Wigan Album

lovely old pic eddie , are you any relation to billy porter he also lived on school brow .

Another wonderful shot Eddie. Is this looking East toward London Fields?

those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end.

Antar.Billy Porter is my younger brother .
G.W. No,it is looking west across Main St. During the war, from my bedroom window I could see the sky lit up as they bombed Liverpool at night.

Eddie; did you have an Anderson shelter? We bought ours and used it as a garden shed after the war ended.

Ernest, you were posh, i relied on the communal ones provided by the local authorities.

And how did that classic early 40's Salmon River King handle the bend at the bottom of Main St Eddie?

G.W. All the way from church brow to the bottom of Birchley, then drag it up Mossbank and down the other side to Victoria Park!!!!
Ernie. The curved sections were used for all kinds of things after the war, cover for the hens and geese etc.

Eddie; I only discovered, in a museum in Llandudno in 1995, that there was an indoor air raid shelter called Morrison. I met a Londoner, on a Shearings tour, who used his Morrison, as a workbench.
See:-
http://primaryfacts.com/508/morrison-shelter-facts/

Made a few of them in my time,always went down the Foggy, then down the hill 60 ,usually lost the wheels after a while , they were only secured with bent over nails over the pram wheel axle and the suspension wasn't up to much , but the steering mechanism was second to none,those who had a Trolly will know what I mean.

I made a couple up based on the rickety pram wheel and bent nail method John. Then a kindly neighbor donated me a box of ball bearings which we swifty belted over the 2x2 axles. I called it the thunderbird 1. [I'm still recovering]

Great picture. Brilliant trolley.