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

Hi everyone.We will ignore the troll he may go back to his cave.!!
Well done erontquay you certainly did your homework.
I worked in the weaving shed at Eckersleys for 25 years and I was the weaving manager for the last 12 of those years before taking up a similar job here in Australia.As each mill closed down the ledgers and documents were passed on to the next working mill and so on until they were handed to me being the only mill still open.I was contacted by the council Archivist saying he had found out Eckersleys was one of the oldest in the country and did I have any historical ledgers or documents.To cut a long story short he said I had an Aladins cave and I allowed him to take and store in the councils care quite a lot of stuff which can be viewed by historians or anyone interested The shop in Library St.has them on comp.if anyone cares to look through them.Sorry if I bored anyone