Wigan Album

This was Wigan Co-op's discount store to rival the competition such as Lennons, Tesco and Whelan's, I don't think it stayed open for very long, I can't remember if it later then became a bathroom, bedroom or kitchen fitters showroom?

Can't guess the year but there is a Ford Prefect and Mini van, (the Prefect had four doors and usually two tone colours, the Anglia and Popular cheaper with two doors).

I remember this store opening, circa 1967. I think it was Ken Dodd who performed the opening cermony.

Whereabouts on Gidlow Lane was this? I'm trying to pinpoint the exact location but I'm struggling.

CJ

I didn't know the Gidlow area in those days and yet the name "Krazy Kuts" is familiar. Perhaps there was another shop with that name somewhere.

Cyril, it still is a kitchen and bedroom fitters, Arley Cabinets i think it's called.
CJ, it is on the left going up the lane probably a couple of hundred yards from the Park Rd junction.

Used to be the picture house on Gidlow Lane, I think the building is still there. My Nan used to shop there in the 60's.

Thanks Roy, yes that's it Arley Cabinets - it's good to know that they're still going.

I worked at the Co-op late sixties to early seventies, and it was possibly 1968 when we took linoleum floor covering along to there when the Co-op's works department were doing the renovations to turn it from a cinema into one of those becoming popular pile it high sell it cheap shops.

I remember this as a Co-op jn the mid seventies. I am sure there was a Krazy Kuts in Leigh in the 70s, behind Bradshawgate and in the vicinity of what was then Leigh bus station

Derek B, I think that shop in Leigh might be the one I'm thinking of,

Almost every town had a Krazy Kuts in the late 60's, early 70's..

There was also a Krazy Kuts in Higher Ince.

used to go to gidlow cinema on Saturday afternoon, lots of cowboy films the lady with the tray round her neck,2 choc ices please,geof farrimond lived just further down gidlow lane.