Wigan ex-pats (UK)

Comments: Used to live in Up Holland. Now a teacher in Andover, Hampshire.

I miss: I miss the 'Old' arcade. I used to think it was like an Aladdin's cave.

Comments: I used to live in Shevington. Worked at R.C.C. (Goose Green) and Carrington & Dewhurst (Eccleston). Went to St Maries Standish and Wigan Convent of Notre Dame. Now widowed and living in a small village near Market Rasen. I qualified as a teacher and worked mainly in Kent. 64 years old and still very fit and active in all aspects of village life. Have a sister and brother in Crook and Shevvy. Love to "talk" to someone from the past.

I miss: Lancashire hot pot.

Comments: I was born in Wigan but am now retired and living in Hertfordshire. I arrived here via Yorkshire, Singapore and Northern Ireland. I went to Beech Hill Primary School (I lived at 2 Laburnum Grove) and then to the Girls High School. After leaving school I worked in the Central Library in Rodney Steet.

I miss: Coltsfoot Rock. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Wigan Rugby League (we don't even get match reports in most of the Southern edition newspapers) But most of all "Pie-Eaters" I think we are unique!!

Comments: New Springs and Abram. Worked at Wigan Junction Colliery,Harbin's in Gollborn,and The British Homes Stores

I miss: pies,old market,old arcades,the market inn,central park,mesnes park,empress ballroom, ritz, court, county and princess cinemas.the working mans clubs which also included british leagions, and labour clubs.But most important - the PEOPLE.!!!

Comments: I was born and raised in Scholes within cheering sound of Central Park (alas now gone!) Later I lived in Worsley Mesnes, and after that Highfield. I left Wigan in 1977. I am now basking in retirement after many years in the NHS. It's all down here in London and my partner and I enjoy many and varied things including 'free stuff' at the Royal Academy of Music, lectures at the Royal Institution and at the various universities - and the theatres and pubs are good!

I miss: I only miss things fron way back - the old Wigan Public Library (with that big old fireplace in the entrance that was saved from Thicknesse Hall- was it Jacobean or earlier?- and the Children's Library. I used to sit on a huge round boulder (where the swimming pool is now) opposite the Children's Library on Saturday mornings, waiting for it to open. (Does anyone else remember that boulder?) I miss the old Market Hall although its replacement is not bad.

Comments: Born in Springfield, went to Beech Hill Primary and Grammar School. Now retired and living in Scotland. Brother to Wigan's best but least known poet.

I miss: UJMB's (now available in Sainsbury's!) Westheads curly aniseed rock. The Market Hall and Little Arcade and the cobbled Market Place. What replaced them is a monstrosity. Joe Greenwood's shop. Gregory's pies. Mitchin off from school to watch Bridget Bardot at the Pavilion(?). Frankie Howerd at the Hippodrome. Hot summers and lazy days at Bellingham.

Comments: I used to live in Shevvy. Went to Millbrook, Shevvy High and then Winstanley before going to Lancaster University. I now live in London and work as an accountant.

I miss: What I miss: - Greenalgh's steak and kidney pies, Friday nights round town, cheap beer, people that smile (they don't do that a lot down here!)