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Royal Hotel regulars
Royal Hotel regulars
Photo: Bill Aldridge
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Item #: 30183
Outside the Royal (my dad's local). The cups are the RFL Challenge Trophy and the Lancashire Challenge Trophy - year I'm guessing 1951/52

Comment by: jack on 4th February 2018 at 16:44

Bill.Please excuse my ignorance but where is or was The Royal?.

Comment by: irene roberts on 4th February 2018 at 18:00

Is The Royal in Hindley? The name Aldridge makes me think it may be; I remember someone from school called Aldridge. If so, I had my Wedding Reception there but the pub is now demolished. When it was pulled down, they found a gravestone in the cellar, as if someone had been buried there; I think it was that of a child.

Comment by: Ken on 4th February 2018 at 20:33

Is this New Springs?.

Comment by: Bill Aldridge on 5th February 2018 at 09:38

Top of Castle Hill Hindley (opposite the cemetery - now flats)

Comment by: Alan Wright on 5th February 2018 at 14:23

Memory might be playing tricks, but I think I recognise a few of these blokes. Second from left at back looks like Charlie Priestley; the bloke in the middle with glasses looks like Jimmy Brennan, and the tall one on his left shoulder at the back could be Tony Easterway, who used to own Westhoughton dog track. My mum and dad used to go in the Royal in the fifties when we lived in Sandy Lane.

Comment by: churnside harold @yahoo.co.uk on 18th February 2018 at 18:54

i have seen this photo on wigan world before there are some crown green bowlers on it from st benedicts there is only one who is still with us of the ones i know

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