Wigan Album

My Dad bought his 500cc Velocette Venom Clubman new from there in 1961

yes i remember Millers motorbike shop very well we used to go and gaze through the windows and wish for the day we could have a bike,do u remember a shop across the road which sold home made creme soda in a glass for a penny,also dandilion and burdock all home made,we used to have a glass and sit on the form inside then go and look at the bikes across the road,When i was a bit older i bought a Triumph T100 Bathtub reg num HEK 255,wish i had it now?.

Millers was no 74 Scholes. My mother and dad had No 72 which they ran as a snack bar 1946-50.No 74 was formerly a Martins Bank and Stan Miller from Chorley opened it as a motor cycle shop about 1948.I remember him coming back from riding in the TT with his arm in a sling.His brother Les was a coach builder at Leyland Motors and the body bshop closed down and he joined Stan in the Business. In 1950 they bought our shop No 72 from us, and an empty shop No 70 and expanded the business which continued and moved on the Scholes developement.