Wigan Album

I remember the broadsheet Observer being printed at Woods st, on my travels to Edmonds Walkers. It came out on Fridays then.

In it's hayday, the Wigan Observer at Woods Street, had a circulation of 50,000 copies a week, the biggest in the country for a paid-for local weekly newspaper.

Always an excellent read, and then, an excellent contributory factor, for putting across the shovel, to blow the fire up. What would H, and S, make of that, in this day, and age.

The broadsheet Wigan Observer, great read each Friday.
Always something interesting to read.
Albert yes, and great to get the coal fire going too.

Colin Where is the Observer printed today?

The Wigan Observer started life at Rowbottom Square in the Town centre, then at Woods Street, lower Wallgate (the papers best years) after Woods St closed, Central Lancashire Printers, Martland Mill, then Broughton Printers at Fullwood, and now Newsprinters Knowsley. Where next...watch this space.

Just to point out:The Wigan Observer was family owned at Rowbottom Square from 1853-1966. Woods Street from 1966-1984. John Dakeyne Wigan Observer's MD blue printed the Woods Street printing and publishing plant in 1960, well before United Newspaper took over the family business in 1965. Now the paper's printed by contract printers.
The paper will never see the likes of Woods St ever again. The paper was printed and published at Wigan by Wigan people who cared for the town.

As I said on 13 December 2016 (watch this space) the Wigan Observer is NOW printed at Dinnington print centre, in Sheffield...around 90 miles away. To think the powers that be keep saying "we need more vehicles off our roads". The paper was born and bred in Wigan, published in Wigan and printed in Wigan from 1853 till the 1990s.
The best years for the Wigan observer was from 1966-1984.