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brilliant photos dk.the sub station in your photo is it the one nr oak tree pub.

There were three shops near this spott DK one we shopped at was called ALICES.. her son in law John helped out then he opened his own shop in the same row as Cartwrights Cloggers near to the railway bridge near the Bush another shop next to the railway crossing was owned by a lady who had a son named Granville.. another shop just lower down was called AMYs and then there were a chip shop on another corner just near here

Gerry, as best as I can remember, and I'll stand corrected: starting with the Oak Tree, there were three houses attached to it after an entry uphill and one downhill and then a corner chippy with a big lime green range. Russell street is next and then the mid-terrace shop, shown on the other photo, was Amy's. After that, there was another side street and then the next corner shop is the one I'm trying to remember as a Grocer's complete with bacon slicer in the back left of the shop. Across the road from the oak was our row and we lived in the middle. Two houses down from us on this side of Belle Green Lane was Alice's shop which became John's shop.

I'm going to have to go and have a lie down for a bit!

Masons chip shop was on the corner of Russell street mrs Mason lived in the terraced houses on the left in chatham street Amy Mulveys shop wasnot amid terrace shop it was on the corner and on the other corner of the street was the cloggers cant remember his name but i can see him and remember the wonderful smell of new leather he was little chap and always had a bowler hat on.

dk have you any photos of rosebridge walking days about 1963-4

wonderful dk,it could be me i hope it is caus thats exactly what i was talking about minding babies same pram as well most prams were like that i used to lift the baby out and play mam!!!!! imagin i was only like the girl in the pic i could have dropped it or anything but i loved pushing a pram , please put me down for first edition of them all ha ha.cant wait we all want one.

it could be me and the baby must be a boy as you can see the blue rattle on the pram they were a row of round or shaped rattles that fitted at one side of the pram to the other and when my brother arrived and my mam made us take him out we werent so keen as we didnt get paid ha his pram was same as that.

I think my mate Cristopher Latham lived in that middle house shown on the right hand side (near the washing)

Gerry mentioning the cloggers next to the Spring Branch crossing suddenly reminded me how my dad Jack once told me the sat him up on a bench there and he had a tooth pulled out that was giving trouble. Nothing like turning your hand to a multitude of jobs. DK how about putting the Lower Ince Station pic on?

Us like-minded Incers can't wait for the disc,dk; Please form an orderly queue, everyone!

We could do with clearing it up this shop business. I'm more confused now than I thought I was when I was I was sure I couldn't have been more than half wrong.

A couple of people have commented on here in the past but I haven't seen much of them recently. June and Julie MacDermott could clear up this identishop, I'm sure. Also, the Taylor brothers, one of whom is Alan, used to live in the middle of Russell Street and got demobbed to West Street, next door the the chap who was Caretaker at Rose Bridge School, when Russell Street was knocked down. They could clear it up as well. They were teenagers when we were little kids.

With regard to copies and stuff: it won't be a problem. Please see the comments on the Iron Bridge pic.

Thanks for all of the interest that has been shown by everyone.

was the cloggers cartwright's ?

i think cartwrights was further up lane,i have had a look on wigan directory 1925/26 and comeing up the lane on right hand side was number 136 on corner of stanley st was john isaac mather boot & clog maker dont seem to be a 138? on other corner of stanley st was 140,john lee general dealer,142 was abraham hill collier,then 144 is francis mulvey general dealer,i think this is the shop in your pik dk ,russell st was two doors up from shop and i think that mulveys must have moved into the corner shop 140 as i remember amy mulvey haveing that shop with the corner door , gerry i looked for alices and she was across the rd at 125 miss alice brown shopkeeper think somewhere nearer the crossings or maybe elizabeth st?

I think Alice's shop was between Russell street and Amy Mulveys the bus stop was in front of the shop caught 3E bus to Wigan many a time.

If it is of any help to you,we lived next door to Joe Moss's shop that was on the corner of Elizabeth Street our house number was 123 Belle Green Lane so Moss's shop would have been 125. For some reason in the 60s can't remember why all the houses were renumbered and our number became 159. I would also be thrilled to have a disc of the walking days to see if I can find members of my family. Belle Green Mission church was a big part of our family life. My Mum (and I sometimes) would play the organ, she was Sunday School Superintendent, I was a Sunday School Teacher, we were all in the choir andDad used to run the Mens Bible Class and oh when it was walking day how busy we used to be. Mum would bring home all the ribbons for the banners and she would bleach them all to make them white and she would hang them on the washing line. My job was then to hold them down flat whilst she ironed each one. We then went to Belle Green School on the Friday night before walking day and we would stitch all the ribbons back on the banners. Every time I smell a carnation it takes me back to those walking days as all the flowers used to be delivered to our house on the Saturday morning for us to distribute them, we didn't have much but oh they were such happy days everyone helping each other.

Splendid memories Maureen! You are welcome to a disc. If you would email me on the link here and I will reply an address in Rose Bridge where you can go and collect a copy. (I don't want to put the address on here.)

Francis MULVEY was my 2 x Great Grandad. He died in 1911 just before my Grandad was born. I haven't found an Amy in his children yet so wondering if Amy was his sister? or Mum? He was born in Leitran, Ireland in 1853. Would love to hear more if any more memories? My Grandad was born on Belle Green Lane last name TYRER.

My mum,Stella Hurst,maiden name Bennett,was born in Russell Street in July 1914.

Forgot to say my mum would have been thrilled to bits with the photos on here,she had great memories of growing up in Belle Green lane area.