Wigan Album

How lovely! Just imagine little feet in those!

Some thing about clogs...& flat caps, whippets etc...think its whats called identity...something we are fast losing in this country. Anyway...I saw a small pair of brown clogs on an antique programme on TV recently. They were beautiful just as this pair is.

Until I was 10 I only wore shoes on Sundays. The clogs were always made to measure, & we enjoyed wearing them. it was annoying to us girls that we had to have the leather on the soles, while the boys had metal - & they could "Spark" by scuffing them.

I remember wearing clogs when I was little, my little thin legs could hardly lift up my feet... I have a pair of little blue clogs, that I bought from 'The Way We Were' museum at Wigan Pier 20something years ago ...

My mother once told me that when she was a little girl of 4 years old back in 1916, she started school in Whelley, she was by far the smallest in her class. The school teacher said " well Ethel dear, you could put muck in your clogs see if that will make you grow". The very next day she called at the farm ---- during assembly she was taken out because of the smell coming from her clogs. She reached the dizzy hieght of 4ft 8in so that didn't work.

Walt what was your mothers maiden name am researching family names from Whelly 1800/1900understand if you dont want to say'

Hi Jan, my mothers maiden name was Davies, she was born at 36 Bolton Street. My Grandad was Edward and Grandma Margaret Ann. Mother had a sister known as Betty, a brother named Edward and a brother named Walter who I am named after. She was born in 1912 she passed away 2007 at the grand old age of 95 years.