Wigan Album

An appropriate pub name for the Buffaloes to meet on Thursday evenings.

There was a landlord of The Bridgewater Inn on Scot Lane by the name of Slevin, I can't recall his first name, but I seem to remember he may have been an ex Wigan rugby player, his son was also a pub landlord, he was at The Montrose on Montrose Avenue, I was wondering if they may have been related to James Slevin the landlord of this pub.

Noticed it was also an advert for Sawbridge butchers on Wallgate, I know they also had a shop in the Commercial Yard, but am I mistaken in that they also had a shop on King Street at one time?

Cyril, my husband worked in Sawbridge's in Wallgate as a young lad on leaving school in 1966 and moved with them when they moved to Commercial Yard, which is where he worked when I first went out with him in 1968, (I was still at school!). He has no knowledge of them having a shop in King Street but says it could have been before his time.

Thanks Irene, it was an elderly man with whom I worked alongside and once mentioned that he started work as an apprentice butcher in a shop on King Street, I'm sure he said Sawbridge's. I remember you mentioning previously about Peter working at this butchers and that reminded me of this conversation as did this advert. Though it was around fifty years ago so I could have misheard him or he could have been confused about places, I could imagine a butchers on King Street to be unusual, though in the 1920s there may well have been all manner of shops along there with it being a main thoroughfare and a world away from what it is today.

When Swbridges was in Wallgate,I use to go often as a child for my Mam..Saturday it was a leg of lamb for Sunday dinner..but I wouldnt eat meat even as a child. Jim was a very big man and Billy was a lovely man...as for being in King Street I don't ever remember there being one there.

Cyril, your right is first nme was Edward better known has (Ted )
Played for Wigan RL 1948-51 then Huddersfield 1951-63.
Great britain 1953-54.