Wigan Album

This is my Grand dad Grandma and there kids upuntill then Mary at the back Billy front left then left to right Jack Albert and Bob at the end Jack Bill and Albert went on to play RFL for Wigan Albert went on to play for Swinton

Great to see this photo. My father played alongside Billy and Jack Blan in the same Wigan team, sadly dad died just a matter of months ago aged 93, a short while after Billy Blan himself passed away.

WAW!! blast from the past,great pic, I didn,t know Kath was that old! spittin image,I,ll show Sue and tell the others I dont think they ever seen this pic before oh an how you doin jem? not seen you for ages I used to see Kath alot when she lived up Wigan Lane, guess where ? you got it pub, millstone. anyway, good to see the photo,thanks for sharin, catchya, cliff

My Uncle Albert (the baby in this photo)turned 80 year's young in January 2010 so the photo is 1930 plus the month's he is in photo.

I have left a comment on another photo on here i was born in longshoot and although we moved before i was two i remember it . My mum and dad talked often about Billy Blan and his family with fondness. Our surname was Sweeney and we lived in the house with the stone steps