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greenough st
greenough st
Photo: surfer_tom
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Item #: 31392
greenough street

Comment by: Veronica on 3rd August 2019 at 11:41

One of my most favourite pictures of Greenough St - it evokes so many memories. I bought a lovely 'shopper' bike from Mellings- called Rogersons later on. I then swapped it for a 'racer' as the 'shopper's' wheels were smaller than a 'racer' and harder to ride. Every week for quite a few years I cycled from Westoughton to Wigan to visit my parents. It kept me fit - even riding up Castle Hill!

Comment by: john brown on 3rd August 2019 at 14:09

Ace picture Tom

Comment by: Maureen on 3rd August 2019 at 14:39

Veronica,I still have my bike but going up brew is an effort now..I would love one of those electric ones,but they're very expensive..maybe when I win the lottery ha ha.
P.S,look at that road,it hits you like a brick...no litter.

Comment by: DerekB on 3rd August 2019 at 15:29

The shop entrance immediately in front of the two men was Tickle's printers. Don't know if they would still be in business at the time this photo was taken

Comment by: Tony G on 3rd August 2019 at 16:09

Again, so many memories! Lived on this street 1959 -71 Opposite the pub, Princess of Wales

Comment by: Alan on 3rd August 2019 at 16:36

Item 6663.

Comment by: Alan on 3rd August 2019 at 16:38

Item number 19715

Comment by: Veronica on 3rd August 2019 at 17:26

Maureen I still have one in the shed! Too frightened to ride it now though with all the traffic on the roads...

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 3rd August 2019 at 19:16

Lovely photo. like the "Players Please" advert above the shop. Places had such character back then. xx

Comment by: Owd viewer on 3rd August 2019 at 21:35

In recent years I've gone up greenough street loads of times, but with coming from Spring view when this photo was taken l never went there, so where abouts in greenough st was this photo taken?

Comment by: fairpaul on 3rd August 2019 at 22:01

So many great memories. On the left up the road the Chippy where we would call on our way back from the Comet Youth club, for a 6 of chips with pea wet on. Dr Johnson's at the top. Mr Tickle the printer was our neighbour and he would still be in business when the photo was taken. Sam Mellings bike shop was always known as Sam Plonks for some unknown reason when I was a lad.

Comment by: Veronica on 3rd August 2019 at 22:21

Owd viewer the two lads are just passing the evil smelling urinals that men used- near to the bottom of Greenough St. Near the shop on the left you could walk down the side of the Duggy- if my memory is correct.

Comment by: Philip G. on 4th August 2019 at 00:40

I've always liked the lettering of that particular Players Please ad, Irene; A nice flow, with just a dash of bounce. I once worked with a bloke who bought 60 Embassy each morning, allowing what could have been the majority of them to burn away on the edge his work bench. He was popular, small, rotund, and never appeared to use his dentures - Others thought it was just a matter of time before he swallowed one of his cigs. Take care.

Comment by: Elizabeth on 4th August 2019 at 09:13

Walked down here regularly as a child with my Auntie from Higher Ince.She seemed to love going from along Manchester Road,then up Birkett Bank to Schofield Lane and down Greenough Street to Wigan.Found out years later her grandmother had been from Scholes and she probably had great memories of visiting her there.A great photo.

Comment by: Maureen on 4th August 2019 at 11:38

Re - my word brew..I know it isn't the correct spelling,but couldn't find any other..it's a slang Wigan word for uphill so not in any dictionary..just so everyone knows I'm not thick ha ha.

Comment by: DerekB on 4th August 2019 at 13:03

Fairpaul, you must have lived in Pyke St. if the Tickles were neighbours. Mrs Tickle and my mother were lifelong friends.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 4th August 2019 at 13:27

Would where the two lads are be just forward of where Calderbank’s scrap yard was? The bottom of Greenough Street was the end of the’ Round Scholes Beat, having covered Darlington Street West, Warrington Road, to Britannia Bridge, then Darlington Street East, to Clarrington Brook, all streets then to the top of Greenough Street, and then down Greenough Street, to the bottom, then a welcome cup of tea, at Mrs Dickenson’s newsagent’s. The beat would already have covered, by another officer, between 10pm, and 1am. So all property was checked a couple of times, between 10pm and 6am. Not so in these modern times.

Comment by: fairpaul on 4th August 2019 at 13:58

DerekB, Yes Pyke Street the Tickles were good friends of ours, the children Alan and Sheila were older than us but been to the rugby many times with Alan a real character.

Comment by: fairpaul on 4th August 2019 at 14:06

DerekB, In those days I would almost run around the town centre as 6am was approaching because if you came back on duty at 10pm and there had been a break-in on your patch the previous night you had some explaining to do. These days unfortunately nothing to do with the police "Look after your own property"

Comment by: Owd viewer on 4th August 2019 at 14:30

Thanks Veronica, Central Park to the left out of view bottom left. h

Comment by: Thomas(Tom)Walsh. on 4th August 2019 at 16:41

The Public House on the right of the picture was 'The Princess of Wales' almost everyone mistakenly called it 'The Prince of Wales' the building just below the pub was Maidwells Sewing Factory . Maureen the word brew is a northern word for brow ; when I was a child in Scholes you would often hear the older people use the word ,as an example " it's hard work going up brow "

Comment by: Mr X on 4th August 2019 at 20:32

Greenough Steet possibly in the 1960s. All the buildings were demolished by the 1970s except those at the bottom on the right that went in 1985 to make way for the new ring road. I remember Rogersons motorcycles, a fish and chip shop, Visionhire televisons, I don't know what else was there. Just out of the picture behind the two men was the gents urinal only toilets and a telephone box next to the River Douglas and of course Central Park. Buses that went up Greenough Street were Wigan Corporation 14-18 to New Springs, Bolton, Horwich, Haigh and Blackrod, while the LUT 32/38 to Manchester and 59 to Bolton were rerouted on Powell Street, and the new River Way (they did not go up Greenough Street). The street behind the shops was Clarence Street, and Regency Court flats are further up.

Comment by: fairpaul on 4th August 2019 at 21:06

Sorry the comment above was in reply to Albert.S not Derek B.

Comment by: Carolaen on 4th August 2019 at 22:15

At the top of the road on the left hand side just past the car is what used to be Lenagans. He did all right.

Comment by: Veronica on 4th August 2019 at 23:21

Oh! To be young again, carefree and tripping down Greenough St on a Saturday afternoon after being paid on Friday. Weekly wages in a small brown envelope In those days, all your own after paying what you had to for 'bed and board'!

Comment by: Albert..S on 5th August 2019 at 15:57

As fairpaul states, discipline was paramount, the whole of Wigan was covered by foot patrol beats, each beat was covered before refs, and then after refs, a different officer covering the beat that you had previously covered and patrolled, you being allocated a different beat, than previously.

Comment by: Jinksi on 6th August 2019 at 15:01

Veronica,1963,started work as Apprentice Bricklayer. £3 a week.£2 to mi Mam for mi keep £1 for me, Rode Bike Spring View to Standish Lower Ground & back 5 sometimes 6 Days a Week.And still had a few Bob left in mi pocket.

Comment by: Veronica on 6th August 2019 at 16:41

Looking back Jinksy - my mother had the same amount from me leaving school to getting married, 8 years all told, so I didn't do so bad! Then my dad paid for my wedding....it was the traditional thing to do and I never left home till then - like a lot of girls. It just wasn't done then.

Comment by: WN1 Standisher on 8th August 2019 at 11:09

Am I right in thinking that Upper Morris St WMC was built just further up from where the pub is standing, just past the sewing factory, where McDonalds is these days

Comment by: Wiganreds48 on 8th August 2019 at 16:04

You're right WN1, Morris St Working Men's was exactly where McDonalds is today. Me and my brother went in there every Christmas Day until 1997 to have a pint with my dad.

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