Wigan Album

Veronica, thank you for this series of photographs.
The Regents nick name was' The Kill and Cure '
because of its closeness to Dr Hoey s surgery, later Drs Ince and Mills

Everything looks clean and litter-free.

I have one with Pie Joe’s shop Tom and Union St. Will post eventually. Thanks ..

My grandma lived in the house, you can see, between and pub and surgery. People called it 'KILL'<g>

Opps should have said the house was called AND as it was in between the pub and doctors i.e. KILL AND CURE

Dr Hoey's Waiting room on a winter evening during the war was certainly more kill than cure
Packed with elderly miners with chest complaints seated around a coal fire and smoking, was a suitable anteroom for his consulting room where the good doctor himself was a chain smoker

This was the vantage point for watching the Whit Walks. I can remember my grandma putting chairs out the night before in front of the house. Or,if it rained. I would watch from the upstairs bedroom window.