Wigan Album

this is the place where our noses pressed against the windows wishin for what we wanted for christmas.
really nice family the watsons,knew them well.

exccelent picture,have you any more from the same area about the same same era

Hi Kevin. I'd like to see more photos of the Chapel Lane area, any era. I had relatives who lived in Bradford Street and Johnsons Terrace.

Been in there for a few puncture outfits I can tell you !!!

I was born just this side of the old iron Chapel Lane bridge and so knew the shop very well.I was a mate of Jack's eldest son and was taken out with them on many a Sunday ride in one of the few cars around in those days. When my sons wanted their first bike it was straight down to Jacks for it! Great family - as was a lot round there at the time.

my grandad had the clog shop at 28 chapel lane and i dont know if anybody remembers him,he had a "peg Leg"

This is the first time I have come across Chapel Lane. My great grandfather William Wood and family were living at 3 Chapel in the 1881 census. Im sure the building is long gone!

My father tried to buy me a bike from watson's around 1962 it was £16 complete with gears and a dynamo,but dad was refused credit as my mother left my dad in debt when she left him.We lived in chaple st and i was given a secondhand bike.

I bought my first bike off Jack,when i left school,and i lived in Hartley Terrace,between Faggy Lane and Queen St.

Why has my comment re Watson's bike shop june 2010 be deleted it was there last Saturday 7 June 2014 it was something that happened in my past and was not harming any one mum and dad have now passed away.

I may have dreamt this, but was there some kind of bell under the mat as you walked in the shop?

Bought my first bike from here, paid it off at £2 a week. Born just across the road in Ann Street.