Picture Post 1939. Kindly submitted by Ron Hunt.
Picture Post was a magazine that pioneered photojournalism, it was first published in 1938 by Edward G. Hulton. The magazine was an immediate success and after just four months was selling 1,350,000 copies a week.
In the magazine published on November 11th 1939, an interesting 9 page article about Wigan was included as a pictorial feature. The article titled "LIFE IN WIGAN" included text and 30 photographs of places and people not long after Orwell's visit to the town.
LIFE IN WIGAN:
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W I G A N |
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Pier, School and Park |
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Keep-Fit, Shopping Centre and Parish Church |
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The Territorials, Jimmie Sullivan, James Starr, The Rector and Major J.S.A. Walker |
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Mill Girl, Pit-head Baths, Municipal Committee |
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The Men Who Stand and Wait, The Men Who Dream About Coal |
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The Boy Who Wants to be a Miner, Shelters Against the Bombs, and Shelters Against the Rain |
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Evening Class, A Talk on Tactics in the Changing Room, In a Cotton Mill, A.R.P. Drill at Whelley School, Dancing at the Empress Hall |
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Cowheel Pie, A First-aid Squad Stands By, Wigan Library, Clog-Maker, Wigan Grammar School |
| Click any photograph for a larger view. |
