Photo-a-Day  (Saturday, 5th March, 2016)

Has this refurb been done recently,if so what has happened to the new cuts in council spending,looks wigan council has already started to spend some of the new council tax rises, looks a nice job,not that we the public will see much of it as usual.

Total waste of my money.

It is such a relief to me and all other council tax payers to know that our council has money for spending on "essentials". I wonder how the rest of the borough has suffered to pay for this.

So this is where they destroy Wigan from ?

Very smart, and what looks like an expensive restoration, thank you for that Thomas, a place where i, like the majority of Wiganers have never been and are never likely to go. With all due respect there will have been a lot of claptrap spoken in there and some bad decisions made, and, no doubt a few good ones.

The money needs to be spent on our roads..they are in an awful state.

This was Room B 20 in the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College. See Album, Places, Wigan Mining & Technical College, photo #4134, last on 3rd row 0n page 1.
Sat all my exams in the Assembly Hall B 20 when an external student of London University.
Wonder when all the external scaffolding etc. for this £6 million refurbishment will be removed.

It is an impressive restoration. The Town Hall is the face of a town or city, and I think that our town is deserving of an impressive building just as much as any other town. When visitors come to Wigan be it a delegation considering investment in our town or overseas callers, we want to show our best side.The building was falling apart and in places unfit for purpose, so if refurbishment was necessary it is to the credit of all concerned that such an outstanding result as been achieved .

At least the stained glass is original (I hope )and they are really beautiful. Perhaps the work needed to be done -it's very tasteful. It's a good photograph Tom!

Should be Schools and not Places at the end of the first line of my 11.21 comment.

If the council had kept it in good order when it was the college building. They may have avoided paying out all that money, for the upkeep of it now!

Vb, never mind perhaps the work was needed,perhaps it should have been spent on social aspects such as, the ( closed) library's and OAP services,and schools ,where it is needed

They would have done better to spend the money on something to commemorate the thousands of men and women who worked, suffered and died in Wigan Pits and Mills over the years.

If the powers that be were totally intent on spending vast amounts on Town Hall premises, it would have been better (and possibly cheaper) to take a wrecking ball to that hideous existing building and start over with something new and more suited to purpose.

They'd have been better spending the money on defence, as we are now seeing TRAVELLERS at Pennington Flash in Leigh. How much money will it cost to clean up after them since Friday.What gets me, if the so called Travellers went to Buckingham Palace or Downing St, they'd had been kicked out straight away. The law is all wrong.

DeekB,do you mean something like the new Life Centre that they have built at the top of The Weind? Totally spoilt a unique area of Wigan. Not to mention that hideous Face.

ANY NEWS ON MICK

Gary 2r has it right. Corbynism at its best. The whole country would have been wrecked like Wigan if everybody had voted Labour over the years like the poor benighted Wiganers.

Michael Gormmally , just imagine if people had never Labour !

Michael Gormally we keep voting Labour because, God help us, we've seen the alternative. Lord save us from the likes of Boris "The Buffoon" Johnson.

Ernest, when did you take your exams? My brother, Dick Morris, took his in 1941, passed - Bsc. & went into the R.A.F. It would be so much easier now if this system had continued.

maggie, My University of London certificate (10" x 14") states:-
Ernest Pyke having passed the prescribed Examinations has this day been admitted by the Senate to the Degree of Bachelor of Science (Engineering) as an External Student. 21 August 1952.
It`s signed by the External Registrar, whose signature is unreadable.
It took me several years to get my Degree, as I went part-time to W & D M & T C whilst working at Walker Bros.(Wigan) Limited.

Congratulations Ernest. My brother had a good life, family, wonderful jobs. he passed away in 2008. I miss him so much.