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Northern Soul list 3
Thought it was time to start a new thread to save scrolling.
Still had no time to updat... |
brian j |
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Sticky! |
EX DOWNALL GREENERS 19
HERE WE GO NUMBER 19
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bambam |
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1,705 |
28th Jun 2022, 23:46
whups |
Golborne colliery
Can anyone tell me how it got Kidglove as a name please? |
flaggy delf |
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32,854 |
28th Jun 2022, 14:17
whups |
St Helens Mining Tech On North Road
Anybody remember any of the teachers from St Helens Mining Tech on North Road? I can reme... |
GrahamK |
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7,236 |
25th Jun 2022, 13:12
bentlegs |
Help on Places and Genealogy.... Bolton's yard
Hi.
Appreciate knowledge/thoughts on a birth certificate actual location.
The certifi... |
Drew |
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23rd Jun 2022, 13:45
bentlegs |
Chapel st wigan.
Anyone know names of the pubs here in 1939 only got 137 William cunliffe.licensee |
christine marsden |
3 |
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22nd Jun 2022, 19:06
christine marsden |
Colliery Question
Grandfather was a pitman. If he lived in Scholes in 1926 onwards, which pit would he have ... |
mrs m |
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20th Jun 2022, 14:14
Tommy Two Stroke |
Askmy GP
Most surgeries want you to use Askmygp online. Our surgery uses set times to log onto this... |
PeterP |
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11th Jun 2022, 20:39
Handsomeminer |
EX DOWNALL GREENERS 18
HERE WE GO NUMBER 18
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bambam |
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24th May 2022, 20:27
bambam |
Savers shop
Savers in galleries does anyone know they have relocated .. |
anniedingle |
3 |
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14th May 2022, 19:59
bambam |
DEANERY HIGH SCHOOL
did anyone go to the deanery and leave in 1985? just wondering |
mamacass |
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10,476 |
13th May 2022, 15:03
Darren1966 |
B and M Wigan town centre
What a mess this once beautiful building is…shame on the owners…and how long has that ... |
roylew |
22 |
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11th May 2022, 23:45
bambam |
Gas Works, Princess Road, Ashton
Can anyone tell me when this ceased to function?
I seem to remember conversion to natur... |
ena malcup |
1 |
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25th Apr 2022, 12:41
Dagutd27 |
Bird i'th Hand Ormskirk Street Wigan
Hi I'm trying to get a photo of the Pub my Grandad owned in 1930. He was Albert Pilkington... |
kelvinmc |
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15th Apr 2022, 15:04
Tommy Two Stroke |
573 wigan road bryn/ ashton
Hi all you wiganners.I really hope someone can help me. I am going for a visit to Wigan a... |
rusty |
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14th Apr 2022, 15:38
dougie |
INGERSOLL-RAND HINDLEY
Anyone work at Ingersoll=Rand from 1964 to 1973. |
henry7 |
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3,198 |
25th Mar 2022, 22:36
tomplum |
EX DOWNALL GREENERS 17
HERE WE GO NUMBER 17
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bambam |
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25th Mar 2022, 20:33
bambam |
King Street Wigan
Julie McKiernan and Corrie Shelley have been commissioned by Streets Apart to develop
... |
Corrie Shelley |
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24th Mar 2022, 09:23
Corrie Shelley |
estate in ince
did anyone live on the estate in ince all the streets were named after places in the lake ... |
winnie |
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3,028 |
23rd Mar 2022, 22:01
winnie |
Atkinson's Row, Ince in Makerfield
Hi
Does anyone know where Atkinson's Row was. My family mostly lived on the Wigan side ... |
Miller60 |
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26th Feb 2022, 20:16
Pewfall |
Where was this shop?
I've added a photo showing a shop owned by John James Wych for several years in the 1920s.... |
StuartRal |
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24th Feb 2022, 21:06
tuddy |
Upholland Grammar School
Upholland Grammar Through the Ages by Nicola Gray
https://i50.servimg.com/u/f50/19/24/1... |
jo anne |
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23rd Feb 2022, 07:55
jo anne |
Cansfield high school
I remember when this school was called "the Secondary ", i left in 1978, my name is Ian Ch... |
peeweerug |
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9,006 |
22nd Feb 2022, 15:41
ena malcup |
Family history
I am trying to find my family on the 1911 censers .In 1916 they are living at Queen street... |
winnie |
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26th Jan 2022, 20:18
Pewfall |
NEW HOUSE' NEL PAN LANE
I had an occasion to have to go to Leigh Hospital the other day ,and i went via Hindley Gr... |
GOLDEN BEAR |
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17th Jan 2022, 14:53
GOLDEN BEAR |
Brock Mill farm. Haigh
Looking for info on above. My ancestors the Alkers farmed there in the late 1700s to early... |
christine marsden |
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8th Jan 2022, 18:58
christine marsden |
Gaffer, please help!
I gave wrong address I was searching for when you answered my query. Got mixed up with 402... |
soreen |
2 |
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4th Jan 2022, 17:33
soreen |
402, Wakefield Rd.Dewsbury
Hi, Had great help from this site.Can I ask another question, please? Can u tell me who wa... |
soreen |
3 |
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3rd Jan 2022, 18:12
soreen |
Christine Marsden
Hello Christine i believe you have info on the burials of ST. MATHEWS
Highfield i would b... |
GOLDEN BEAR |
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2nd Jan 2022, 13:11
GOLDEN BEAR |
Holland
Was there a place called Holland in the 1700s in Wigan or was it upholland? |
christine marsden |
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31st Dec 2021, 09:48
PeterP |
Crank and Burtons
Do you remember it ?,behind Browns dentists ,you could park in the yard at the side,when i... |
dave b |
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29th Dec 2021, 17:01
mickadoptedwiganer |
Wiganworld Forums
Instead of using this Communicate section. It would be more advantageous, and quicker for ... |
wiganyankeeron |
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28th Dec 2021, 13:35
tuddy |
Newfoundland Colliery Worthington
Who ran it, when was it a working pit, and was there a rail connexion? Can't find it menti... |
flaggy delf |
27 |
3,585 |
19th Dec 2021, 11:02
zenith |
Prefabs, Greenhey, Kitt Green in the 50's
Has anyone any photos / street scenes of Greenhey?
When I tell my granddaughter about the... |
millykate |
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5,893 |
13th Dec 2021, 22:39
KSBUICK49 |
DECORATORS ?
Well for the second time of asking WW's do any of you know of a good /decent WALLPAPER /HA... |
GOLDEN BEAR |
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26th Nov 2021, 16:30
bentlegs |
Brook House Greenhouse's and Garden, Highfield
Hi all,
I am currently researching some ruins that are situated in Blundell's Wood, Hig... |
Fursty Ferret |
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25th Nov 2021, 19:33
Fursty Ferret |
Irene Wyatt (Stationery )John England’s 1960s
Nostalgia makes me seek to connect with old work colleagues
It was a nondescript job th... |
kameras |
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22nd Nov 2021, 16:30
cindy |
EX DOWNALL GREENERS 16
HERE WE GO NUMBER 16
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bambam |
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15th Nov 2021, 18:46
bambam |
Questions re Wrightington pre NHS funding... etc
Good morning from the island...
Hard at work on my presold autobio.
Which will of cour... |
Islander |
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11th Nov 2021, 11:49
whups |
temperance bars
I wonder if anyone remembers a temperance bar in King St in the 1950s?
I am sure I rememb... |
Kathy T |
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4th Nov 2021, 14:28
GOLDEN BEAR |