Wigan Album
Plessey, Pioneer Works, Union Bridge & Lamberhead
8 CommentsPhoto: STEPHEN HUGHES
Item #: 5552
I don't think this is Plesseys or ATE (as it was known before). The company didn't provide overalls. I think this is taken outside a factory on Lamberhead Industrial Estate. I remember the small glass windows in the entrance. I think? it was one of the factories around what was Industrial Reels. In fact I think Industrial Reels entrance was similar. There was about 4 or 5 units with the same frontage. If I remember correctly? there was a chemical company, Blackburn and Oliver, opposite the Industrial Reels factory. That had the same entrance.
Was your mother related to Tommy Wilkes from Goose Green ?
yes she was related to a tommy wilkes from little lane
are you the hughes family from boswell place stephen with a sister called maureen
was tommy wilkes a corporation gardener on worsley mesnes in the sixtes
sorry no we never lived in boswel we lived in kingsley ave and i dont have a sister called maureen
Tommy Wilkes was married to my fathers sister Mary Ashall of Little Lane. How was your mother related to Tommy.