Wigan Album

These van were newspaper delivery vehicles not for reporters or snappers.

I went in there around that time in mid week, never been in since. It was nice and quiet then.

The Ball and Boot pub in Orchard Street built in the late 1960s on the site of the small terraced street Foundry Street. There was also Clarence Street behind the Greenough Street shops and only Alliance Street is still there behind Wigan Little Theatre. The Ford Anglia is possibly TTC300D and the Mini van looks like an E or F reg. The maisonette flats behind was Orchard House in three and five floor blocks with a few more around Scholes, Worsley Mesnes and Dumbarton Green, Beech Hill.

I remember watching Billy Barker and The Envoys there one night, around 1969/70

The same picture is on facebook and the Anglia's registration is TTC106D and the Mini van, Preston number FCK562F.

Mr X, yes you right about the Post and Chron van being a Preston reg,
RN was another Preston reg.
The Wigan Post was indeed a sub of the Lancashire Evening Post based in Preston.

I am assuming the Ball & Boot was built around the same time as the Crooked Wheel in Worsley Mesnes (long gone) and the (new) Freemasons Arms in Goose Green as they all had similar characteristics.