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I think the building is called "Bank Chambers" and was the offices for the Bank which fronted on Wallgate somewhere near the Clarence. I think it may have been Williams Deacons Bank but could be wrong

the building to the right is the princes

was not the Princess on the left of the bank looking at the photo, that was the last cinema I went into in the 60s !!

Down the tunnel at the back of Williams Deacons Bank (Bank Chambers) was the Wigan Register Office, which I think that facade is. On the right, Princes Cinema, & on the left Harry Wallworks barbers, behind the General Post Office.
Harrys' shop is now on Hallgate opposite the Anvil (ex All Saints Tavern)

Clarence Yard?

If you look on Google Street view, the little alley way is still there. The building to the left which fronts onto King St West, is now called Westward House

This building is the Post Office,prior to 1959 this was where mail was sorted and the front part of the building in Wallgate was and still is the Post Office.

In 1914 the 1/5th (Wigan) Manchesters Battalion T.F. had their HQ here, Bank Chambers. A to E Companies.

This is not Clarence Yard, which ran from Wallgate by the front door of the Princes Cinema, exiting on King St West.
If on turning right at the front of the cinema(from Wallgate) it would lead you to the top of this yard, which turning left towards the camera position joined up with Clarence Yard as it met King St West

As Art says the Clarence Yard runs to the right, across the front of the Princes, and out onto Wallgate.
As bobbies in the town centre, my colleagues and I always knew the stretch shown in the photo as 'Bank Passage' or Bank Chambers Passage'. This was when bobbies still had legs, and were not stuck fast to the driver's seat of a car.

If you stand on Wallgate facing the GPO, the tunnel on the left, now closed by a barred Gate, is the bank Chambers.
½ way down it veers to the left, & a large double door is on the right facing you. That was the door to the register office, up a short stairway, to the room in the pic showing an air conditioning unit.....
How do I know?........I got married there in 1959..;o)

This alley is down the side of that brown office block type building called Westward House,don't know what the building at the end is/was though.

And looking at the aerial shot on google street view,it seems to be attached to the building next door to the post office,which is the Baa club-is that still open?

Looks like the brewery behind The Last Orders (used to be called the Bee Hive I think)