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Born there,I was!

I will try and restore this interesting photo ,Ron.

What works/ factory/ etc. would the tall chimney in the distance have belonged to?

I was born there also. Would love to see any other photos of School St;

It may only be "half a photo" but to me priceless, shows where my great grandparents lived in the 1890's. Thanks for posting.

The factory chimney in the distance would probably be Eckersleys Mill.

Brilliant picture Ron. I was born in this street too. Where on earth do you get these pic's from ? And. . . have you any more?

derekb are you surer that s eckersley's mill chimney ,would itnot be trencherfield which would be in the forefront of eckersleys,which direction did school st run in ie e/w or n/s

is this School st which is just round the corner from WLT,?my friend used to live there Irene Parkinson, does anyone remember her,or know here whereabouts ,would love to get in touch

i think the photos you have put on of old scholes are brilliant. i lived there for the 1st 10 yrs of my married life. brilliant memories

Micky East - School St ran NE to SW.
If you looked along it to the SW, it was more or less dead in line with both Trencherfield and Eckersley Mills.

Mickey East, School St. ran from Greenough St. towards Warrington Lane joining there just before Scholes crossing. As another Mick says the factory chimney could be either Eckersleys or Trencherfield Mill

oh my god ron,i love this photo, i never lived in scholes but i hung about there in 60s from time to time as i lived in hr ince and we would walk the streets me and my friend all over ,i wish these streets were here today as they are beautiful .

The building at the bottom is: now the town hall and it's small chimney. Yes! this is looking from Greenough Street. This street now is Morris Street.

Hi mw as I said previously I lived in School St:and I knew
Irene Parkinson.She lived opposite to my house. I was friendly with her sister Marjorie.Do not know where they are now.

,the photo above is not school street..School Street was a long row of houses ,with a corner shop..leading into lime Street ..

I can’t vouch for which street this is but School Street ran parallel with Lime Street. Both strayed at Greenough Street and crossed both Upper Morris Street and Lower Morris Street before exiting at School Lane.
School Street joined at a junction with Orchard Street next the Wigan Little Theatre on School Lane.

this is not school st it is lime st i was born in school st in 1947 at number 48 i had 2 brothers and a sister and lived there untill the 60s when they were demolished and moved into limefield flats which were built on the bryed in lime st which is the land in the middle of the photo on the left side of the st between the second and third block of houses.