Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
Standishgate
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Standishgate, Wigan.
Photo: Ron Hunt
Photo: Ron Hunt
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Item #: 1858
Item #: 1858
Standishgate, Wigan. Scanned from an old postcard.
Comment by: Colin Traynor on 12th March 2024 at 09:17
Love this picture Ron which captures the beautiful ornate decorative plaster work on the face of the hotel, I think known as ‘pargetting’, now very much a lost craft.
This was before the craze in the early 1900’s for covering everything up with the ‘Mock Tudor’.
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