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History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

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John Wood & Sons Ltd
I am from the Peak District Mines Historical Society in Derbyshire, we study most types of...
Boswedden 3 1,239 Sticky!
King Street Wigan - Heritage Action Zone
Please follow the link for information on "King Street -The Street that Was" https://em...
Ozzydog 2 482 Sticky!
Wigan Borough Heritage Action Zone
Please follow the link to find out more about the Heritage Action Zones in Wigan and Tylde...
Ozzydog 2 386 Sticky!
Worsley mesnes parks
Hii don't know if I remember rightly but got in my head has a child they use be a park for...
Tiger54 1 237 31st Aug 2024, 22:58
mollie m
1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment WW1
To all I am writing a book on the 1/5th Manchester Battallion. To help write the book I...
gingerfreak 9 1,248 18th Jun 2024, 07:39
retep1949
Back Scholes
Hi Does anyone have any information about a place called Back Scholes? I had done old f...
JGWilson83 - 498 26th Feb 2024, 11:53
JGWilson83
The Park Show
Hello Can anyone help with memories, or even facts!, about The Park Show. Hoping to incl...
psharp17 6 637 18th Jan 2024, 12:08
JR
Pub in Coppull Lane
Does anyone have any positive info here? Long ago when I was a youngster my dad (who orig...
JR 7 686 31st Dec 2023, 18:23
JR
Macfarlane's/ Mcfarlanes Foundry
Does anyone know anything about this foundry in Wigan? Only reference I can find is to a S...
flaggy delf 14 5,932 24th Nov 2023, 06:48
Perkin Warbeck
Kirkpatricks,Hindley
My interest is Alfred Evans of Hindley Green who worked as Cashier at Kirkpatricks and I a...
646abs.Tony - 240 2nd Oct 2023, 20:11
646abs.Tony
Wigan Newspaper Archives for 1937.
My cousin sent me a copy of a newspaper cutting of his grandmother's obituary which featur...
Winstanley 8 800 2nd Aug 2023, 22:20
winnie
mine shafts
Depending which books you read it is estimated that there were 3/5 thousand mine shafts in...
PeterP 9 590 3rd Jul 2023, 18:20
JR
Wigan history - storm of 923AD
I wonder if anyone can shed light on this. In David Sinclair's History of Wigan Vol. 1 (1...
JR 8 855 25th Apr 2023, 16:55
JR
Old Wigan memorabilia charity sale
*For Charity* I have got some early 1900’s medicine and beer bottles, very rare and vint...
JakeDawber23 - 307 22nd Feb 2023, 01:02
JakeDawber23
COACHROAD GOOSE GREEN!
I have tried to find out via Wigan Council just who owns and is responsible for the mainte...
GOLDEN BEAR 16 893 8th Feb 2023, 18:14
tonker
HIGHFIELD INFANTS SCHOOL GONE !!
Well i see after nearly a century i noticed they have bulldozed my very first school Highf...
GOLDEN BEAR 5 488 15th Jan 2023, 15:57
GOLDEN BEAR
What is the oldest house/hall/building in Wigan
With recent news of Haigh Hall being refurbished I wondered if it is the oldest building i...
blackrodweaver 56 7,772 26th Dec 2022, 13:44
JR
highfield infants school
Just thought i would ask to see if anyone on here went to to the infants school highfield ...
GOLDEN BEAR 8 1,736 27th Oct 2022, 15:40
GOLDEN BEAR
Market Hall Clock
Was it presereved? [url=http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=1400&galle...
dostaf 9 2,656 23rd Oct 2022, 20:28
jo anne