Wigan Album
York St Ince
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Photo: E J Hall
Item #: 25620
If anyone recognises anyone else, I'd love to know.
What a great photo, folk with nowt but always a smile, God bless them. Thanks for sharing.
Agreed, Joseph, and Happy Birthday for tomorrow!
Thanks. Our Irene, nice of you to remember.
R josie lived in those houses
Gerry, have you any idea what numbers the houses shown on the left would have been?
How can anyone remember anyone here from the 1920s ??
Because someone may have a copy of this in their home which belonged to a late relative who may be on the photo. I have a photo of similar age of a charabanc trip with my grandma on it. The photographer would take a photo and people could place orders for a copy.
A few grubby faced urchins on the front row there, and when was the last time you saw a baby wrapped in a shawl in its mothers arms, its a long time since I saw one, the shawl was the do it all for all mothers at one time.
Aitch, I Was born in 1952 and I was carried in a shawl; I never had a pram. I know you mated with our Colin when you were young; he was 12 when I was born and my other brother was 19! My Mam had carried them in a shawl in the 1930s and 194os, as was the way children were carried then, and so she did the same with me. I still have the shawl I was carried in, 62 years on!
i was born in york st in 1950 i have never seen any photos of the actual st x
im wondering if its out side minnies shop that was there when i was little and the houses on the left are frances st,it might not have been a shop then ?
or it also looks like it could be at the bottom of york st actually in frances st as there was a barracks there with big doors on and looking closly it looks like it could be the barracks they might have used it then for theire meetings , that would make the houses on the left york st
The mission was in Francis Street at the top of Belle Green Lane.
York Street is the street on the left of the picture.
My cousin Joyce Taylor is sat on the officer on the left of the picture's knee,
Her sister Evelin is just behind, slightly to the left. Their mother Lena Taylor is slightly above them to their right, holding the melodium.
The year would be 1930.