Wigan Album

I was born in the house on the left (with thebricked-up window) in 1932. And lived across the road at the Rectory Lodge for many years.

I wondered what numbers on Frog Lane the photo shows. My great grandfather lived at number 94 at the 1881 census. The house has now gone - is it in the photo by any chance?

Hi Phillip been doing a little investigation here: my Nan lived at 110 which was the 2nd house after Prescott St and my Aunty lived next door 108 which was on the corner. Counting back the houses your Grandfather's seems to be right up against the bridge where - in my mothers days in the 1920's and onward there was a Men's Urinal!!! You can see the houses clearly on the Wigan (west) map from 1907

Ian,

Many thanks for you information. You have been most helpful. I will think of my Grandfather in a new way!

Per the 1861 census, my GGG grandmother, Alice Spencer Freeman Belshaw, and her son Charles, my GG grandfather, lived at No. 2 Frogs Lane. Does anyone have any idea which end of the lane No. 2 would be? Or even if No. 2 is in this photo. And thanks for sharing these photos.

Re no2, FROG LANE. The nearest house, with bricked up window, is actually in Hallgate,(the street off to the left)as its front door doesn't appear to be on Frog Lane, which starts from this junction. Therefore, no 2 will be the 1st house on the left, just after the man walking past the houses. Can't see this being the actual house you are looking for, as these houses look a little too modern for 1861, but this would be the location you are looking for

Mine were in No 118.A
lot different to Shetland!

the man walking down frog lane on the left was Robert aspinall from number 6 Beresford street his daughter is marie ann aspinall who became Cadman my first wife the man walking across the road is a teacher from the deanery high school I can not put a name to him but I remember him

My old house is right in the centre of this photo,number 14.
a lovely old lady Mrs orgil lived at 16 frog lane and had lived there all her life ,sadly her husband was killed in ww1

I was in Wigan Parish Church choir the same time as you Cyril, I was born in Glebe End st.

Does anyone remember the sewing factory at the end of the street

Nice picture.
All those properties all the way back to Richmond Street which had houses on both sides now gone to create mainly a car park!,
There was a shop on the left hand side as you walked down Richmond Street, I can't remember the name of the lady who owned it but it's on the tip of my tongue.

Dale Trowkoski - no Orgil is recorded on local memorials - however, Wigan Archives has a record for a Johnnie Orgill who was a trainer of trotting horses who went out to Germany before the Great War started to work at a stables over there. When war broke out he was eventually rounded up and interred in Germany. He was eventually released and sent home as a non-combatant judged too old to fight in 1916. His address is given as 84 Woodhouse Lane - and he appeared on St Andrew's War List in 1915 as being in the Veterinary Corps - for which there's no evidence in the stuff in the Archives. I don't know when you knew old Mrs Orgil, but it looks as if the tale got embellished over the years - unless she was one of the many war widows who remarried, and Orgil was the name of her second husband.