History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

Many thanks to Peter and to Anne. I didn't know about the Pemberton library. I think the library that Anne mentions on Station road is the one I'm thinking of. As I picture it, it was red brick like so many buildings in Wigan and had "Carnegie Children's Library" etched in stone on the front. It seems a shame that it has gone, so I hope the Wiend library is a worthy replacement. I understand that Andrew Carnegie's libraries (worldwide there were over 2,500 of them!) were often built in places with which he had been associated but I know of no link with Wigan.