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Wigan Grammar School 1920's
Wigan Grammar School 1920's
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 26273
Postcard showing the 'old' Wigan Grammar School as it was in the 1920s

Comment by: winder on 26th March 2015 at 18:47

The two gateposts are still there.

Comment by: AB on 27th March 2015 at 09:35

Ronnie Hart related that He and his twin brother Oliver attended this school and as 13 year old boys in 1926 and during the 1926 general strike with no buses available were sent to school in a pony cart and having left the pony tethered to a drainpipe and due to it's " Droppings" were censured by the headmaster and sent home until the strike was over

Comment by: Anne Rose nee Crowther on 27th March 2015 at 19:42

Was Oliver Hart the father of Virginia Hart friend of Susan Bridge of WGHS.?

Comment by: AB on 28th March 2015 at 14:52

Both Oliver and Ronnie became Speedway Riders.. Oliver was World Champion at one time

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