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Barry's hardley changed, he just turned into a giant.

busy bee chimmey in the background and the houses are the back of langdale ave

Eeeeh! The big Chimney I spent some time in there making fires, thats after Derek Rigby had pinched some matches from his dads box on the mantlepiece. I remeber a right of passage was if you could jump the gap between the concrete slabs on the "big building" it was about 10 feet off the ground the gap about four feet across. for an eight year old that might as well have been 2 miles up.

r gang used to play round that chimney to happy days

This chimney was hit by lightening in the 60s and quite a number of bricks were blown out of the side luckily it was a double brick constrution so it did not collapse it stood for around 12 months in that condition. before being demoilshed and a new estate was built on the land

great picture is the oak tree pub nr by an is that building in the background the sub station whats still there today.

not only the chimbley, but the slaggy can be seen behind it, I lived in Langdale just on the bend which is just out of shot on the right, I passed that spot everyday when worked at Smiths Dairy.

our gang from langdale avenue used to play around there too
oh Happy days
in remember beatrice and betty and barry, but cant place janice cooper though!

how nice to see this pic, i know barry and i seem to remember beatris the other girls names ring a bell,we all used to play around there, i remember another bit of a brick building right near the chimbly where us girls made it into a house using old bricks into chairs and a table we had peices of slate for plates and if u were lucky u had a doll for the baby,sluch& water mixed with grass was our pretend dinner,and gerry remember that woman who went mad at me and you for as she thought we were smoking but they were those trick cigs that looked like smoke was comeing out when u blew into them,she said i know who u are i'll tell ur mams, well same woman saw me & our pat playing on this building although we should have been at school,she said the same thing to us we were frightend of going home that day ,wish i could go back.

I remember Janice Cooper; I believe she lives in America now.

I went to Belle Green school and was in the same class as Betty Hargreaves know her husband as well Steve Lythgoe. They are now living in Cyprus and where over recently.

David Thomas.....you didn't go to Ince Central at some point did you? Your name rings a bell.

i lived on langdale at no10 what number was your house aitch

tony i bet you could name all the people who lived on your side of the street
from leylands, cunninghams, evans, ferns, dwyers, mitchinsons, hardmans, gaskells, whittles, ???, becks
i lived in the posh houses across the road from you

hi peter yer brenda was round ours the other night as for the avenue no2 armrods, greenhalgh,fish,leyland ,us, evans,fern,dwyer mitchinson,hardman,whittle,not sure brenda?,beck,thomas,lavin,after that i know a few leatherborrow,bennet, derbyshire,and jones at the end

Irene' no i never went to ince central Belle Green infants then Rose Bridge.My sister went to ince central her name was Pat Warner.

Tony, I lived at 22, next door to May, Bill and Brenda Heaton, (there,s someone you missed Peter) I still have 2 cousins living in Langdale, Norman and Frank, and I also have a sister in law who lived in the street, talk about all our yesterdays

Josie, we used to call that slutch and water mixture "slop-dash".

thanks eitch for brenda s last name i been rakin mi brain you lived in the whittles house i just about remember there was alan and i think raymond and at the other side was beryl and billy i remember billy on his bike he would called it the (tank) sadly his life was cut short i remember all the street were devastated when it happned

You are right there Tony, the other was Brian, I am the eldest, noe one has yet mentioned my old mate from across the road Kenny Walls, sadly he died a long time ago

across the road from your house as i remember was the parks, gouldings, frosts, ashcrofts,hollands,lowes,moores,duddles,brittens,and cunliffes ,but i dont remember walls

aitch and tony
you are bringing back a lot of memories here with those names.
i remember the heatons and billy hardman.
once remember billy a Puch motor bike and he were trying for hours to get it started, he was kick starting it and kick starting it but it wouldnt go.
his grandad came out to have a look and clipped billy behind his ear and said, it wont start its geet no bloody petrol in it.
we was all rolling about laughing,
he were a smashing lad was Billy

Peter, you are right and I stand admonished, it was Kenny Lowe, I think they lived a couple of doors away from you, Kenny had been in the army and had a medical problem with his back, he also had a brother with the same compaint, at my age, the memory does strange things, but they were still good days, and what ever happened with this drink we where supposed to be having

my names ian heaton im 34 years old and barry heaton is my father really gratefull for the pic saved it as my desk top agein thanks

my names john heaton barrys son great photo thank you your right joesph he did turn in to a real giant thanks agein

Hello John and Ian your dad and I went to St Bills and then the Cardy. Ask him about running home dripping wet after falling into the canal aged about 11 or 12

does anyone remember my late husband albert wilson i seem to remember him mensioning some of your names he came from around this area

aitch
i havent forgotten about that drink
Freds over from australia soon we shouls arrange a bevvie with him when he gets here
Viv
i remember an albert wilson from rose bridge school
if its the same one he would have been 62/63ish

hi peter yes albert would have been 62 now sadly he died 6 years ago i remember wilf frost dave thomas johny garrity jimmy metcalfe someone nicknamed(onion) many more the memories come back when i read names on the wigan world sight thanks

What a great photo of my brother Barry and all the gang janice cooper lived at the top of our back yard we lived at 14 Pennington Lane our Barry myself and our sister marie where born at 14 pennington. Lane in the 1950s what great life time memories we all have