Wigan Album

Yes, I would say it is heading for Wembley with the Wigan notice on the front, but the style of the coach reminds me so much of when we were children in the days when not many people in Ince , (or other districts of Wigan), owned a car, and someone in the street used to "get a coach up" for Blackpool Illuminations. Our Mams could pay weekly and oh! the excitement, setting off at tea-time on an evening in early Autumn with all the neighbours! I don't imagine children today, (who even get taken to school by car!), could ever begin to imagine what it felt like....I actually feel rather sorry for them, never experiencing the novelty of it all. I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Did they have their business in Goose Green?.

Yes they did Albert, at least until a few years ago. You can just about make out their premises on the aerial photograph just down the page. I seem to recall that they had ' Gay Time Tours ' written across the back of their coaches. I suspect if you tried that nowadays you'd probably get back to the coach to find all the windows broken.

Warrington Rd, Goose Green

Albert ,unsworths coach depot was facing the Tay barns whitch is now the petrol station.

Albert,
Yes, the office was in Warrington Road, round the corner from St. Paul's Avenue, with the garage also in Warrington Rd. just short of the boundary with Bryn.

Yes I remember most of the street kids going to the Blackpool illuminations in a coach like that one. It.took ages to get there - no motorway then. I was always sick coming back.

There was no stopping to visit the Pleasure Beach as there is now.....it was just through the "Lights" and back home, though I think we stopped at a roadside café. We used to sing, "For 'e's a jolly good driver, for 'e's a jolly good driver, for 'e's a jolly good dri-hi-verrrrr.......'e's just run o'er mi dad"!

How about " my eyes are dim I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me, I ha.....have no....hot brought my......hy specs with me". Or maybe you didn't do that one round Wigan.

Oh yes we did!!!

Glad you brought that up Irene .Yes my Mam and her mate used to get coaches up .Been to watch Black and White Minstrals at Winter Gardens in Morecambe and Cilla at Opera house in Blackpool ,great nights out .In them days top artist like Cliff Ken Dodd Frank Ifield Englebert all used to o Summer season May to October ,Like to see these so called stars do that these days .