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Market Square
Market Square
Photo: Maurice
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Item #: 29071
The work had just started on the new development.

Comment by: Daisy on 21st February 2017 at 18:47

I remember parking here when I worked at John England , many moons ago

Comment by: paulw on 21st February 2017 at 19:05

Happy memories when the Fair came to town and took over the whole of the Market Square, can still smell the black peas.

Comment by: Maureen on 21st February 2017 at 19:06

I wonder where all those cobbles ended up..to think our grandparents tread on those..how I wish I had a couple of them.

Comment by: Ellen on 21st February 2017 at 19:30

Wow! I just had a flashback of going into Smith's to make the arrangements for my flight to Canada in 1966!

Comment by: Helen of Troy on 21st February 2017 at 19:31

I remember this cobbled space being covered by Wigan Fair back in the late 1940s early 50s ,busy with people,lights,colour....alive !

Comment by: Mrs Denise Simpson on 21st February 2017 at 20:33

So many memories of this car park, I used to walk this way on the way to school, also I can remember when the fair used to be there, long time ago.

Comment by: Tony G on 21st February 2017 at 20:37

Walking over, going to the Deanery in the 70s

Comment by: Veronica B on 21st February 2017 at 21:01

You could hardly move on here on Whit Monday when 5 parishes congregated plus the bands and the banners. Something that stays with you forever.

Comment by: tuddy on 21st February 2017 at 21:34

Wasn't the Christmas tree on the square at one time?

Comment by: gideonfel on 22nd February 2017 at 08:50

I remember being on one of the fair's rides [I think it was the big wheel] in the late fifties and watching Wigan RL coach make its way down Market Street with the challenge cup! I'd give anything to travel back to those times for just one day! Anyone got a time machine going cheap?

Comment by: A.W. on 22nd February 2017 at 12:18

Tuddy, yes, the Christmas Tree was on the Market Square, usually on the Market Street side near the end of the Petticoat Lane/Leyland Paint Shop arcade.

Comment by: Cyril on 22nd February 2017 at 15:02

Maureen, the majority of those sett cobbles ended up as the foundations for the Council Building Department offices at the bottom of Christopher Street Ince, lorries were coming all day dumping them to fill in what I was told was once an old railway sidings embankment.

Comment by: Maureen on 22nd February 2017 at 15:45

Thank you Cyril..I wish I had been there as I say just to have a couple of them...thank you again.

Comment by: Kenee on 23rd February 2017 at 10:20

That's a bit of a walk Daisy! When I worked at John Englands I used to park at John Englands.

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