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

I received a message from a very helpful Customer Services Assistant at the Museum of Wigan Life who advised me that the newspapers are on microfilm and the one which had my great-grandmother's obituary was the Wigan Examiner 20 February 1937. My grandfather died a few months later, in August 1937 - it must have been a sad year for the family.

It would probably be quite expensive to digitise the Wigan newspaper collection. It would be great if it could be done.