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

The Little Arcade, The Old Arcade or to give it its correct tile, The Market Arcade, was such a special part of Wigan. It had an atmosphere all its own and I recall Gorner's Café with great joy! There was a shop that sold strings of toffee-bags, and my Mam sometimes bought me some of the three-cornered ones to play "shops" with.....I have strings of paper bags hanging in my kitchen to this day. I also recall a shop that sold "loose" fireworks from a box outside the door.....can you imagine that happening today?! As you say, Momac, it had a kind of magic!