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Mesnes Street, Wigan

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Oliver Summers
Oliver Summers
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 28358
View of Oliver Summers shop taken from Hope street.
Thanks to Trevor Smith( Smith's Book Shop) for the photograph

Comment by: Roy on 22nd September 2016 at 13:10

Get back to TLS Ron, the shop frontage clearly shows, Oliver SOMERS. Some more good old pics here, thanks to you and Trevor Smith

Comment by: RON HUNT on 22nd September 2016 at 15:45

This 'summer' spell of weather has addled my brain..

Comment by: Broady on 22nd September 2016 at 19:05

I think there was a shop further down in front of the Royal Arcade when I went to school. Almost opposite what is now Subway.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 22nd September 2016 at 19:13

Oliver Somers had two shops near to Standishgate more or less opposite each other, the one on the right ,looking towards Standishgate, sold all the sports gear, Shirts, shorts socks etc. (Bought my first JOCK STRAP from there) and the one opposite sold Bicycles. I think at one time it could have belonged to TOM HUGHES?

Comment by: Broady on 22nd September 2016 at 19:31

I wouldn't have said opposite. The other one was well down past the Market Hotel almost on Standishgate.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 22nd September 2016 at 20:16

This isn't the original Oliver Somers shop... as I said... there were two shops on either side of the road near to Standishgate. One was next door to the cobblers come key cutting shop. and the other bike shop was opposite it.
Check out the pictures of Mesnes street, on the site, and you can see the OLIVER SOMERS signage on the side of the building and also the interior of the Bike shop

Comment by: Freddy on 23rd September 2016 at 19:41

Originally ted hughes cycle shop.

Comment by: Jonno on 24th September 2016 at 01:18

TOM Hughes Freddy.

Comment by: Vb on 24th September 2016 at 19:56

The cobbler's shop next to Oliver Sommer's shop was Bert Smiths. I think Freddie is confusing Ted Hughes the poet with Tom Hughes the cyclist.

Comment by: john on 18th October 2016 at 13:40

Didn't this shop used to have a 'Michelin man' figure stuck on the wall-front?

Comment by: Mick on 18th October 2016 at 14:32

John - in the 1980s it had an inflatable Michelin man on a first floor window ledge.

Comment by: Maureen on 18th October 2016 at 19:38

It was there in 1959

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