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Gregory & Son delivery van
Gregory & Son delivery van
Photo: Graham Taylor
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Item #: 29403
Another shot of the Gregory delivery van that Ron posted earlier with the same driver. The Gregory's really were a family of shopkeepers. When my great grandfather John who started the business died in 1902 his eldest son James opened a shop in Liverpool, John ran a grocers in Belle Green Lane, Thomas took over the bakery and shop in Kirkless St and Roger ran a grocers in High St, Standish. Their cousins Jonathan and Roger also had grocers shops in Hindley.

Comment by: Elizabeth on 4th June 2017 at 09:57

I remember my mum talking about Gregory's grocery shop in Belle Green Lane, where she lived as a child.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 4th June 2017 at 11:55

James Alfred, the only son of Roger, the brother who opened the shop in Standish, became a doctor, and went into the Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1. He was with the 12th Manchesters at the Battle of the Scarpe in April 1917, where he was fatally wounded, dying on 13th April.
He is commemorated on the family grave in St Wilfrid's churchyard, as well as on the village Cenotaph and the Peace Gate.

Comment by: Neil Cain on 5th June 2017 at 10:07

Graham, would John and family have lived in Hemfield Road off Belle Green Lane? My dad often spoke of Gregorys (he lived across in Francis St.)I am sure he said they were bakers

Comment by: Elizabeth on 8th June 2017 at 18:54

Yes, Gregory's shop (bakery) was on Hemfield Road, I remember my mum talking about it.

Comment by: Neil Cain on 12th June 2017 at 08:06

Thanks Elizabeth

Comment by: Steven Gregory on 14th February 2020 at 19:21

Graham, We must be related. John Gregory b.1829 d.1902 is my GGG Grandad. I've sent Ron a better quality scan of the model T van and driver. My dad thought the photo is c1915. Also sent Ron a photo of my Grandad John Gregory b.1908 and Great Grandad William Gregory b.1881 outside the grocers on Belle Green Lane. I knew his wife Annie d.1984 as she lived to 103!

Comment by: Steven Gregory on 16th February 2020 at 09:18

I also believe one of John Gregory's sons set up the 1st mechanised pie factory in the Wigan area, suppling pies on match days to Wigan RLFC.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 23rd January 2024 at 11:11

I came across this image whilst looking for information about a shop in Kirklees Street run by a member of the Gregory family - Thomas. He was the father of my neighbour, Ben Gregory, who would have been 100 years old in February, but has sadly recently died. Looking up the family Baptisms at St Catharines', I learned that Thomas was down as a Baker living at 36 Albert Street, Ince in 1914, when his eldest was born; then as a Baker at 30 Well Street, when the next was born in 1916; then a Labourer at 25 Kirkless Street in 1920, when the 3rd was born; then as an Iron Worker at 25 Kirklees Street in 1924, when Ben was born.
Thomas was the son of Thomas and Ann when Baptised himself in 1889, his father being a Carter, of Caroline Street, Ince. When he married May Littler at St Elizabeth's Aspull in 1914, he was down as a Baker, of 39 Kirkless Street.
I'm assuming that Thomas was the son of John and Elizabeth Gregory, living at Millgate, he being an Engine Tenter, at the Baptism at All Saints in 1862.
John Gregory, 73, was buried in Wigan Cemetery in 1902, from 37 Kirkless Street - the same address as Ann, Thomas' wife, 47, in 1909. Thomas, 57, was Buried from the Union Workhouse in 1920. John's wife Elizabeth, 78, was buried from 238 Belle Green Lane - their son John's home.
Ben's father, Thomas, 54, was buried from Kirkless Street in 1943, with May, his wife, 76, going from Pepper Lane in Standish.
Hemfield Road turns up in the Ince Burial record in 1921, with the burial of 11 moth-old James Alfred Gregory, son of Roger (obviously not the same James Alfred Gregory, son of Roger, Grocer, of Standish, killed in WW1 - but presumably named after him). The burial is in the same pair of graves as John Gregory jnr's (d. 58, 1918, Grocer)

Hopefully all this fits in with the family history other members of the large Gregory family have uncovered....

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