Voses/UCP

Can anybody remember if steak and cow heel pies were sold at them places int 50s/60s?.

yes, at both of them.
Voses was opposite where Primark is now in Standishgate and UCP was where Lloyds bank is in market Street

Thanks orrellite was beginin to think I had had a dream .

My brother used to buy them from a pie shop I think was at the bottom of Makinsons Arcade.They were oval in shape,sticky and very tasty.this would be in the late 60's earlly70's

Yes, remember queueing with my Mam in Vose's to buy them.

U C P made beltin steak puddins to.

I remember going in to the UCP around 1956ish with my mother, father and cousin Margaret.
I can't remember what we ate, except that my mum, dad and myself all ordered the same thing, my cousin who was very young (4ish) had a childs menu.
Mum, Dad and I all finished our meals, my cousin couldn't finish hers, so 'waste not - want not' my father finished hers.
That night my father was 'violently sick' - the local doctor was called - and Colic was diagnosed.
We all thought that my father was going to die, but he didn't - however we never went into the UCP again.

In my memory, Voses and UCP were totally different shops. Voses was virtually opposite where McDonald's is now on Standishgate and sold tasty pies, whereas the UCP were on Market Street, as has been said.

The UCP also sold tripe, pigs' trotters and stuff like that and was called "the tripe shop" back then, but they did sell pies I believe. However, at that time I was just a small child.

There were many other now long gone pie shops, such as McCandlish's, Schofield's, Sayer's - just in the town centre, although McCandlish's and Schofield's were just slightly out of the centre of town down Darlington Street. I know that because that's where I lived as a child and their pies were fantastic. If you took a jug with you to Schofield's, they'd give you lots of gravy as well. It was deeeelish, and yes, before anybody argues with me, McCandlish's did re-locate to the the top of Wigan on Market Place opposite Woollies and near to Paige's dress shop.

Voses were good pies, but I don't remember them doing steak and cow heel pies.

They did a good minced beef pie....'cos I used to work at Smailles butchers in the old market hall and would deliver their minced beef on my bike with a large front basket like DelBoy (He wasn't the first, I was...!!!ha ha...) The mince was terrible with lots of fat in it. Yukkkkk....

But what good times though....