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Do you remember the church that was destroyed to build Tesco?

Am I right in thinking there was also a church on the opposite side of the road, the TSB moved to the site in the late 60s?

No, sadly I don't, but I rememeber that Tesco Store.It was in the days of Green Shield Stamps!

Correct D it was King Street Baptist Church facing the Crawford rooms dance hall

Was it called Lennons before it was Tesco

Lennons was further down king st.It was next to Brocol house.I worked at lennons in the early 70s.It is now a car park.

Lennons was opposite the old town hall and later became Kwiksave before this it was probably wigan Hippodrome

Lennons was down near the dole office.

The TSB ended up as the Poll Tax ofice, now a bar.
Lennons was where Brocol House is now

Mick... I think Lennons was over the road, where the old Hippodrome used to be. In fact, some of the store rooms where the original theater building.

My mother used to work at that Tesco, it was there she met and became friends with 'Big Amy'... Amy used to deal with shop-lifters.

Mick - Lennons was on the opposite side of King St, next to Brocol House, and facing Rodney St.

Mick,I think Lennons was on the other side of the road,further down .I remember the Court dancehall,used to go there on Sunday afternoons to the coffee club and dance to Hermans Hermits,Reverend Black and the rocking vicars etc.

Don't talk to me about Tesco...the town where I live has been fighting to keep Tesco out for more than 10yrs....they just don't give up & have now won the war on a single council vote...this is only a small town & Tesco will have an detrimental effect on the existing shops. They have already knocked down & relaced elsewhere the fire ststion, the community centre is the next on their hit list. They are a greedy company that will have their name emblazoned anywhere, at any cost, they don't really care about anything else...cheap food? There is no such thing as cheap food, you pay for it one way ..or another. There, thats me had my say !!

Lennons stood where the Hippodrome used to be I remember shopping in this Tesco it had a "moving staircase" on the left as you went in

Mick, I think Lennon's supermarket was on the other side of the road near to the old TSB Bank where I worked for many years. They sold lovely hot pots with a crust which I regularly had for my lunch.

Lennon's was on the opposite side further down. Where the car park is next door to Brocul House

Not King Streets greatest era

Lennons was on the opposite side where the old Hippodrome was. The church on the Tesco site was a methodist and it had a school room behind. When I was at the Tech we sat exams in it

Green Shield Stamps spring to mind.

Mick...I am almost sure Lennons was on the site of the Hippodrome before becoming Kwik Save.

There was a methodist church opposite later became bank, Tesco was Lennons previously, Later Lennon started Pier night club,

Lennon's was on the site of the old Hippodrome, part of the Hippodrome building was incorporated into it, Kwik Save had the shop in the late 80s and it was pulled down about 10 years ago and is now a car park.

didnt it use to be called Hanburys before it was Tesco? Anyhow i remember going in as a child and riding on the penny slot ride in the doorway if mum had the money spare.
them was the days.

if i remember correctly it was Diddy David Hamilton that opened Tesco.

Dennis, my mum also worked there and I had a Saturday job there as well. What was your mums name? I may have known her.

This photo already appears as no:14940

Dave, my mothers name is Margaret Miller, she would have worked there in the late 60s, early 70s.

Thank you Helen. Couldnt agree more!!!! What about the Wigan fans who requested their ashes be scattered at the ground? Tescos put the statue of a rugby ball there. They will agree to anything to get yet another piece of Wigan land. They're everywhere!! Its obscene!!! What next? School fields? Hospital car parks? There'll be a Tesco replacing the WI shop in hospitals next, you just wait and see if I'm right. You cant move for'em! Overpriced, overadvertised, understaffed by people who think nothing of discussing between themselves what they did last night, whilst you're stood there like a lemon. I havent shopped there now for nearly two years and neither will I. Enoughs enough. No more Tescos. We're ovrerrun!!

I remember shopping in that Tesco shop in 1972 (first year that i went to Spain for a hol )and befor it DID used to be a church

What year did tesco go in king street

Not sure when this picture was taken but those two building with the Court Cinema Booking Office and the Court Hall are in a much better condition today, regardless of their somewhat dubious purpose!

I put this comment up following Veronica's other picture. I have sent a present day picture to Ron hoping he will put this up as a comparison the these two pictures. There is quite a contrast.
The Tesco Cube is thankfully long gone.

I have sent a Present Day picture of the same scene to Brian, hopefully this will pop up on PAD at some time.