Pictures of Wigan

Some photo's of Wigan taken by me in the 70s

Lovely pic's Dougie. never seen Wigan so quiet

enjoyed the pictures Dougie. looks like they were taken very early on a quiet Sunday morning.

Yes it was a Sunday been to the wigan park with my lad, but if you look at any of my photos I take it looks quiet with very few people are cars on them

And not a scrap of litter on the floor

dougie

Would those photos been taken towards the very end of the 1970's I say that looking at a couple of the cars and the look of Wigan, shops, street furniture and road signs etc

If you look at Wigan then in those pictures, just prior to the recession of the 1980's and then look at a similar set of pictures taken in the early 1980's at the height of Maggie Thatcher’s recession you can see a big difference in the place, with closed down shops and more litter on the streets etc the place looked a lot rougher in the early 1980's

I would say your about right with the date but I didn't put any date are year on the photo's which I know you should and still don't

blinding pictures dougie, brings back so many memories.

Ecellent pics! When the town was a real, individual town, with proper streets and shops and no pointless shopping arcades...

Splendid pics, Dougie. Before the council tore ithe town's heart out.

Great pics. Thanks for posting. I recognise all of the locations ..... is number 5 (the canal side shot) .... the row of cottages next to the bridge on Pottery lane?

lovely pictures dougie, havent they ruined a lovely old town, it was as nice as chester anyday.

i can just re-call this wigan. i was only born in 1975 but these pics help you remember. the bottom fronts of the shops may change but the top half of the buildings usually dont

carol gr, pic no5 looks like the lockkeepers cottage in Chapel Lane.

Thanks for sharing those, Dougie.

Great pictures Dougie I love looking at pictures that show WIGAN when it truly was WIGAN

Lovely pictures Dougie,I think everyone on here agrees that the powers that be have ruined our lovely old town...It's had the heart ripped out of it,that's the only way I can describe it.

Good pictures dougie got my first television from rumbelows on weekly payments oh such good happy days then unlike now

i can remember calling in with my five bob every friday night ann, good old days.

TREES in Marketplace????
Gerrum chopped dern, thi do nowt.

great pictures

Lovely! Thankyou for sharing those with us.

Thank you dougie.. Great pictures..when Wigan was Wigan....

there,s no overturnning the mess them lot,have made of the town,it had character and individuality,bloody moronic council,sling em out.

douggie sorry ,i forgot to mention how much i enjoyed viewing your pics,just they aggravate me terribly ,to see the vandalism wrought by the idiots.

Well done lad, they've brought back loads of memories..

its not that empty at even at 3am now , was a lot cleaner then n safer

thanks very much,fantastic, made me so sad to see what i left behind,if only,

The one at Market PLace,was the shop on the corner,which is now The Moon,Civic's ?

Great memories by the way

Halifax building Society I think.

The building on the corner of Library Street - The Moon Under Water - was Halifax in the late '70s, in the early '70s it was Civic Stores, before that it was Broadmeads.

Thanks for the info there.

i always loved the marketsquare and owd market hall,the Park and Market Hotels,bus station, always vibrant,always summat going on.Btw brilliant pics and wish i could go back to 70's

dont let sledge see the rds so empty lol , wish wigan was still like that who said change is a good thing , lookin at pier where i used play as a kid even on the roofs after pigeons ,

I like the photo of the bottom of Makinsons arcade looking across to the outside market. Would have loved to see a photo the other way looking down to the old BHS as I am always trying to remember the shops down there.

chrisnich is that your boston , they great dogs my daughters has 1 with his best mate an english bull terrier the boston is the boss lol hes a wildax ,

Dougie can you upload them onto the Album?

First pic, wonder what the 'Cowlin Buildings' were built to sell?

wiganyankeeron---Dougie can you upload them onto the Album?

Ron--some was already on just uploaded the rest

super pictures, i remember it well, loads of character then, not the carbon copies like now.

Memory lane for sure

dougie,your pictures show just how quick change can be and it seems more so than ever these days.In my lifetime I have seen buildings put up and the same buildings demolished.They don't build 'em like they used to.

Thank you we are so lucky you decided to take these photos that Sunday morning. I feel very nostalgic. They have torn the heart out of the town. I don't live in Wigan anymore but I would shoot the town Planners. every time I visit something else has gone to be replcaed by more roads and ugly buildings.

Chrisnich if you stood at the bottom of the arcade facing the market and then looked to your right there used to be Open fish stalls and the B H Stores , and to the left passed the old Arcade as far as I can remember there were offices of Solicitors ,and then Conroys , and I think on the corner a Sweet shop
Rumbelows used to be in the 40/50s Nimans Jewellry shop they also had a smaller shop nearly opposite the The pub cannot remember the name of it but the boys Colin and Bill Cook had it . Wonderful pictures congratulations on recording the old town for posterity

After looking at the reaction to these photo's wish I had uploader them the same size as the first two, but was trying to save space in my way looking back it would have been a much better to display them bigger

Dougie I can't remember where Rumbelows was.

Cheers dougie ah memories