Greenough Street
My mum worked at Maidwells for some time during the 1970s and they used to make all kinds of clothing, particularly school uniform shirts and that kind of thing. I think it changed its name to Banner Textiles but I could be wrong about that
in the late 1950s, my friend Ann Dowling lived in the newsagents in Greenough St. just where the River Douglas green bridge was. The shop was run by her mum Betty and her grandmother who I think was Alice. A couple of houses further up was a hairdressers owned by a Mrs. Seddon who had a son Jim and a daughter Ann. There was a cafe just after Turner St. where you could by Vimto lollies for a penny. Was it Lewis's?
Wasn't there a bakers/confectioners shop somewhere along Greenough Street. I remember my Mum sending me to get cake when my Uncle came home from the War. She'd saved up her rations - it was such a treat. Was it Banners or something like that?
I worked in Maidwells sewing factory from 1939 - 1941. At the time they made ladies aprons, domestic overalls. It was on the corner of Orchard Street and Greenough Street. My mother had a grocery shop at 47 Scholes near Scholes crossing - Gallaghers. I moved from Maidwells to Northern Counties to do "war work" when I turned 18.
Oh boy do I remember Mr Prescott...he used to make us run all the way home for half a pence if we was short of it....even in in the rain...And I remember u an all Helen (nee Cummings) My mum and Dad live near your sister again now.
i lived just off greenough st all my childhood in the maisonettes Orchard house id say for at least 20 years i took at least one trip daily to greenough st be it to go to school at st marys in standishgate or to go to mr prescotts shop or the chippy, oliver summers bike shop was a little further on im not sure if it was next door i left wigan a few years ago and the last time i was there i couldnt believe how much that area had changed well never again see the girls going to madewells, or nip to mr prescotts for a quqrter of spam and a vimto lolly, those were the happiest times in my life.
My mother (maiden name Bennett) lived in the"and" in Greenough street. Their house was in between the REGENT pub and Doctor Hoey's? surgery. It was locally known as "KILL and CURE" Hence their house was known as "and"
My father had the scrap yard E Calderbanks Water Heyes Mill in Powell Street I remember a shop on the corner selling aprons and across the way the sewing place. When the rugby was being played we used to go upstairs in the rag shop and open double doors to watch the game.
Just a correction, the pub on the corner of Orchard St was "The Princess of Wales", not the Prince.
The things I remember about this street are - the church at the top on the right behind the Windwill pub being bombed during the last war. On the opposite side at its junction with Scholes was Reg Suttons gents outfitters. Behind the houses on the left {going towards Scholes} there was a very large factory which used to make the wooden soles for clogs. At the bottom of this street on the corner with Orchard Street was a pub called The Prince of Wales known as the 'bottom long-pull. the Windmill pub {all red tiled} was known locally as the {top long-pull}.
My great uncle Enoch Matthews was proprietor of the Wigan Hat Company at 9 Greenough Street prior to his death in 1939. Does anyone remember him?