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My mother is from the Ashton/Bryn area (Whitledge Green area). My family and I have visited often through the years an aunt and uncle who lived on Old Wigan Road - close to the Library. Thank you for the site and all the goodies I have found so far. It has brought back many fond memories.

Great site. Very useful for my genealogical research. Keep up the good work.

As an exile I have been searching for such a site for sometime-it has to be the best web site I have come across and it has given me great pleasure in viewing many of the wonderful photographs. Very nostalgic too.

A very interesting site. Would like to see some info on the valley at beech hill.

Looking for any information on John Longman who was living in Wigan in 1960.

Hi,
Does anyone know about my mother's family, the Ricketts? They were from Wigan. Helen Ricketts, my grandmother, was born in 1932.
Also, does anyone have any info on an event where my grandmother's cousin saved a lot of miners by holding up a collapsing mine roof with his back? if so, email me @ stephensmith86@hotmail.com

Hugely entertaining, informative site with many superb photographs. I lived on Wigan Lane (Greenhill) between 1971 and 1979. The pictures bring back so many very happy memories. Alas, it seems that two of my schools - Gidlow Middle and Whitley High - appear to have made way for housing estates. That's life. And of course the Latics now play at the JJB Stadium. Things just move on! All the best and thank you. I must visit Wigan again SOON!

Very interesting site love to see more about railways in Wigan if at all poss i was a train driver at Springs Branch now based at Warrington

Very good site, excellent, will ask to see if we can have something similar (but not copied)
Will see you at your beer festival

the Beatles did not appear in Wigan in October 1963 - it was October 1964. I know because I was there. On the bill with them was Mary Wells who sang 'My Guy' which didn't come out until 1964.

Great site able to keep up with what is going on in the Wigan area, even though I left 14 years ago we still have friends and family over in the UK

A great site to learn about the history of the town we live in. i have been in wigan for 3 years and did'nt know much about the town, but after going through this site i know better about wigan. keep up the good work.

Must spend more time here. I was in Wigan for 25 year or more. I founded The Bijou Theatre Company, proving theatre in schools and also putting on a local pantomime. I also founded and edited for five years - Wigan Scene magazine, which in one edition featured the actress Elizabeth Larner - born on the old serwarage farm in Scott Lane, Wigan. She's missing from the famous Wiganers list. Her main claim to fame is that she played Ammonia in "Up Pompii". But she was a very much admired West End Musical Comedy star.

Looking for information and pictures of Winstanley Hall. Found everything I needed to know here on this website that couldn't be found previously. Fantantasic pictures of this little known treasure that has been kept hidden from common folk!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I lived next door to the Oddfellows Arms in Ince(Pingy), My Grandad,Bob Heyes had a shop there before the war,If anyone has any info of my family history would be grateful.
Christine (Wood)as was.

Im impressed Brian,it looks and feels good.Could do with a little bit more on Hindley though,everybody knows its the centre of the world! You should know that,you even went to Park High.

Great site and great pictures,a lot of them I've not seen before. One of the pictures of Carnegie Library(rhunt422b.jpg)appears to in Ashton and not Carnegie Library.
Keep up the good work.

e by ek this site is a true pie eaters paradise

Wallgaters, OWMENYONYERENYA out there lets have some piccies and old stories, enjoyed veiwing the site lots of nostalga can't even keep ourselves out of court can wi good on ya pal keep the good work up.