Photo-a-Day  (Saturday, 17th June, 2023)

Well I can tell you which is my favorite building on this photo and it would be the black and white one in the bottom right of the photo.
Nice to see you fully recovered Irene, to see you nice.

Where does the demolition material end up?

Its about time someone did something positive with it. Nothing lasts forever including town centre shopping.

Still a long way to go - at least the ‘facades’ are in place - no change with them. I’m imagining the apartments will be on top of any shops and a
‘ market hall’?

From previous new buildings this will be awful, like I've said before they've killed off the Wigan we loved and grew up with, I'm not negative but realistic.
This will be gone in 20 years time.

A good phot, Andrew, but a sad one. It was sad enough to see the original Wigan Market Hall being demolished, but at least she was an Old Lady that had lived a long and useful life going back to the 1800s.....this is like a child that hasn't even got to school age. What an absolute waste of materials, time and money.

Thankyou Abram Alice, and I agree with you about the old black-and-white building.

going to be a multi story primark cause its the only store in wigan thats got any people in it

Nice pic Andrew, them buildings was my working life for 10 years sad to see them go, I noticed this morning that most of the fourth floor parking has gone now, it's been hard work for demolition guys as most of shops still had equipment and goods in them.

Good view up there Andrew and strangely no Pigeons or even Sparrows to be seen, there was always plenty of both birds to be seen.

Abram Alice did you like the stuff from Jackson the Tailor? you'll have to meet up with 'good old days' and have a root about in the bargain basement at Primark.

There was a discussion about Wigan Tailors in 2012: https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/communicate/mb_message.php?opt=f1&msd=849549&offset=&subject=who%2527s%2520old%2520enough%2520to%2520remember%2520made-to-measure%2520suits

and also some jokes about Tailors in the same year: https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/communicate/mb_message.php?opt=f1&opt2=&msd=849609&offset=0&subject=Tailor%2520Jokes

Peter P , recycling.

Nice photo but not a nice sight.

You're right MikeW, nothing lasts forever, but you'd expect more than 50 years out of a brand new complex like this one.

The only people to blame for this are us. Not the council or the shop owners or the government because we are the ones who stopped using town centre shops

The white roof of the market hall can still be seen behind the Galleries atrium and the clock. Going back some years ago pigeons had begun to get in through a broken air vent and so we called in the council pest control to get them out, we left them to it and they decided they would shoot them, and as it turned out it was a powerful air rifle they'd brought along. Neither one of them would have won a prize at a fun fair rifle range either because with only three pigeons for them to shoot at they had put uncountable pellet holes in the roof, I'm sure there were less gun shots heard at the Alamo. If you looked up you could actually see the holes glisten when the sunlight hit them, however it then began raining in, and the raining in was far worse than the old market hall had ever been. The private pest control company we had later said, why did they even consider using an air rifle when it was a thin anodised metal roof? because they were blockheads managed by blockheads !

What happens in London will come to Wigan . Junk food , KFC , I bet have already have booked a place for here . As the doctors and NHS beg to tell us the rise in obesity, we just allow more and more junk food places to feed this need to want to have more . Governments pass this onto doctors and nurses to sort out , yet casually allow more and more junk food places to grow , just adding to obesity. We all pay for this yet we still allow these junk food places to fill our need

Wi a bit o luck southerners MIT learn ow make a proper pie

That’s what they said about a pint of bitter Paul Mc, but them theer folk daan saarf never managed that either.