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Market Hall, Indoors

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MARKET HALL
MARKET HALL
Photo: Frank Orrell
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Item #: 32978
One of Wigan market's longest serving stallholders, Alice Hitchen, just prior to closure of the old market hall in December 1987.

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 4th March 2021 at 09:51

Alice, along with many well-remembered stallholders, appears on a dvd made by Geoff Shryhane just after the Market Hall was demolished. I have a copy and it is brilliant to look back on the stalls and stallholders that most of us remember well.....Alice Hitchen on electrical, Harold Bradshaw's Menswear, Gibson and Young and many more. I believe you can watch it on Youtube.

Comment by: Edna on 4th March 2021 at 12:32

These are a great set of photos Frank, of Wigan Market.I think we have almost forgotten how really busy it was.Great days.

Comment by: P.B. on 4th March 2021 at 15:14

Alice used to live in Partington Street,just off Scot Lane,at the start of what was then old Marsh Green before the housing estate was built.

Comment by: Medical Maverick on 4th March 2021 at 22:17

The lovely Alice ... I worked on her stall on Saturdays when I was young. Most of my time was spent looking busy. I vaguely remembered her husband working there too but he wasn't there one day and I was too nervous to ask why. I presumed he'd passed away.

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