People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

Hi Wigan! I'm a newcomer to the site. Found it by accident whilst staring at the screen - fed up. Started thinking back on my childhood and teens, and casually typed in 'Wigan' Up came this. What a site! What characters!...oddballs, wits,comedians - depressives - without which a site is dull. I've nearly wet myself reading some of the 'banter' (not hard to do nowadays)
My name is David Beeny, and I've lived in Plymouth for the past 53 years. Went to St Marks infants, Newtown (after our house was flattened by the Lutwaffe in 1940 in Liverpool.) Then it was Highfieid Sec Mod. I was in the same year as Eric Lawrenson, whos brother played for Wigan. The great Ken Gee was a few classes above me..and Slevin ? also.In 1950, I started an apprenticeship in Timberlakes, as a motor mech. Mr Rogers was the shop foreman, and old Timberlake would strut around as if he owned the place! I left, and went to work in a bespoke tailors in Wallgate, Weaver to Wearer (next to Lyons Milk Bar - run by Greeks I think. The daughter was a bit of alright though!) Further up was Dunnes the Hatters...(hatters...that's a laugh) I used to go to a little cafe in a place called 'The weind' I think, and opposite that was a ladies hairdressers,and a girl called Marlene Raynor worked there, (I fell in love with her aged 11 ...happy days...
Part of me will always remain in Wigan.
I lived in Spring Bank, in Ormskirk Rd, nr the Carneigie Library.