General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Not being one to contradict the Tonkerator, when they were building the new (old Olympic!) swimming pool down Library Street, they had to dig down into the foundations.

The old Pavilion Cinema had stood there for many years before then and was closed and demolished in the late 50s due to subsidence. I heard that (don't know if it's true or not) when the JCBs went in and started digging, they found many skeletons, and the story was that a mine had collapsed and killed them - OR - they'd discovered an ancient burial ground. So maybe there was a pit IN Wigan a couple of centuries ago.

Does anyone know the real story behind this, or is it just an Urban Myth?