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Good to see the shop building is still there. Not much of the architecture has changed either...the shutters along the side are a sign of the times we live in. I expect the area behind the shop was living accommodation for the family.
PS Irene I agree, wouldn't it be good to take a step back in time & have a peek round the door. I used to love going into my Auntie Annie's shop in Billinge Rd.

Agreed, Helen. I have a "thing" about old packaging techniques.....how they fashioned bags out of paper and boxes out of cardboard before everything was plastic and pre-packed. I have strings of paper bags hanging in my kitchen; they are my childhood and I just can't resist them!

That building (I think) was one time Galloways bakers, 1970-80s maybe.

Spot on Alan, it was also called The Pie Shop (they did beltin Hotpots) before Galloways.

What a belter!!

Great stuff. I do like a good 'before & after' pic.

The pie shop was owned by galloways.The address given as 215 Ormskirk Road.They changed the shop name to Galloways.This was the first shop they opened.

Was Plessey's (AT&E Works) at the back of this building?

Ian can you e.mail me please tried emailng you but it seems I have an old e.mail address?

this was my grans shop you can see her at the side window my father is standing at the front i lived next door since 1946 with my brother ADRIAN 1948. who sadly has just died on 21.1.2015 , till 1971. it was glovers fishing tackle from 1961 till 1977

In the early 70s I worked on this shop it became the first gallojways pie shop I think she was the daughter of George Bailey caterers of menses street wigan

Name Ada L
Gender Female
Marital Status Married
Birth Date 3 Mar 1891
Residence Date 1939
Address 215a Ormskirk Road
Residence Place Wigan, Lancashire, England
Occupation Grocery Assistant Household Members (Name) Gender Birth Year
Wm Mason Male 1887 Corporation Bus Driver
Ada L Female 1891 Grocery Assistant
Humphry A Glover Male 1916 Grocery Gen Store Manager
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Hi Humphry, you probably don't remember me, I was a little younger than you. I remember being with you at the back of your dad's fishing tackle shop watching you do your weight training. So sorry to hear of Adrian's passing.