Wigan Album

John please keep the photo's coming there good having the buildings in the background make them better THANKS

Nice photos of the buses John, I noticed they all have their starting handles fixed, it was hard work pumping those around, not that I ever had to use them, but we had an old Thames trader at the Wagon works which had the starting handle permanently fixed on, and they could snatch your arm off if you weren't careful.

Was the pub The Cross Keys?

My Dad was a Motor Body Builder at the Depot in Melverley St and he used to tell me it was a nightmare trying to maintain the buses with starting handles. The drivers when returning the buses to the "shed" at night got too close to the bus in front and pierced a perfectly round hole in the rear panel of the bus in front. When I used to point these holes out to him when the buses were passing he would fly into a rage and say "Blinkin eck" or something similar because he would have to fit a new panel on that bus the next day........My Grand-dad was also the Chief Inspector and he used to turn purple....Happy Days

Is that "Blakey" walking past the bus?

Bob, A mystery solved, us kids always thought they were bullet holes

Sorry Little Laner, the bullet holes were in the side panel !....After passing down Little Lane....Naughty Bob!