Wigan Album

What a beautiful lady,

She was lovely Irene thank you. I have a few professional photos of her. She lived in the Far East with her family for a number of years.

Veronica,she looks lovely.

Thank you Maureen. She was a lovely person. There were 5 sisters and their mother died while they were only little. I think Lily would have been about 4yrs old. They lived in Grt George St and then they moved up to Pemberton to a Council House. It must have been a very hard time when they were very young.

A very elegant lady Veronica.
I have a photo of my Granny dressed a bit like your Aunt....& she started her working life as a Domestic Servant ...life changes.

Yes It was hard times for that generation Helen. Born in the twenties and thirties and living through a war wasn’t the best of times. The outcome of ‘’sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind” ….Our generation came off very well.

Veronica's Giddy Aunt Sally, perhaps?

Beautiful pic Veronica, my late Mum's generation, they were brought up in tough times but always made the best of themselves.x

Thank you Elizabeth a generation that’s fading away very fast now even the children. I was born after the War but I do remember tales.

A very nice looking lady who would turn many a mans head. My late wife had two lots of pearls one set belonged to her mother and the other to her grandma now in the hands of my daughter in law.

They did dress nicely the women of that generation with what little they had Peter and everything about them was so natural. I doubt the pearls would have been real though. I have some cultured pearls I think I’ve only worn them twice. I think they were popular with that generation.

No tattoos or a pair of thick lips to be seen there, eh?

In those days it was soldiers and sailors who had tattoos Dek. If anybody had a thick lip it may have been because somebody had given you one in an argument!