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NCB Wigan Area Junior Trainees.

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Wigan Area Trainees
Wigan Area Trainees
Photo: Evelyn Armstrong
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Item #: 35574
15 year old NCB trainees , after a game of football in their lunchtime , at the training centre. That is my late husband Don ….the tall boy at the back…who later on became an electrician at Parsonage Colliery in Leigh for 40 years .

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 21st January 2025 at 10:18

What a pleasant-looking bunch of lads, and they probably went straight from the world of school to the world of work and just accepted that that was what was expected of them. It was another world back then. Don was certainly a handsome young man, Evelyn!

Comment by: Evelyn Armstrong on 21st January 2025 at 10:29

The photo was taken in 1952

Comment by: Evelyn Armstrong on 21st January 2025 at 12:26

Thanks Irene he was even though I say so myself . You very well know he was my soulmate, my rock , my world.xx

Comment by: Big Harold on 21st January 2025 at 14:10

Lunchtime Irene Lunchtime, you missed that.

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 21st January 2025 at 16:57

So I did, Harold!

Comment by: Dave johnson on 23rd January 2025 at 10:58

You couldn't believe kids of that age would be going out with knives and killing other kids, as they are now. The world as certainly changed, but not for the better!

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