Wigan Album
Minorca Building
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Photo: VeronicaB
Item #: 35048
Thomas Wall, letter press printers and book binders. He was also the Post Master of Wigan. He founded the Wigan Observer and District Advertiser newpaper at Rowbottom Square in 1853.
Thomas Wall died in 1904 age 88.
In the link below and thanks to Malcolm Ryding and Wigan Building Preservation Trust is a comprehensive description of the life of Thomas Wall in Wigan.
https://www.wiganlocalhistory.org/articles/life-of-thomas-wall-family-founder-of-the-wigan-observer
This must be where I would go with my Grandfather, I sat on a high stool at a counter while he spoke to a man.
I found out later in life that my grandfather wrote articles for a mining magazine so perhaps it was this printers.
On second thoughts, I feel the printers we went to was up in The Wiend...anyone know if there was a printers office up there ?
Helen, it was Sidebottom's Printers, his first name was Ezra and apparently on looking at searches on here, he and his family lived at Kilhey Court Worthington.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=25184&gallery=Wiend&page=1