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The vicarage was were the vicar lived ,we used to go in the late 50s people used it for meetings or just a chat with the vicar if they needed advice later it became a meeting place for younger people ,there was also a hut we used on the rec it was built before my time it was a youth club for young lads had some great times their ,2 snooker tables,table tennis ,darts ,tennis courts, bowling green, football pitches cricket rugby ever thing young lads needed you should get a lot of info on this.just remembered rev on YouTube there is a film it's called growing up in scholes it's all about st Catherine's walking day from beginning to end it was a fellow name stockley home movie film you may recognise some on it its from late 50s

The Vicarage next to St Cath's was in use as the Vicar's home when I came to Wigan in the late 90s - but the address on this quote shows it wasn't used as the house Bob Metcalfe lived in in 1968, as he lived on Darlington Street East. Presumably you're saying you went to the Vicarage next to the church in the 1950s, Tom - so why wasn't it the place where the Vicar lived in 1968?

Sure some body will know rev I think it was turned into youth club after the one on the rec was shut down I see a lot of photos on here about st Catherine,s had a relative who i was officer in bb a long time i will ask him

Rev found out all about the vicarage at st cathrines it's a bit
Complicated roy my relativesays If you want to ring him he can tell you but I don't want to put his phone number on here.some thing to do with ince parish and lady vicar at st catherines

Rev
Think there was a house in Darlington st,that st catherines owned called the whithouse it became a youth club it was left to them in a will

I worked at St Catharines from 1978 until 1983 and the vicar then was Norman Bond with the vicarage next to the church, the staff still talked fondly of Bob Metcalfe and how they talked about him he did live in that same vicarage. Maybe it was a telephone enquiry that was made and they didn't know the full or correct address and just put Darlington St East, as they've also spelled Catharine with an e. The address could be confusing too as in the Directories on here under Stuff, the vicarage is addressed as being Schofield Lane, sometimes it is put down as just Scholes and also Lorne Street, whereas it's on Catherine Terrace off Catherine Street, notice that both street signs are also spelled with an e, this was because the name of the church was later spelled with an a. There was a Senior Churchwarden and School Governor Bill Stevenson who lived on Darlington Street East, but I'd never heard of the vicarage being on there. There was as Tom said a sports' hut on the recreation ground, though I'm sure that was set on fire.

The churches of St Catharine and Christ Church Ince are now one parish, or so I've been told.

Bob Metcalf lived in the vicarage at the side of the church, he married us in1968.Also Norman Bond lived there as well.As did a couple of vicars who came after them. The vicarage is now Wigan Family welfare.

The White House was in Leader St.