Wigan Album

Yes that's the Fox and Goose pub

Yes that's the Fox and Goose pub

Great set of bus pictures Norman, thanks for putting them on.

Definitely Wigan Lane.

Vauxhall Cresta in the background!

Thanks for confirming that I did inf act take this picture on Wigan Lane. Appreciated.

maybe a daft question but is the 1 d on the bus how much it was or somthing else

Sorry Norman but your wrong with the date. Seeing this photo reminds me of the time I worked at Timberlakes in Library as a car salesman, we sold a red mini automatic one of the first mini automatics to be produced. The female buyer when she came to collect it refused to take it so I ended up with it as a demonstration car, the reason she refused it the registration plate was EEK 13F brilliant little car the year was 1967

Sorry, David Thompson, but I don't follow your logic about the date of the photo being wrong. If the bus, has a 1967 registration no. there is no reason it would not still be around in the early seventies. Or, am I missing something?

Sorry DerekB my mistake I was assuming it was a photo of a new vehicle something to do with old age I guess

this is how it looked in 1981 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeupstairs/3155766986/in/photostream/

Thaks David for the acknowledgement, I was beginning to wonder if I was losing the plot!

I wonder if that Cresta shown in the photo was mine? (Its the correct colour and model)
I'd very often be found parked outside the car accessory shop buying various bits. Not that the Cresta was unreliable, I used to like "customising' it!

The Vauxhall Cresta model you had Bill was a lovely car. In the early 70s I was a young(ish) bloke and had a Victor VX4/90 and I remember envying like hell an older workmate who had the same model Cresta as you in white. Today's cars are leagues ahead of those cars in terms of refinement, performance and reliability, but those 70s cars had some character, you could tell one make apart from another without looking at the badge and didn't feel that you were riding around in a soulless lump of metal. Even dimwits like me when it came to mechanics could do basics under the bonnet - now if my Omega acts up, I lift the bonnet (knowing full well that I am only going through the motions), shake my head, close the bonnet and go and ring the garage.

My cresta may have looked good and it ran great...under the skin though it wasn't what it appeared. I later discovered it was an insurance write-off and had more body filler in it than steel! Mind you it didn't cost so much to buy and it was mechanically sound. It was an automatic, great fun to drive and could do well over the ton.

The 1D was the school bus to/from the Girl's High School (later Whitley High School) on Whitley Crescent. This would have travelled up to the school via Gidlow Lane and Beech Hill so this must be it running empty back into Wigan. Chances are the driver has stopped so he can nip into Davies' newsagents which was across the road. The Cresta is outside Cresta which was the car accessory shop on Wigan Lane!!

my dad had fe vx 490 sek 990n supplied new by mabs cross motors, great car, quick too!