Handbags   (The sad, the bad and the ugly. Non-productive stuff here.)

Belting place, but I think the shop is a modern addition.

I mentioned earlier ^^^^^ the cobblers' automatons.

During the time of the introduction of the Poll Tax, the little chap went missing from Hallgate.

Mr Shryhane wrote a few lines about it in his Wigan World column in the Wigan Observer.

Some bright spark (not I) wrote to the paper suggesting the little fellow had been taken away for non payment.