memory
when living in Billinge Road as a child in the 50s we would often go out the back and climb over a wall . i remember lots of bricks lying around and i would hunt for bits of pretty tiles. This was behind the Railway pub wit Enfield Street on the left and the Blwling Green on the right. Where was I ?
Started: 4th Sep 2017 at 08:50
Kath
Most likely at what is now 269 Billinge Rd
A small industrial building set in a fenced yard
The Company that occupy the premises now are Fire Equipment Services Ltd
In the 60s I remember it had some old wooden gates that had Magee Marshal painted on
The property got to be really derelict before it was bought in 1973 and developed
Look here
The houses that are in the photo are the backs of Enfield Street just further up from what was the post office
Did you know Dick Aspey he lived a couple of doors away from what was the Co-op shop -- now a sign-maker is in there
Tom - can't remember his surname- may have been Simm - lived at the other end of the block of houses
Next door to the shop Lived Fishwicks
Ken Gee the Rugby League player was Landlord of Railway pub in the 1970s
Replied: 6th Sep 2017 at 23:39
Last edited by cordyline: 7th Sep 2017 at 15:52:59
cordyline - I lived at 259 which was next door to Aspeys. I remember watching Mr Aspey kill his chickens! Tom Simm lived at the bottom of Queen Street. My auntie who lived at 259 with us [the end house] was his other woman. I don't remember Fishwicks but I can remember playing witha boy who lived at the Railway.
Replied: 8th Sep 2017 at 08:39
tanks for the link cordline. The place I remember was pretty derelict. i never saw workers in there. just an old res brick building and lots of bricks and tiles scatterec about.
Replied: 8th Sep 2017 at 08:42
Somewhere - not sure where - I have a photo of the property when it was in a derelict state
If I ever find it I will post it here
The house that you lived in is now flats
look on streetview
Replied: 8th Sep 2017 at 09:58
My sister got married in 1960, they moved into a new semi-detached house in Alexandra Crescent off Billinge Road.
It was a new subdivision then.
Replied: 11th Sep 2017 at 10:58
By the way, I think they paid £1995.00 for it -how prices have changed in the past 57 years .....
Replied: 11th Sep 2017 at 11:04
A couple of years ago I saw 259 online for sale. It had been done up but was still a family home. It was a cold and draughty house when I lived there and there was a hole in the kitchen floor going into the cellar. I'd lve to see it now,
Replied: 12th Sep 2017 at 08:38
Kath have you seen the house from the outside ?
Type the address in on Streetview
Replied: 12th Sep 2017 at 15:04
On my last visit to Wigan in May I drove past 259 with my cousin . I was surprised to see the backs all gated off or we would have stopped and walked down.I'' have a toot on google earth
Replied: 13th Sep 2017 at 08:48
KathP
Just found a couple of photos of the wall that you scrambled over
Will try to scan them in later
Replied: 1st Oct 2017 at 21:38
That's where a lot of rubbish was dumped
photo taken in 1973
The shop on the front next door but one to Aspeys was a Co-op
The land in photo was originally stables for the delivery horse
Replied: 1st Oct 2017 at 22:07
Last edited by cordyline: 1st Oct 2017 at 22:10:41
Another photo showing an old van dumped there by Harry Woods a glass merchant
The house to the right was attached to the Bowling Green
Occupied at that time by Jack Shepherd and his wife
Their daughter - might have been Mary would be about 77 years old now
Did you know her ?
Replied: 1st Oct 2017 at 22:18
Last edited by cordyline: 9th Oct 2017 at 09:51:17
Hi,
Can you help? My Grandad lived on Billinge Rd in front of the station, he was called William Orme and his wife named Mary? I never met him as I didn't know that he existed, i was told that he died. Did you or your family know them, i believe they had 2 daughters.
Thanks
Replied: 3rd Oct 2017 at 13:08
Sorry should have said he lived at 255 Billinge Rd until 1971.
Thanks
Replied: 3rd Oct 2017 at 13:13
K Parkes
Sorry, I only knew the families that I mentioned
Oddly enough, the derelict land shown in the photos was until 1973 owned by Brian Parkes a builder who lived in Swinley, Wigan near to Dicconson St
I believe he died a few years ago
Replied: 3rd Oct 2017 at 15:02
That's the way to teach them, hands on.
Replied: 3rd Oct 2017 at 15:13
Replied: 3rd Oct 2017 at 16:04
cordyline - thanks for that photo. I remember it well but not with the weeds growing. I think the wall was higher too but then I was smaller.I remember Aspeys and the Coop - a proper old fashioned shop that was. I don't recall people at 255
Replied: 6th Oct 2017 at 08:54
Kath, yes the wall would have been higher in the 50s
It must have got further vandalised
Replied: 6th Oct 2017 at 22:49
Last edited by cordyline: 9th Oct 2017 at 09:54:20
Thank you anyway, was worth a try!
Replied: 9th Oct 2017 at 13:24