Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
OLD DOG, MARKET PLACE
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OLD DOG, MARKET PLACE
Photo: keith
Photo: keith
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Item #: 35593
Item #: 35593
Three Wigan Album photos, colourised and all related to the long gone Old Dog in the Market Place. Top one shows the whole of the front of the building, the bottom two show a close up of the frontage and the third one shows the side entrance to the pub. The wall opposite, on the left, belonged to the Empire Cinema, their one time manager was the ever affable Dick Barnes, who I knew (when I was a young teen) in the early 1950’s and he was a regular at the Crispin Arms, Birkett bank.
Comment by: Veronica on 4th February 2025 at 08:48
It’s tragic the history that’s been wiped out. I’m surprised there’s any left. If it wasn’t for the Parish Church there would be hardly anything preserved. A lot of heads should have been knocked together in the sixties. More should have been done.
Comment by: tom on 4th February 2025 at 12:29
remember dick barnes he used to to in
st catherines boys club for a game of billiards he was a good player think he was e friend of bob valentine who run the club it was on the rec was a member for
years
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