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Market Street, Wigan

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A Quiet Sunday Afternoon.
A Quiet Sunday Afternoon.
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 30457
Photograph taken on a quiet Sunday afternoon in the 1960's.

Comment by: DTease on 14th April 2018 at 23:44

Wigan was a very pleasant place to wander around in the days when Sunday meant that all the shops were shut and there was very little traffic on the roads. A stroll around town, a quiet pint in the Crofters Arms followed by a wander round Mesnes Park. Very pleasant.

Comment by: WILLY WACKUM on 15th April 2018 at 10:21

In a few years time Wigan will be like this in a Saturday afternoon.

Comment by: Barrie on 15th April 2018 at 10:30

Lowes shop at the top of the town and the Queens Hall somewhere on the right, where famous Brass Band concerts used to be played. Despite Sunday trading laws being relaxed now, some towns in the UK can be like that scene now at certain times. I often wonder sometimes how they make it pay opening on a Sunday.

Comment by: JOHNNY on 15th April 2018 at 12:20

View looking from Market Place. Lowes at top just past Crofters Arms and there was a Chinese on the right called Happy Palace with upstairs dining!

Comment by: Owd viewer on 15th April 2018 at 17:11

Also a restaurant called Pacific ocean on the right.

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 15th April 2018 at 19:36

The bus, stopped at the front of Lowe's, is hardly the outstanding point of interest of this b/w photo, yet 'red' is immediately associated with its livery ('nine shades of 'red' have been bravely put forward in response to Tom Sutch's photo - Item 29606').

Comment by: A.W. on 16th April 2018 at 10:19

Barrie, I too remember going to Grenadier Guards Band concerts at Queen's Hall, wonderful experience. The shop on the left used to be the Leyland Paint Shop.

Comment by: Dennis (Cadfael) Miller on 16th April 2018 at 13:34

My mother worked at that Layland Paints Store (Toll in the photo) during the 60s, she was manager for a time.

Comment by: Mr X on 4th May 2018 at 22:14

The old Wigan market hall was built in 1877, and its extensions that included the fruit market, and Petticoat Lane arcade with shops were built in 1954.

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