Wigan Album

This is in front of The Institute on The Green in Eccleston Jims Bar was a wooden hut next door' previously a cobblers
The chimney is the New Mill

Thanks so much for the info AB, my granddad worked at both New Mill & Grove Mill in Eccleston.

Ian, This is a 60,s photo, And this is the nearest bus stop to The New Mil for the Wigan/Standish bus

Thanks AB, my granddad lived in Newtown, Wigan so was probably waiting for the bus.

Hi AB, photo must be earlier than 60's, just checked and my granddad died in 1957.

Thanka Ian sorry, I caught the bus to Leyland across the road the road from this every day in the fifties.( before Specsavers0

Jims bar is still there but its a chippy now

My Uncle Walter Mackrael in on the bike in the picture, he was 16 and wanted a picture with the man who had trained him and was about to retire. Year was 1954