Wigan Album

Mesnes Street before Smiths bookshop was built on the site of Baillies bakery shop. Crawfords wool shop must also have been demolished as I remember Prams and Toys as the last shop in the row. Back Mesnes Street became Mesnes Terrace and widened, and became a thoroughfare for traffic most notably when the one way system was introduced in the 1970s, buses coming into town from Crompton Street, turned right into Standishgate, left into Dicconson Street, into Mesnes Terrace, left into Mesnes Street then Marsden Street to get to the bus station.

I worked in Margarets dress shop in the late 1950s it was in Mesnes Street. I left for Australia in 1960 and it was still there then.

Can someone tell me when the Roy Turners pram/toy shop closed? I bought my silver cross carriage pram from a pram shop on Mesnes Street in 80’s would this be the shop?

Would you believe it!
Baillies shop along with Crawfords Wool Shop and Roy Turners Pram and Toy Shop on Mesnes Street.

Angela we had one too in 1979, classic design and craftsmanship.and coach work.
Why do you ask when it closed, are you looking to return it!!!!!!!! Says mme smiling.

How nice to see those shops instead of Vape shops and False Nails shops!

I used to go to Crawford’s Wool shop in the opening where Valmar Fabrics was and at the bottom of the cobbled row was Wallpaper Supplies. This was early seventies. Crawford’s must have moved there afterwards. I don’t remember the wool shop being in Mesnes St but remember the pram shop. Ithink it was Bretherton Row but not sure.