Wigan Album

Ron, Peter says was your car a Mark 3 Cortina? I can see Coleclough and Massey's Bridal Shop along there.....I had a parasol made there for my wedding in 1974....it didn't open, it was just something to carry; I was never a traditional "white-dress-and- bouquet" bride and would have been happier in jeans!

Back in the days of loads of available and free parking !!

Irene, yes it was a Mark 3 with 4 doors. I was never interested in cars really. It was just the appearance I went for. I don't think I ever did over 80mph in it. Before that car, I had an Austen Heally Sprite. Red with wire wheels It used to take me all Sunday afternoon to clean the wheels. But when I had finished it... That was a 'BABE MAGNET' LOL

Ron.,when I passed my driving test in the seventies..we went to Mrs Turners of Pottery Rd to look at cars,I loved the look of a Ford Cortina estate but it. needed spraying ..but the lovely mrs Turner had it sprayed for me and wouldn’t take any money..it was beautiful..it’s registration was
RHM 662L..the porter st Whelley Hospital where I was working at the time. said the Rank Hovis McDougal firm would pay a fortune for the number plate….I’ll die wondering…but i absolutely loved that car.

It looks a bit like this at the moment, albeit with a few large holes in the ground.

I remember parking my Ford Capri there going to The Pacific Ocean. Mine was also yellow with a black vinyl roof, very Del Boy!
I think what was Coleclough and Massey is still there, I think its now called Creation.

There IS a bridal shop along there called "Creation", Colin, but Coleclough and Massey moved to an address behind the bus station, somewhere near to the sorting office, after they left Market Street. The shop no longer exists. I hope you didn't have any blow-up dolls in the back of that "Del-Boy" vehicle of yours!

The Ajmeer Manzil Indian restaurant to the right of Coleclough & Massey's'shop was, for many years, the only Curry House in town and where I first discovered my love of Indian food (circa 1983).
I also parked my Mk3 Cortina 2000E on the cobbles opposite, resplendent in its Daytona yellow paint & black vinyl roof.