Wigan Album
Scholes
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Photo: Brian Laithwaite
Item #: 25253
What was the shop that has the "Sale" posters in the window? Some would call these slums, and maybe they were, but I find it heartbreaking that these lovely, (to my eyes, anyway), buildings have gone. I'm so glad someone took a photo for posterity.
The Horseshoe Hotel was on left just out of view. I think there was a pop merchants (Bartons) on same row & a jewellers. Does anyone remember these?
You are so right Irene..
the shop that as the sale sign was my wifes grandma kelly cafe
Davenport's watch and clock repairs was on the left till the mid 80s when these buildings were demolished. The business then moved to King Street till the owners retired in the 1990s, Davenport's had a shop in Wigan in the 1800s.
Owd Viewer the jewellers you mention was Davenports. The pop bottlers was Palatines .
I am sure that it was Palatine Pop Works on the left owned by a gentleman called Bob Warburton who was a magistrate and I took the Police Oath of office in front of him in his office on the 1st July 1968. How times have changed.
the first shop was bradshaws papershop
From the scene under the bridge, I see, by the time this photograph was taken, the pub, The Shovel,and Broom, had already been demolished.
Didn't there used to be well somewhere just under that bridge,
Boyswell House got it's name from there.
the boyswell was near the top of lime st near the workingmans club
maureen the well you mean will be the harrogate well at the side of the pepper mill
Boyswell house is at the Junction of scholes and Greenough Street.It got it's name from Boyswell lane near there.
Tony K..are you Tony Keeley by any chance.
maureen you almost right
If you are,I lived next door but one to you.
Can anyone else remember that Millgate went up as far as the crossroads and at the other side it was Scholes. On Friday's I used to wait on the curved step of the Blue Bell and wait for dad coming up the hill home from work. He always called in Bradshaw's for our Friday comics. I'm sure the Millgate street sign was on the wall of Calland's shop.