Post Card Home

These are some postcards the children of Wigan wrote as if they were on the front line in WW1.
This is what they thought the soldiers would have sent home. Some of these were read out at the renaming of the
Children Library at Ashton in Makerfield Wigan.


Tia – Marsh Green school


Louise Yates -- St Richards Atherton


Olivia Bell – St Pauls Wigan Council


Catherine Grady – St Bernadette’s Shevington


Thomas Mobbs – Bedford St Thomas


Harry Dean Sheppard – St Mathews Highfield

Jaynee Meadows – St Peters, Hindley


James Robinson – Winstanley CP


Lewis Wogan – St Catherine’s Wigan

Olipa Sichilima – Hindley J & I

Charlotte Kirton – St Georges, Tyldesley

Luke Silver – Park Lee, Atherton


Amy Mathews - Ince St Mary's