POOL STREET POOLSTOCK

Does any body have any old pictures of Pool Street in Poolstock in the 60's 70's. I was telling my daughter about what Poolstock used to be like when she was just a baby but I don't have any photos to show her.We had all the shops we needed inc Chemist,Butchers , Newsagent, Hardwear, Off Licence, Shoe Repairers, Hairdressers, Grocers not to mention a school (and Church which thank goodness we still have)

Only thing I remember about poolstock is the Youth club and the roadside shop opposite.

there was a long running thread somewhere on here about Corporation Street at Poolstock which was just off Pool Street. If you can find it I'm sure there were some pictures and memories of interest to you susie.

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Cheers, I_spy. didn't think of doing a search for poolstock.

i-spy & gwim weaper many thanks for taking an interest.I will keep on looking for new links. Thanks again.

Susie there were two chip shops too, another shop that sold knitting wool etc
That park, known as Little Park, had large stone seats

My mother told me that a long time ago, probably in the 1920s a policeman was on duty on a bitterly cold night
He refused to go indoors and stayed outside, the next morning he was found in the Little Park frozen to death sat on one of those seats

Susie q Do you remember the doctor's surgery in Poolstock where docs Coffey and Clews practiced? It was just a bit further on towards Wigan near Poolstock labour club (now Shanghai palace). It was the end of a terrace - must have once been a dwelling house. Just a waiting room and two or three consulting rooms as I recall - very basic. Always packed with patients especially Monday mornings. Then they moved to Highfield Grange Ave - now at Chandler House. Drs. Coffey and Clews now retired of course.

cordyline- The park is known as Eckersley Park and the stone bench is long gone . I still go to St James church as I was born and brought up in the area.The chip shops were Taylors and Bulloughs both were really good. The story about the policeman was interesting too. My husband used to live a few doors away from what was the doctors surgery and a school friend of mine lived next door. Such happy times

Noko
The Doctors surgery was on Poolstock at the place you mentioned,it was at the junction with Sandown Street

There are a few maps of Poolstock in those days around on WW

A Doctor before those mentioned was Dr Hamilton, his Daughter went to Poolstock school the one near the church
Daphne --She would be age around 68 now

Another death to report I'm afraid...
...one Sunday morning Dr H was found dead in the bath...
...some said it was suicide

Only thing I remember about poolstock is the Youth club and the roadside shop opposite.

Did you go to the youth club GW?
It was the Comet, I bloke called Derek ran when I went.
Roadside Cafe' owned by the Winstanley family, they had 2 sons, car mad.

I only went once, Stuart. We played a game of football near it and called in afterwards. Good place though, enjoyed it. Shame places like that don't exist any more, (Local venues for local people before anyone brings the boys/girls scam into it).
Roadside is still there though.

used to work at dog track and at clifton mills.great friends with tommy needham,norman barlow,dave oliver,john fairhurst rip john silcock rip keith ashurst rip all died far to young i did,nt come from poolstock but it had a good community feel.they should have knocked bits of it down then started rebuilding the place.to keep the people together.instead of scattering them to the far corners of the borough.

There were 4 chip shops Reads,Top of Corporation St Next to the old Poolsdtock Labour club,Taylors, on the corner of Oldfield st & Pool St, Etheringtons,in Pool St,& Tinsleys, In Coronation St.

susie q Hope someone comes up with some photos of
Pool St. Sorry I haven't any.

Cordyline The old map is very interesting - thanks for
putting it on. Sad news about Dr H.

Was there a Dr Healey as well.

cindy
maybe susie or cordyline will know about Dr Healey.
I only became a patient there from 1963 so I don't
remember him or Dr. Hamilton.I think Dr.Zaman,
(former Wigan Rugby League doc) was there as a
GP at the same time as Drs. Clews + Coffey.

Yes Dr Healey was there, after Dr Hamilton, there may have been others too

If you look at the map, notice that the Surgery and Dr's house is larger than next door [at the top of Sandown St] but on the main road

Outside the surgery was just paving, the house had a garden wall, about 5 ft high from the house to the pavement

ON a cold murky winter night Georgie Bond and Kenny Murdock
played a dastardly trick on Doc Hamilton

On the side wall near the front door was placed a large glass bottle with string attached
The other string end was tied to the front door handle
Murdock rang the bell and ran off
The doc had a narrow escape, when the door opened the said bottle flew across and smashed into the wall

My grandparents lived in Tipping St Poolstock and used to run the cricket club

Made a return trip to the "little park" and discovered that my lap time - 40 odd years later - has only dropped by five seconds.

At one time a family in Tipping St. -- Chatterleys worked at the cricket club

Chatterleys were related, my dads family were Drapers

I was a mate of Frank Chatterley

He's about 2 or 3 years older than me
In the 50s we were both cadets in St John Ambulance Brigade

We got to see Wigan RL from the dug-out at Central Park
And free entry into Springfield park for the Latics

They were in the Lancashire Combination League in those happy days

I was born in Byrom st in the 50's

I was born in Byron St Poolstock

First Friday in March 1943

Dave Whelan had a shop in Pool St in the 60's.

The shop that Dave Whelan had in Pool Street in the 60's was the first self serve shop I had ever been in it felt strange taking things from the shelves yourselves and putting them in a basket after shopping in the Co-op that was on the corner of Pool Street and Corporation Street. Seems like only yesterday sometimes.

Was it Simms shop before Whelan got it ?

Not sure if it was |Bartons or not

Bartons rings a bell

Do you remember Simms ?
May have been sisters, Mrs Simms was married to Harry, a lorry driver for Pemberton Caravans

They had a bungalow built at Shevington, moved into it around 1964

edit
The butcher was Silman though it was a Ben Turner shop
They had daughters, one was a teacher for a while at Tommy Moor, son was Ben

cordy..l remember Johnny's shop..Mother used to put 6d a wk in the Christmas club. every Christmas she would buy us a choc companion set and a games compendium.

It wasn't bartons, bartons was next door to boons offlicence
opposite Bakers st

It wasn't bartons, bartons was next door to boons offlicence
opposite Bakers st

The butchers on the corner was Crofts.
farther down on the corner near the Honeysuckle was the cloggers, Dickensons.
Opposite the cloggers was the Co-op and next door to that was Witheringtons hardware shop

......Johnny's shop..........
That was his first name, a lad about my age who lived there in the 50s was Alan Bradley

Last time I saw him he was living on Poolstock Lane - opposite that Catholic church

Croft the butcher moved shop to Bryn
Son Stan took over, he now lives at Marus Bridge

bradleys had the paper shop on pool street opposite taylors chippy

a few more shops round Poolstock were Mellins opposite the school on Hardman street.
Ambrosia's on tipping st opposite clifton mills
and Annie Milligans on Brook st

......bradleys had the paper shop......
we always referred to this shop as Johnny's shop

My mum used to work at one of the chippy's in the 70's, it was run by Yvonne&Derek and they had kids Guy, Lee and Amber. It was on Poolstock between the club and corporation St&backed onto the canal.

I was too young for the youth club but my older brother and some cousins went when it was Comet.

In reply to Cordyline's post about Doc Hamilton and Daphne.
Daphne is my aunt and still alive, 82 last November , the only surviving child of Doctor and Mrs Hamilton (my grandparents); their other two children (John - my dad and Jim - my uncle) have sadly passed.
I was with Daphne this weekend and she can confirm Dr Hamilton died of a heart attack, it wasn't suicide.

Hello. Just to let you know, Cordyline's post about that was 15 years ago, and, sorry to say, he hasn't posted anything else on here since 2020.