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

We have a friend who was a bobby on the beat at the time of the demolition of the Legs of Man..at the weekend the boss of the Irish navvies asked him if he wouldn't mind keeping his eye on things until they came back on the Monday morning..which he did,on the Monday he went in the building to see how things were,the boss told him that as they were knocking a wall down they found another room that had a long wooden table with wooden chairs all the way round..a type of rostrum with two books which contained records...i.e..Bed and Breakfast one halfpenny..everything was caked in dust,so obviously hadn't been used for God knows how long..he went back a few days later to see the progress and asked where the chairs and tables and the books were the navvie boss just said "oh we burned them"..needless to say he was appalled,so an awful lot of history was lost in that fire..so who knows,there might have been a passageway all the way down,we shall probably never know.