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

I have recently read my maternal grandmother's account of when she was young and she remembers how this was a huge event in the late twenties and early thirties. She would dress up and her brother would wear his suit and walk with the St John's parish (where they went to school) rather than St Joseph's as they should have done. Their mother never took part despite being able to. My grandmother's paternal side of the family would watch in the St Patrick's parish