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Wigan Pier Fun Day (Early 1980s)
Wigan Pier Fun Day (Early 1980s)
Photo: Lawrence Thorpe
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Item #: 19078
Another early 1980s photo taken from pottery road overbridge of the wigan pier funday.

This view is looking towards westwood before the area became a tourist attraction in the mid 1980s

Trencherfield mill is on the left

Comment by: Rev David Long on 3rd December 2011 at 08:13

428 boats flocked to Wigan for the Inland Waterways Association's Annual National Rally over the August Bank Holiday weekend. 50,000 visitors came to enjoy the spectacle.

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