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

This thread brought back so many great memories of childhood , I can't thank all the WW contributors enough, I can even admit it brought tears to my eyes.
I feel that the child of today misses out on such simple and fun adventures we all had as children in the 1940's and 50's, such innocent enjoyment, our parents must have been and were gems, had no money but never felt deprived of anything. On reflect I can now see parents of that time going short on all sorts of things to make sure their children were happy and healthy..... Good times :)