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A real good site showing photo history of our town and the new gallery show's how wigan is today and contains photo's that we could be looking back on in twenty years in books.

HINDLEY GREEN IT IS :-)

just like to add we are in hindley green --not hindley i agree with one of your members its about time post office and others recogise where we are got that off my chest what about sat result stuffing those convicts from tuther side of world
pity gb lads in the league coudnt do the same eh!

Fascinating to see the streets,pubs and surrounding countryside, but where are the people? 35 years ago I lived in Wigan,so I am curious to see what has happened since then. Thank you, I will come back for more!

I would like to point out that streets such as Swan Lane, Long Lane and many others are not in Hindley but they are in Hindley Green maybe not the biggest place on earth but it does have its own name pity the so called experts from Wigan who run this site have never heard of it.


Response: Sorry Ethan, but the so called experts who run the site are singular... Brian! Blame me ;o) I've heard of Hindley Green. The names of the streets were taken from a Wigan AtoZ map.

My parents grew up in Wigan in the 1890s-1920s in Brook Lane. Visited in 2001. Loved it! We are returning in May 2004. Can anyone write me via email and suggest places of interest that I may visit IN WIGAN and surrounding areas. We are interested in a "private-Taxi" tour one day. Thanks for writing.

Logged on for a quick look, and ended up here for hours, need to come back and find out more. i have done some research a few years ago on my family history, and then i left it alone, your site might make me dig it out, i do have some details on seddon,s maloney, jolley and liptrot families if any one is looking for any of these. great site, i will be back!!

This page is awesome! My mum is from wigan, and I still have family there (including the mayor himself). I love the city and hope to return soon, just came out of interest!

Wigan did have a speedway team called the warriors i think .I am good friends with one of their former riders called colin smith..he is the captain of the coventry veterans speedway team for whom i also ride .. my mother was born in burscough just a few miles from wigan ....i also share my birthday with george formby...if anyone has any pictures or artifacts of wigan speedway i would be most interested
..ronald.jones57@ntlworld.com

Excellent site, will return, was looking for ancesters, but no luck so far.

Um, correct me if i'm wrong. But it seems to me that lil' ol' Bryn has been forgotten about.We DO have a history but we are nowhere in the history books as Ashton is.There must be photo's somewhere, surely somebody, somewhere can give me pic's or information on the area (via this site). HELP ... we are being swallowed up by Ashton ...

I STILL LIVE IN WIGAN N WILL NEVER MOVE COZ I LOVE PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! N WARRIORS

I'm glad i visited this website as i was doing an R.E. project and managed to get pictures of st. maries r.c. church.

This is a good site.I have posted notices to try and contact any Browitts in Wigan as we may be related as my Grand father was Born in Wigan,as were my father and his brothers and sisters.My grandfather was killed inWW1

Its fantastic, cannot say enough about the content. Anyone having any more info on Fairhurst Hall, origin of name etc please
Also researching names Fairhurst, Sewart, Sewell, Stewart, Stuart if anyone interested please.
Many Thanks.

With regard to the posting regarding heather small,how can she be a famous wiganer,when we all know she is from manchester.:o)

This is one of the best sites i have seen on wigan i could sit here all day just lookin at pics, the only thing is you have missed out is the uncle joes song so hears a lil bit.......

Uncle Joe's mint Balls keep you all aglow
Give 'em to your grannie and watch the beggar go
Away with coughs and sniffles, take a few in hand
Suck 'em and see, you'll agree
They're the best in all the land

I had a girl her name was May in passion she were lackin'
Fed 'er with whisky to make 'er frisky,
still she wouldn't get crackin'
So I gave her an Uncle Joe's Mint Ball to get 'er all aglow
Now she combs the streets of Wigan, looking for Uncle Joe!

The RSPCA have bought six tons of Uncle Joe's
To give to all the animules to keep 'em all aglow
Our budgie now is six foot tall, the cat is eight foot three
And all the poor brass monkeys are as happy as can be

Walsh/ Fisher - anyone with these surnames please get in touch, would like more pictures of Whelley and walking days, and history re control of churches and also info re put down of catholics.

I cant belive you have not got Heather Small of M-People fame in your "famous wiganers" section, narried to a wigan rugby great and owns 2 houses here! and why am i not on it, im rather famous down king st on friday nights, just ask about the lad who always ends up in an ambulance! thats me!!

Interested to see if any family traces of Penks, Bradley, Winstanley, Greenall. My grandparents were Harry and Elizabeth (Linda) Penk (maternal), Jim and Betty Fearnley (paternal), parents are Clifford and Jean Winstanley. We are from Orrell/Pemberton area