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Where the traffic lights are would have been Platt Lane to the left ......I think.

I am wrong .....,,.its Scholefield Lane crossing to Greenough St

Come on Veebee, make your mind up, I'm relying on you.

Vb, you're right it is Schofield Lane. On the right is Sherington's Hardware .
I can smell the shop now ,a mixture of paraffin,wood,leather and oilcloth ,outside there would be rolls of chicken wire ,oilcloth lengths of wood. I was spellbound watching them cut glass on the counter.

Mmm,mm if the block of flats is Boyswell House I don't remember the old property on the right side of Greenough St still standing and that is what is puzzling me. I think it is though!!!! When I worked at the R.O.F I used to board the coach outside McCurdy's up to 1969 and it went down Greenough St and I distinctly remember the old property even though the chemist on the corner had gone by then .... I wish someone would put me right. Don't rely on me Eddie, Tom Walsh or Scholes Malc will know!

I knew you would know Tom . All the best for Christmas and New Year and everyone else!

Vb, you're right it is Schofield Lane. On the right is Sherington's Hardware .
I can smell the shop now ,a mixture of paraffin,wood,leather and oilcloth ,outside there would be rolls of chicken wire ,oilcloth lengths of wood. I was spellbound watching them cut glass on the counter.

Central Park floodlights in distance

Was Siney's barbers through the lights on the right?

Boyswell House went up in 1969 and the houses on Platt Lane that replaced the property on the right was bull built in 71/72.

veronica cant believe you got that wrong first time haha

that's right Ste,Sinney's was just further up than the car on the right of the photo.

Tom, Sherringtons had 4 or 5 hardware shops around Wigan. Was,nt there another hardware shop on Scholes just past the Balcarres on a corner, the name ended -- alls ?? Tommy tins, Kelly Lamps . Fire Blowers, the smell of paraffin a world long gone

AB, Sherrington's did have another shop just over the Scholes/Whelley border almost opposite Vine St. I think the hardware shop you refer to just past the Balcarres was Howard's

Before the road was re-aligned, on the opposite corner of Scholefield Lane to Sherrington's, was it Worthington's sweet and ice cream shop? Remember having my first ever ice cream from there.

Derek, It was Howards. I went past every day for 4 years going to Whelley School but I don't remember Sherringtons near Vine St, they had shops in Wallgate and Mesnes Rd

Yes it was Worthingtons Derek B. I recall being taken in there when the sweet ration ended ......1954 I think.

AB, the Whelley Sherrington's branch was next to an off licence which, unusually for this area, was run by C&S (stood for Cunningham and Swarbrick, I think) which was a Blackpool brewery. If you remember Sam Tetsil's butchers shop between Great Acre and Vine St., it was almost opposite that. Seem to remember Sherrington's also having a branch in the Makinson Arcade.

Derek, thanks, I rmember Sam Tetsil's shop No 2 Whelley, His son Ronnie was in my class, The Ironmongers is still a blank,