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The white building was Baileys pie shop.

The building on Mesnes Street is probably Bailey's Scotch Bakery.

I stand corrected, Mesnes Street it is. Thank you.

Baileys !! Ah the memories of their pies. All were good but after 48 years away from Wigan U can still recollect the taste of their potato pies - not to be confused with the meat and potato pies, which were also very good, but the potato pies were magnificent. Such a simple idea but so well done.

Oh Carolaen, I am right with you there, those potato pies were heaven. We used to head to Baileys for them after shopping & then get the bus to Cherry Gardens near where my grandparents lived & there we would all squash around the kitchen table eating those pies !

There was a cafe upstairs too.

Restaurant upstairs in Bailies did a "Business Man's Lunch" 3 course for 3/6 Went there a couple of times when I was at the TLS. Thought we were the BEES KNEES<g>

Isn't Bailey's pie shop on the site of Smith's bookshop because it was before I was born. Trevor Smith's shop opened in 1972 and extended in 1986. British Heart Foundation charity shop opened about a decade ago.

The little girl looks like she has lost a quid and found a shilling !! At the rear of Baileys Pie Shop was a piece of
open land. In the mid 1960s, Robert Baillie Transport from
Portsmouth would arrive with a big artic lorry, loaded with
tomatoes from Guernsey, and be met by smaller lorries from
local wholesalers, Owen Owen, Louis Reece, Conroy Bros, and
Peter Conroy, and the complete load of about 2000 trays of
tomatoes would be transhipped by hand and taken to their
stalls in Wigan Market Hall. In the late 1960s, the new
wholesale fruit & vegetable market opened at Worthington Way
Notice the 2 different spellings of Bailey & Baillie.

Mr X, yes, Bailey's was in the vicinity of Smith's Bookshop. Bailey's closed about 1971, the building was demolished and a new road made through to what was Dicconson Street at the time and later absorbed into the ring road. The multi storey car park was built in the 1980's and most of the "new" road disappeared under that.

The little girl is so cute- I bet she grew up to 'call a spade a spade' and doesn't stand any nonsense....

Veronica, you're not wrong there. My maternal side of the family are particularly good at calling spades, spades and my niece grew up into a beautiful young woman, married and living near Edinburgh these days.

Well I hope she comes back occasionally to visit Keith. The photo could have been taken recently it's so clear- and your girlfriend/wife is very attractive as well - makes me wish I was young again!

Looks like she's holding one of the old 'Picnic' chocolate bars.
If she can still give looks like that now shes grown up, I wouldn't like to go home to her with a pound short in my wage packet!