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Are you sure it’s ger ger gg ger Granville Veebs ?

It looks more like mer mm mer mer Mick to me .
And is that ger gg ger Garry’s coal waggin parked up near the k k kerb ?

The bridge is still in situ.
My mam used to shop at Hollis’s grocers on the right. The buildings on the left are still there and a few on the right in the distance. Lidl is further down in the distance. The school with railings at the front would have still been there. I can’t remember the building with a shop window in the right hand corner. Does anybody know what was there?

You could be, right there Ozy MerMerMerMick would ride in the mmmiddle of the road ‘cos he thinks he owns it….I can see GggGarry would park perfectly and within the confines of the law. Perhaps he’s nipped in somebody’s house for a shshsherry.

Then when g ger ger Garry emerges from this persons p per per operty he’ll per per presumably be incapable of legally delivering his load to the sher sher sher , bugger !

The sher sher shivering residents of Wiggin .

I think you'll find that's a spud lorry parked outside a shop.
Coal sacks don't lie on the sides.
Good photo from timepix.

There was never any shops on that street Alan I should know my auntie lived there so I don’t know why a spud lorry would park there unless the driver lived there. . Yes they are good photos from Timepix but you do have to search for them before down loading and then uploading them on here. It does take a bit of time.

No way that’s a ser ser sp p p p sper sper spud waggin Alan.

That is almost certainly a coal wagon, coal sacks do fall over and sometimes we lay them down purposely to ease pick ups.

I would give a guess at it being a coal wagon.

When we got most of the coal bags delivered and less bags on the lorry, they would fall over, we used to sprag them together tight with the scales which were heavy. By law every coal round lorry had to carry scales, the weights and measures men could turn up anytime and have the coal bags weighed, they had to be exactly one hundredweight otherwise big trouble lay ahead. We were always spot on....honestly.

Garry, I posted mine before yours appeared. As you may know, there is quite a delay in posts appearing and this causes a little embarrassment sometimes due to repeating information or totally different information to the previous post.
Sorry for the view that I repeated your words.

No problem at all Ian.
You were right too.

Ian that happens all the time , no need to bother about it. I’m sure Garry won’t.

there was a potato merchant not far away the name was l and j wilcocks
in hardybutts

Veronica, regarding that shop to the right, on the link below to a photo of Scholes crossing and The Bluebell, scroll down and read the comment by David (Rev) (also pasted below ) he mentions Roy Topping who had what I'm presuming could be this shop.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=20219&gallery=scholes&offset=100

Comment by: Rev David Long on 15th March 2012 at 12:57
Old-time locals might be interested to know that I took the Funeral of Roy Topping a fortnight ago, and have just buried his ashes. He had a grocery store on Warrington Lane near Scholes crossing until it was demolished. Next door was Hollis' dairy, I believe.

I remember that comment Cyril. I only recall the grocers which was Hollis.’s but I do believe the owner was a milkman as well. It was on the left side of this photo just further down I think. Not near Scholes Crossings.

Sorry should have said the right side. Not the left

Looking down Warrington Lane, that would be Brookhouse Street branching to the left.
The railway bridge is the Central line long since demolished.
The Foundry Pub (The Smoothing Iron) was on the right, right at the bottom at the junction with Darlington Street.
Warrington Lane School was also on the right along with Garden Street and Douglas Street East.

Firstly! Thanks, Garry and Veronica for your kindness.
Colin, I thought exactly the same (...Brookhouse Street branching to the left). I walked up-and-down Brookhouse Street hundreds of times visiting my grandparents.
Those houses and, I assume, shop on the right where the man is had gone when I was a kid, but there were some houses (lower down, on the right) which were still standing and still occupied.
By the way, for you Cyril, there were some more public toilets lower down on the right and before you reached Pepper Mill.
Just a little added information for Wiganers who are interested in art or famous local people, there was a shoe shop on the corner of Brookhouse Street (Darlington Street East end) and it was owned by Gordon Isherwood: James Lawrence Isherwood's brother.