Wigan Album

The pawn shop on the corner was Lythgoe's, (which everyone pronounced "Lygo's). I don't recall The Maypole Shop but this photo was taken in 1951, the year before I was born, so it was probably there during a part of the 1950s....I just don't remember it. I remember Whalley's Temperance Bar, Franca's Chemists and Ron Leigh's Electrical Shop. There was also a bank and Melling's Shoe Shop along that row.

Remember it well.X

The pawn shop, Lythgoe's, is in the building called Ince House, the Post Office stands there now.

Imagine leaving all that stuff outside the shop unattended these days!

I can remember Williams Deacons Bank, T. Melling the Butcher, Green's and on the corner Mace the general store.

Rich, you wouldn't be walking off with those wooden ladders, they'll weigh a ton.

Garry the memories flood back, I remember the Mace on the corner with humphes Street.
The advertising was "remember the MACE like mine"

Everything would be tied down nowadays. It was the same in Scholes at Adam’s Hardware shop and Sherrington’s on Scholefield Lane.