Wigan Album

My name is Harry Worth,I don’t know why but there it is.Funny guy.

Thankyou Ray.... how thoughtful! Memories, Pw.....memories! We didn't need an X-Box or a computer to amuse us, did we? ....a shop window was enough! Oh, simple, happy childhood days!

I bet i'm not the only one who used to do this in Wigan town centre (when we had shops)

You're not Joe.

Joe Thomas, I do recall that there was a particular shop in Wigan where performing this trick was popular.

It was on Market Place, somewhere between King Street and Woolies, but I cannot remember name of the shop.

You could do this on the Hippodrome entrance doors. I did it may times as a kid in the early 1950's long before HARRY WORTH came onto the scene

Ena know where you mean it was a man’s shop near stylo

You could do this at Waring & Gillows on Station Road.

He was very rubbish really, wasn't he ? Not too long before him, we had a ventriloquist (educating Archie) and a juggler ('Monsewer' Eddie Gray) on the radio. You could not make this stuff up ! In short , we have had rubbish cast onto us by the BBC for years in the name of entertainment haven't we ?

It's absolutely true. looking back, that he wasn't really all that funny, but then neither are today's so-called "alternative comedians",. Look at the faces in their audiences when the camera pans round......... they all have false fixed grins, trying to prove they are enjoying a "humour" which they are clearly not. And at least Harry and his contemporaries weren't using foul language every other word.

So true Irene looking back some of the jaunts they got up too wasn't really all that funny, but they were very enjoyable and entertaining to watch. Comedians from back then such as Laurel & Hardy, George Formby and Dick Emery and others are still being enjoyed today as ever they were back then with their popularity among younger folks forever growing. There will always be those nit picking armchair critics of comedians who wouldn't even raise a laugh if they accidently tripped and fell face first into a bowl of custard.

These same armchair critics are always watching the shows they criticise, yet don't realise they can always turn to another channel or switch off their TV.

I too fully agree to with with what you say about alternative comedians who can't say a sentence without effing and jeffing and also the audiences who try to encourage them with fake laughs.

It was entertainment of its time and people still remember it and watch it.Most of it was visual comedy,that’s what TV was about in those days.They were just exaggerated situation comedies that has been lost today.

Plate spinning was good . Remember the audience roaring when a particularly wonky one was about to fall off its spike . Muscle man bad . Very very bad . De de de , da de de , da da da da ...

I liked Paul Whitehouse's parody of the old style music hall comedian
' Arthur Atkinson ' on The Fast Show .