Wigan Album

I used to go to the youth club there.

The demolished building which stood on the left of the photograph was the The Windmill Public House known as The Top Long Pull

Used to have my driving lessons round all these Streets around 1961/62 came from Blackrod took my test in Wigan test centre Diccinson Terr I think if my memory has not let me down.

MY AUNT LIVED THREE OR FOUR DOORS DOWN FROM THE CHURCH LOVELY TO SEE THIS OLD PIC

That street had character - but then so did many others in Wigan that have been ruined by planners who thought they knew best. They didn't.

I believe the building (with the pointed apex) almost opposite the Independent Methodist Church was a Welsh Baptist Church which several of the many Welsh Wigan RL players used to attend before the start of WW2.

I remember there being a shoe repair shop on the left-hand side - just beyond the wall with "Independent Methodist Church" written on it - and it belonged to someone called Isherwood who, I think, was the father of the well known Wigan artist, Lawrence Isherwood.

The Regent public house was further down, on the right hand side. I seem to recollect Dr Hoey's surgery was somewhere in that vicinity. He was the police surgeon.

I'm not sure, but I think the Regent was Johnny Stopford's first pub.

IF my memory serves me right at the back of these houses on the left where my aunt lived it was a shared cobbled square with a entry leading onto Greenough st

IF my memory serves me right at the back of these houses on the left where my aunt lived it was a shared cobbled square with a entry leading onto Greenough st

To the rear of the houses on the left was Windmill Street (Leading up to Scholes from Mount Street).

2 doors down past the shop on the right hand side was Dr Johnsons surgery .

You can see the front of D.H &N Tyldesley plumbers shop were i served my apprenticeship on this picture happy memories.

We lived in a flat in Dr. Johnsons surgery near the shop on the right in 1949- 1951, and walked down to ST. Marys school.