Wigan Album
Standishgate
18 Comments
Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 23473
This is a very unusual view, have never seen it before.
Shouldn't that be Mesnes Street ? The old Debs strode would be on the left, looking up towards WH Smiths
Yep should be Mesnes Street only noticed what I had written after I had posted the photo.
Great picture - how many more are out there that people could share. I agree with Dave C.
There's always a copper on these great old photos.Cheers Ron.
It appears likely that the portly bobby has had a few jars, in his time, in the Park Hotel, around the corner,or some other nearby hostelry.
There was a pub 'THE THREE CROWNS' just on the right maybe he just nipped in there for a quick pint<g>
I think the imposing looking building with columns and arched windows was the original Pendlebury's shop, the shop on the extreme left of the picture may have been Winstanleys Jewellers & Watchmakers which was in the vicinity about this time.
Ron. Over fifty four years ago, when I was first in the Wigan Police, our watering hole, for weekly social gatherings was around the corner, in Standishgate, the White Horse. In those days we received our weekly pay in cash. Wage was only just over £7-oo a week,still a pint of Almonds bitter was only in the region of a bob, and it was well worth it. That exquisite nutty taste. Hmmmm,lovely. Is the White Horse still there?.
Albert the WHITE HORSE is still there i remember going in early 70s but is called HARTLEYS now or everyone calls it JAMPOT
The White Horse building is still there, but renamed Hartley's Bar.
Hartleys Bar called jampot wiggin humour luv it any more nick names for pubs ??????????
My grandmothers brother Joseph Hodkinson had a clock & watch shop at 52 Standishgate between 1910 & 1917 would that be the shop halfway up on the righthand side with the clock showing ?
Norman. Remember the "Dust Hole" in Scholes. I believe it's correct name was the"Rose & Crown". Someone will put me right, if I'm wrong.
Ken - if the numbering sequence is still the same, your great uncle's shop would have been on the other side of the Mesnes St junction from this picture, on the stretch of Standishgate between there and Dicconson St.
Albert i recall a pub down froglane henhole can't remember proper name wonder if thats still there
Norman the 'henhole' is the Bird i'th Hand on Gidlow Lane. I think a fairly recent posting on here said it had reopened again.
Th' 'en'ole. (bird i'th'hand) is still there in Gidlow Lane ;o)