Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

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.