Wigan Album

Good old days when you could take a picture in the market hall.
I was taking a snap in the new market recently when I was swooped on by a Shemonster stall holder from Hades who told me it was illegal to take pictures in there.
Oh for the days when such creatures didn't exist.

i remember this stall very well. we use to call it the blind stall because the blind made the wicker baskets.oh to have the old market back with its smells and friendly stall holders.

I still use today some coat hangers with knitted covers that came from "the blind stall".

I have a lovely old basket (though not from here) that I use every day for my shopping, and I often get comments on it.

Oh how I wanted a cookery basket from this stall, sadly my mum couldn't afford one,

Still use my cookery basket today (it's had a new handle fitted). One of the stallholders on Chorley market started selling baskets after seeing me keep walking past with mine and he did a roaring trade with the schoolgirls.

This was my Nan's Stall. Her name was Edith Walsh. We were in the corner opposite Forshaws toys. Next to us was a pet stall, then Hursts Records one way. The other way was a chiropodist and then Mrs Baileys pot stall right in the corner. We had a double stall with wool in one and baskets in the other. Nan also had a stall in the new market until she retired. I was very pleasantly surprised to see her on here.