Wigan Album

Roy Hurst, I believe, quit Wigan when the old Market Hall closed, just like all of us who were Council tenants, being ripped off by the unholy alliance between the miner's union, Wigan MBC and French Kier, we all stopped paying rent for our commercial space when the council started dsimultaneous road work on the four road into town, the idea being to financially cripple all our businesses just before the compulsory purchase was executed.
Roy I believe went to Africa, his two grown children remained in Wigan, but I don't know what they did after the closure.

Hi David I think he died not long after he moved from the Market.

I'm still friends with Karen his daughter

Judith, ask her will she honour my £5.00 worth of vouchers?

I seem to remember Roy Hurst died suddenly, a while before the old Market Hall closed.
He loved travel and used to holiday in what where then very exotic places, and I was told he died as a result of a virus/illness he caught on a holiday.

Roy had an aeroplane. We used to go to thile of man just for a night out

Yes Ron, you're right, Roy did say to me, after one of his flights to South Africa, that he would settle there when it is all over, (meaning the compulsory purchase), but he did die and I think he was in Africa at the time. We had a lovely portrait of Karen, that my assistant Ikbal created while working on his qualifications panel.

Ron,
Firstly, only just come across this photograph via Brian's answer to my post - which he kindly typed a link.
With regards to some of the previous information:
- 'Roy Hurst, I believe, quit Wigan when the old Market Hall closed'.
- 'Hi David I think he died not long after he moved from the Market.'
Roy did not move from the market and neither did his music business. I strongly believe, Roy died, possibly as a result of malaria, before Wigan Market Hall closed down. Roy's death was totally unexpected and a very sad occasion. Mick is quite correct in what he stated.
Sadly, Roy died far too young - he was only in his fifties - and it was a total shock to the people that knew him well.
Roy's son and daughter ran the stall for a time and possibly up to the time of the 'Market Hall' closing down.
If I were you, I would keep the 'EMI Record Tokens with that famous Roy Hurst stamp' as memorabilia and certainly as a fond memory of both Wigan Market Hall and the well-known man and stall.