Login   |   Register   |   
Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan



Wigan Album

Wiganers on Holiday

10 Comments

A day out in Blackpool.
A day out in Blackpool.
Photo: Veronica.
Views: 2,807
Item #: 29470
My friend Pat and myself in Blackpool in 1963, the year before she emigrated to Australia. The Wiigan connection being we both lived in Scholes.

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 21st June 2017 at 13:50

Looks as though your friend Pat and yourself had turned your backs on those "Kiss Me Quick" hats. That's the spirit; make 'em' buy a programme.

Comment by: Garry on 21st June 2017 at 17:32

Superb!

Comment by: irene roberts on 21st June 2017 at 18:59

That's lovely, Veronica, and so evocative of the time. I have a book of photos of Blackpool in the early sixties and that hat-stall is in it.

Comment by: Veronica on 21st June 2017 at 20:29

Pat and I had a reunion about 3 years ago in Debenhams of all places. She had beautiful red hair and I wanted my hair that colour... Out I went and bought some 'Bandbox'and it bleached it a brassy colour..it was awful. My dad said"what have you done to your hair?" I just said' I've washed it'!
Daft as a brush at that age!

Comment by: . Ozymandias . on 21st June 2017 at 21:26

I once went out with a redhead Veronica. This poor girl had no hair unfortunately, just a red head. Sorry, I've only just returned from the cellar, having sampled the 2014 vintage Chateau d'Oz ' Parallel 52.6 elderberry surprise '. It's a cheeky little vintage with the aroma of pencil shavings at the bottom of an oak drawer and just a hint of elderberries. The surprise part being that there's still any left.

Comment by: Sam,h. on 22nd June 2017 at 11:41

Bet you had all the boys after you Veronica, smart pretty girl.

Comment by: Veronica on 22nd June 2017 at 12:30

Thanks Sam I didn't really because my dad was very strict and I always had to be home at a certain time and I couldn't go out every night either! Funny that because my brother wasn't treated like that. I had to do what I was told.

Comment by: Sam,h on 22nd June 2017 at 17:32

Veronica, i had three sisters and they had to go by the same rules, but as I was the youngest if I saw them chatting to any boys I could always get a mars bar or pack of spangles out of them, think it is called blackmail we laugh about it these days

Comment by: Theresa reeves on 27th June 2017 at 00:42

Veronica you are the spitting image of your dad in this pic

Comment by: Veronica on 27th June 2017 at 09:12

Theres one with my dad coming on Theresa -I think you might have seen it though. The photos will be under Catterall.

Leave a comment?

* Enter the 5 digit code to the right of the input box. Don't worry if you make a mistake, you will get another chance. Your comments won't be lost.