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Parson's Walk
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It has to be Parson’s Walk surely ?
At first glance I thought it may have been Bridgeman Terrace , but it certainly ain’t Lessingham Avenue .
I’m merely highlighting the fact that brilliant site such as it is , in common with everything else and everyone else on this planet , … Timepix isn’t 100 % infallible .
I agree that that is Parson's Walk. That's the Park over the hedge on the left. My granddaughter attended Nursery along there as a small child around 2009-2011 before she started school. (I think it is just out of sight on the photo but is still "Parson's Walk Nursery" today). Obviously it would have been a private house when the photo was taken in the 1950s. I love the gas-lamp!
One of the many ‘well to do’ areas of Wigan that I remember in the 50’s. Is it still the same I wonder.
There was a great many beautiful buildings at one time.
My Mam and her three siblings lost their mum when they were quite young,. their mum was only thirty something so my Mam being the eldest had to find work..her first place of work was one of these houses but I've forgotten which one,then from there she went for more money at a Doctors which was the building ... the last time I looked was a funeral home facing my old Doctors off Dickinson st.. his wife was a professor..and both their children were deaf,so my Mam learned to do sign language..in the meantime she met my Dad,they got married then found out she was pregnant with me..the children's mum told her that if she would stay she herself would clean the windows but my Dad said she had to leave...she even had to take the children through the park three days a week..what a place to work eh !
I remember Mrs.Cassinelli (Rita's mother) living in one of these houses in Parsons Walk.She used to get a taxi to take her to the cafe in Mesnes Park across the road which she ran in the 1940/50's
What a lovely story Maureen,your Mam was obviously very valued by the family of the doctor ! X
Two other residents there Martin Ryan and his wife and further along ' paddy' Gore Latin master at WGS. nearer to the railway bridge I think Park Road lived a classmate at a house with the nameplate SPIRELLA or so we thought but ladies of a certain maturity will know different
Paddy Gore. Now that was an arrogant bar steward.
Thank you Elizabeth...I know she loved working there.
Certainly Parsons Walk
In my day (before 1951),Mrs Leyalnd llived in the first house after the entrance to the Cricketr Club and in that row, not only Paddy Gore,but Harold Bullough the solicitor and McKellen the Borough
engineerpnarents of Ian the boy who has become famous for something