Wigan Album

A wonderful set of photos the school children will be in their 60’s now. An ordinary day to them coming home from school but how great to recognise themselves now.

Brilliant photo! I love the old "fish and chips" sign, which was so familiar in terraced rows in the 1960s, (I know the photo is 1972). When we are at our caravan, we often have a ride from Skipton to Keighley on the bus, and we pass through a village where there is still an old sign like that outside the chippy, (although they use the word "fisheries" in Yorkshire, rather than "fish and chips"), but it is so evocative of my childhood that I always feel like getting off the bus, going in for some chips, and waiting for the next bus! I doubt they'd cost sixpence and be wrapped in newspaper, though!

That’s a cracking photo Frank.
My grandma lived next door down from Doris Eckersley’s Chippie and that’s where I was born.
The first house on the left was Nellie Orrell’s shop. Nellie sold everything from the proverbial pin to the proverbial battleship.
Brings back a lot of memories, most of them happy.

Austin A40, Ford Zodiac, Mini van and Vauxhall Viva. School kids going home and old folk yapping.

Scot Lane Aspull, the Wigan corporation trams used to terminate here until they finished in the 1930s. The car is a little Austin A30 new in the early 1950s, very old even in 1972 when this photograph was taken, distinguished as an A30 by the semicircular rear window, and not a later A35 that has the full rear window. Further down looks like a square tank Mk4 Ford Zephyr or a Zodiac if hit has more chrome. Could possibly be a Vauxhall Victor FD. Incidentally in 1972 there was School's out for summer song by Alice Cooper who is a man not a woman.

Kids outside Doris Eckersley's chippy. The barbers shop was run by Jim ( I never new his surname) who used to cut my hair and gave my son Eddie his very first haircut. I can also see across the road an estate agent's sign which was my late brothers business, 'Joynt Agents'.

The 2 ladies on the doorstep are Flo Seddon (my grandmother who's face you can see) and Mrs. Wilkinson (I think) who lived next to the alley that led to the back of the houses. Just up from these houses was a newsagents run by Mrs. Spence(?)

Mike, I have only just seen your comment. Believe it or not I have been trying to remember your grandmother’s name ever since Frank posted the photo. I remember her face but, for the life of me I couldn’t remember her name. Turns out it was the same as mine!!!
Did your grandad deliver the milk at one time?

Dennis,
My dad (Joe Seddon) used to deliver milk, I've got an old photo of him somewhere showing him with the horse & cart he used. We lived next to my grandmother up until 1966.