Musicians from many different genres, both home-grown and visiting, feature in this medley of pictures dating from th...
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This delve into the Wigan Today archives has produced some fabulous pictures of sporting events that we covered in th...
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Passengers piled onto carriages pulled by one of Britain’s most famous railway engines when it called off at Wigan to...
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This album of pictures takes readers back three and a half decades as we see what was making Wigan’s news in 1989.
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There were laughs a plenty as the Sons of the Desert hosted their annual Wigan homage to the world’s greatest ever co...
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A feature-length film about the history of Wigan’s St Wilfrid’s Church has been released to raise much-needed funds f...
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This gallery rolls back the clock four decades to a less politically correct time when beauty contests were all the r...
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The Wigan Evening Post’s Down Your Way used to drop in on borough shopping streets and precincts each week to meet so...
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Drink in this selection of photos from the Wigan Today vaults showing borough pubs, some still standing, many long go...
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Readers love our retro galleries of partying Wiganers from yesteryear so here’s another little collection of pictures...
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A new school year has been getting under way this week and so we thought we’d seek out a few pictures of life at one ...
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It’s back-to-school week for many and some of those youngsters will be entering a classroom for the first time. We’ve...
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Memories of 1979 will be summoned up by this picture gallery from news events 45 years ago.
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Memories of 1979 will be summoned up by this picture gallery from news events 45 years ago.
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Our latest foray into the Wigan Evening Post’s Down Your Way picture archives produces more images of shop and salon ...
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Wigan’s history is a long and deep one, stretching back to Roman times and beyond.
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There will be a rare chance for an in-depth look around one of Wigan’s most precious buildings this month as it embra...
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This collection of pictures from the Wigan Today archive takes readers back 50 years to what was making the news in 1...
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Before the Museum of Wigan Life, we had the History Shop on Library Street where all manner of cultural events and hi...
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Here’s a fascinating gallery of pictures which show what was making the news in Wigan 60 years ago in 1964.
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It’s always interesting to see familiar places from unfamiliar angles; and when you have a drone camera, like Wigan T...
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Here’s a jolly collection of pictures taken by the Wigan Post’s photographer for the paper’s old On the Town photo fe...
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These archive images take us back more than half a century to show who and what were making Wigan newspaper headlines...
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Wigan hosts another of its immensely popular Comic Cons next month (September 28) and to get folk in the mood, we’ve ...
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Victims of one of Wigan’s worst mining catastrophes have been remembered by the community where they perished.
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Everyone has strong memories of their education, whether or not their schools are still standing. In this instance th...
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Nothing stirs more powerful memories among older Wigan people than the area’s proud mining heritage. Along with cotto...
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For those readers with shorter memories, it is difficult to visualise how massively Westwood Power Station, and parti...
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Here’s a lovely gallery of archive pictures from the village of Shevington taken between the 1960s and 1980s.
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Here’s a lovely gallery of archive pictures from the village of Shevington taken between the 1960s and 1980s.
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Here’s a selection of photographs from our archives of people at work, whether they be in shops, mills or an artist’s...
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Take a walk down Wigan's Memory Lane with these pictures from our archives all dating from 1971.
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We’ve hot-footed our way through the Wigan Today picture archives for this collection showing local folk, young and o...
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Haigh Woodland Park has been a magnet for families for generations and one of the fun part of visits there has often ...
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We all have our places that we call special: somewhere to get away either for excitement or peace and quiet. So we th...
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This delve into the Wigan Today picture library brings back memories of events held at and by a number of Wigan churc...
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Having basked in warm sunshine for a few days, it was almost inevitable the weather would take a turn for the worse. ...
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It is more than 30 years since the magnificent St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Seminary was at work. The Roby Mill institu...
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Here’s a charming and sometimes surprising collection of pictures from the Wigan Today archives of our town from many...
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