Wigan Album

The beginning of the end,Wigan has been going down hill ever since :-(

This photo brings back memories of my Dad buying me a pet rabbit from one of these stalls,thanks,Ron.

Not really the beginning of the end, Janet.
That was 15 years earlier, when they demolished the Old Arcade, and Commercial Yard. Vandalism.

You're probably right Mick.... I've been gone from Wigan a long time now and forget dates/ years and stuff......Late 40s to early 70s was my time knowing Wigan, I loved it in those years...it's so sad to see it as it is now...

Only go into Wigan town centre now when I absolutely have to! When I see how it is now (soulless, dirty and so many weirdos knocking about that you never feel particularly safe, even in daytime) and then think of how it used to be - so sad.

Derekb..I totally agree,I could cry when I think how it used to be,and I'm sure we aren't the only ones,the other week we had a look in the history shop in Library Street..and came back up King Street,my lord,it is depressing..if that is what they call progress as someone once suggested then they want to go back to the drawing board...and fast before any more damage is done to our little town.

this photo reminds me of the person calling out THREE PAIRS FOR SIXPENCE BLACK OR BROWN would not be allowed today me thinks with all this PC rubbish.

Glad to see your comments Maureen, but it seems to me that there is not much point in going back to the drawing board, since the damage has been done. We will never get back places like the Commercial Yard which needed to be, but could have been, regenerated and still have kept their character. I am on record elsewhere on this website as being no fan of Victorian/Edwardian architechture and would happily take a wrecking ball tomorrow to the old Town Hall in King St, Gerrard Winstanley House in Crawford St, Wallgate railway station at street level, but I equally dislike some of the monstrosities such as Brocol House, Marketgate etc erected in the last 30/40 years or so.