Wigan Album

My Mother, Susannah Jolley, was born there back in 1904. Her Dad Peter ('owd P) was the landlord. The family later took on the Swan and Railway opposite North Western station.

An interesting set of newspaper cuttings Ron.
I came across The Shovel & Broom when looking into some family history.

I never really knew the old Scholes except for walking along a street , (I think it was Greenough Street), in the mid-sixties when I used to go to Central Park with my friend and her Dad, but it has always held a fascination for me, from the stories I have heard about it and its close-knit community. It is good to have a glimpse of these old pubs.

The Shovel & Broom was straight facing the top of Greenough St.

Edna no it wasn't. It was at the bottom end of Scholes Check out the other images of Scholes on the site and you can see where it was. I think it later became a sewing factory?

Ron, I've got it mixed up with the " Dust Hole" it was that, which was facing the top of Greenough St.

Thought that was the 'Top Long Pull ' Edna

Wasn’t that one on the corner of Greenough St and Scholes Standisher that you mean. It was covered in maroon tiles if memory serves me well.

My mother, born in Broomfield Terrace in the 1940s, knew the Shovel and Broom straightaway. It was on Manchester Road, at the top of Bolton Street (aka Broom Street, apparently). Banny's (Bannister's) scrapyard was at the bottom, and it was mid-way between Clarington Brook and the canal bridge at Rose Bridge, just higher up than Forge Street.
She doesn't recognise the pub in the cutting, though, but then she was really small when she knew the Shovel and Broom she's talking about, and/or there could always have been another Shovel and Broom in Scholes...