Wigan Album

Not quite as I remember it!---It was winter,the trees were,of course,leafless and I was delivering Christmas mail!

The good old days, many happy memories.

Norley kids: salt of the earth. I grew up with them. Happy days at Robert Lewis: 1958-1963. Then we all transferred to Pem Primary. I hardly spent time there through serious illness, but memories of Mr Martin in Junior Four. A real gent and a great teacher.

my memories of norley are very bitter/sweet.

It must be said it looks better then than it does now, sadly.

In the 50,s and 60,s Norley was brill I remember catching one of the first buses. We got on near where the Norley pub was which was the original terminus and got off at the Halfway House then walked back.Spent many happy times walking down to the Sportsmans on a Thursday and Sunday from Saddleback Road in my later years.

Full of low life's these days

The block of houses to the left of the pic ..... didn´t the right side house get knocked down , maybe on a mine shaft ?
I think a lad called David Darbyshire lived there .
Just off pic to the right were the Dawbers .

My grandparents lived at 16 Troutbeck Rise in the 60's and 70's - many very happy memories there!

GEORGE O,
Whatever happened to Ipso Facto and the Sportsmen

Robins I remember them but gosh it,s a long long time ago.

From the mid nineties I worked for the Wigan branch of a National charity supporting people who had been victims of crime. I always remember speaking to an elderly man on Norley Hall who had been a burglary victim (unfortunately an all too common occurrence at the time) whose comment was " A've lived in this 'ere house since it were new - they were feighting to gerr on this estate then an they're feighting to gerr off it now"

my grandparents lived at number 27 (jack and Annie dawber)sadly missed.

My brother Simon and myself went to Pem primary 1970/75.Our nan and grandad lived at no 27(Annie and Jack Dawber) and spent many happy hours playing out on the grass in front of their house,shown in the photo.Fond memories of going down the shops with nan everyday to Gladys shop.Simon and i loved Mrs Parringtons school dinners,and some teachers i remember are Mrs Jones,Mrs Blinston,Mr williams,Mr Brown,Mrs millard and Mrs Mills.Mrs Causey with the bright orandge hair was one of the dinner ladies.Grandad would cut all the mens and boys hair because he had electric clippers.Happy memories.

Lived at 1, Shop Gate. Just 3 houses Between City Rd. and Saddleback Rd. We moved into a brand new house with a front and back yard. We thought we were doing great. Good memories of growing up on Norley Hall.

I lived in 35 Lamberhurst road in summer of 76.I could tell few stories

Anyone remember me.1976

Who remembers Kath Spellman norley hall

I played drums in a band called waves who played in the norley hall hotel in1968/9if anyone knows the names or whereabouts of the other two guys please let me know

I lived in Hodder Close, so was on the border of Norley and Worsley Hall. Both deprived areas. Almost everyone was poor, but neighbours were still close back then (born 1957 in Wallgate & moved to Hodder as a baby). Neighbours watched out for each other's kids...if you were caught naughty, they'd say..."naw then dusta want me fot chastise thi or shalt I tell thi mam n Dad?" Ya parents still knew cos they'd seeya donkey brandin't neighbours step or washin their winders etc.. They wud still feed ya if hungry or dust yer down if ya fell... now peoples too fricky to go nr other's kids. I read ages back a toddler got out, was seen by 2 diff adults who were too worried about goin nr it....it were found dead in neighbours pond sum time later. Times gone by weren't perfect but community spirit int same....