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

Yes Bambam, belting houses!…Solid well built property!
I sometimes bump into Sheilagh Liptrot and not so often Jimmy in the Simms!

As for the Millingford strike, I remember following the precession around the estate on my bike, along with many others, and was right outside the Walkers when the windows went through.
I wonder if the strikers ever got what they were fighting for?
Don’t think I was old enough to know what the hell was going on then!
I remember going behind Millingfords, near the brook that ran past it at weekends and sometimes finding large ball bearings!…Or ‘Casties’ as we called em!…I wonder why ‘Casties’?
Also was ‘Millys Brook’ actually Millingfords Brook shortened?

…It was like living in a soap opera on Downall Green, great characters and great stories to tell!