Wigan Album

I grew up on Morden Ave in the 70's and we called the open land next to the old Ashton Baths the croft.

Looks like they were good & happy days at The Croft.

Good pic ozy, I'm just trying to get my bearing on this one I should be familiar with it really having lived for almost 30 yrs next door on Downall Green, I had an auntie who lived on school lane and my mother was caretaker at Gerard RC School in 80s, would this pic have been taken before the bungalows were built at bottom near railway station.

I met my love by the gasworks croft...dreamed a dream by the old canal. Brilliant photo of a simpler , gentler time, Ozy. Who are the people, please?

The spare land on the left hand side in Branch Street, Ince was always known as the croft.

Ozy see the comments on album, item number 10650.

Thanks Keith . Jackie Cunliffe lived in the house in that photo .
His daughter Linda McCutcheon posted the last comment .

At first , I thought the girl on the left was my late sister but I’m not too sure now . Next to her is my brother Jack , then next to Jack is Derek Weston , I’m pretty sure about that , and I assume the girl on the right is Pamela Fairhurst , the girl who Derek married , although I’m not entirely certain .

The bungalows you mention Dave were built on my Father’s and Finnegans pens . The land belonged to Derbyshires builders ,
from Downall Green I think they were , and they would have been built after this photo was taken I’m thinking .

We lived at No 47 , the fourth house along from the left .
Your aunt in School lane wouldn’t have been a Talbot by any chance would she Dave ?

This shot would have been taken from what would become the front room of one of another batch of bungalows that were erected in the early 60s .

Thinking about it now , the girl on the left could well be Joe Gormley’s daughter , as Jack was knocking about with her for a spell at around that time .

Hi ozy, I should have mentioned that the aunt was actually my father's. I have no knowledge of her surname but her first name was Evelyn, I asked my mother for more information but she's struggling with dementia now, the info I do have is that she possibly had a daughter whose name was Freda Partridge and Freda had 2 sons one named Andrew who was a taxi driver I can't name other son, not a great deal of knowledge on my father's side I'm afraid.

I’ll make a few enquiries Dave , but right now the Brocket beckons .

Freda was my Auntie by marriage and yes they had two sons Andrew who lives on Station Rd and Mark who lives in Haydock. Was the Croft to the side of the school/library or across the road where the bungalows are now that back onto the railway?

It was adjacent to the library Peter .