!
This is an interesting picture of Scholes in 1967. Three of the high rise flats are nearly completed, Crompton, Derby and Woodcock House (Mannion House is only half built and work on Brook House hasn't started. The Westwood power station chimneys, gas holders, and the Three Sisters slag heaps near Ashton can be seen. The flats, Limefield, Orchard and Withnall House identical to those in Worsley Mesnes and Dumbarton Green, Beech Hill are only two years old. And in Greenough Street all the buildings were demolished except those at the bottom, that included Maidwell sewing factory, Rogersons motorbikes, a fish and chip shop, Visionhire, and a womens clothes shop that only went in 1985 to make way for the ring road. Behind was Clarence Street. I think the car in Greenough Street is a Vauxhall Velox or Cresta PA. the most American looking British car especially one in two tone pink and cream.
Isn't that one of the green-painted Gents' urinals backing onto the river wall? I expect it addd to the smell of the Douglas....
It was always packed on match day all straight in the duggy
Looks like Scholes precinct being built top left, but what's the tall dark shape to the right of it?
Mr X. I think the tower block in the far distance is actually Douglas House. Rogersons right at the bottom of Scholes under the railway bridge. My Dad bought a Vespa there in 1862.
Carolaen that made me laugh - your dad buying a Vespa in 1862? It must have been a good 'in! I too bought a ladies 'shopper' from there a bit later on. It was hard going though having smaller wheels, I ended up swapping it for a ladie's racer.
Bloomin typos. 1962 of course !!