Wigan Album

Broken windows aside, a much prettier scene than that street presents today.

j j..oh so very true.

I a few times in the early sixties I attended Mass at St Joseph’s, before St Jude’s was completed at Goose Green, otherwise the Mass was in, as I remember it, a large wooded building, at the bottom of St Paul’s Avenue, where St Jude’s is now situated. If I remember correctly Father Tobin was the Parish Priest, at St Joseph’s, I could be wrong.

The fashions of the two ladies in this photo does support the theory this was the early 70s. I get the impression the housing along Caroline Street at this time was lying derelict and the houses are awaiting demolishion. I was born in the late 70s and as far back as I remember the Caroline Street area has never been a 'residential' part of town.

In the early fifties I went to a wedding reception, in the Vine Inn, after the wedding of one of my mates. He married a young lady from Wallgate, Agnes Sharkey, she had a sister Veronica.

Lived in Caroline st when I was a child in the 50 s lovely st then lovely people happy days

My grandma grandad lived here my dad was from this street george brown grandma Miley and grandad Jack brown does anybody remember them think dad had some more relatives in same street