Photos of Wigan
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Photo-a-Day Archive
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Photo-a-Day (Thursday, 1st May, 2025)
A Sad Goodbye
The desperate dereliction of Standishgate.
Woolworth's, Marks and Spencer, Debenham's, The Galleries all gone.
Will they ever manage to put it all together again? Maybe, but it won't be the same will it?
At lease there are small signs of something being built up instead of being pulled down, but it will never be the Wigan that we all knew. Some people may say that it's a good thing to replace everything, but I think it's a good thing to keep some of the past to remind us all of where we came from.
As we have found to our cost in Wigan, new is not always better.
Photo: Dennis Seddon (Sony DSC-HX99)
Woolworth's, Marks and Spencer, Debenham's, The Galleries all gone.
Will they ever manage to put it all together again? Maybe, but it won't be the same will it?
At lease there are small signs of something being built up instead of being pulled down, but it will never be the Wigan that we all knew. Some people may say that it's a good thing to replace everything, but I think it's a good thing to keep some of the past to remind us all of where we came from.
As we have found to our cost in Wigan, new is not always better.
Photo: Dennis Seddon (Sony DSC-HX99)
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