Wigan Album

Vicky..how lovely to see a photo of your Dad as a young 'un.

i used to mate about with a norman taylor did he have a sister christine and brother jeff

yes, watchalot my dads brother and sister are Jeff and Christine.

Wow! Normans hanging pretty cool there for the 50s. Nonchalantly posing with hands in pocket, cool jacket. Must have been the fashion icon of the school. And is that Jimmy Cheatham behind him. Could it be Joe Green with the glasses and behind him with the black curls, Rob Ockleshaw. Maybe that’s Freddy Laithwaite right up there on the right.
And I think I recall a lad with red wavy hair, Clifford Housely. Never know how I recall that name.
And no Cliff Higham wow! He was probably up to mischief in the girls yard anyway.

vicky ask your dad if he remembers me we was good mates for years

Roy, yes dad remembers you, said he hasnt see you for years

vicky give your dad my best wishes and have a good christmas

will do Roy, thanks and same to you

vicky have your dads name tattood on left hand when we was 16yrs old

owd on, just rang dad and he was laughing, said "aye it's true.Hes just been trying to remember all your brothers and sisters and can only remember Kenneth who he said was in his class

vicky tell him brothers are william brian kenneth and that tattoo is still there

vicky sisters are marion/rita/linda

your granma and grandad isreal was good people treated me as one of there own good memories in johnson st

Roy, will pass this info on to dad later.I never knew my Grandad Israel, he died 2 weeks before i was born in 1970, but only heard great things about him.My nan (lizzie) died 4 years ago aged 89.Amazing woman.

vicky sorry to hear that your nans brother lives round corner from me (joe thompson)

Think Joe is nans nephew, i know she had no brothers called Joe.

vicky i stand to be corrected you are right/must be the tablets i am on

Is the lad in the middle with the cap Alan Addlington? In front of him - almost burried - little Maurice Cheers.

that looks like cliff higham.....5 rows back,on left end,,

Naw Jas ,, thats not Clii. He's too handsome to be Cliff. That lloks a bit like Joe Hill to the left of Norman Taylor but its probably not.