old Wigan,

a very sad picture of central park being demolished,

I remember the engraving stall outside the market. Used to go there for a dog tag to put current boyfriends name on one side own name on reverse. With a heart of course.

Memories

Good bit of film that. Especially the Market. I remember Pollits fruit and veg stall. My mam always got her fresh veg there, it were a bugger to carry home on't bus though.

excellent Tom.  I would love to go back to Wallgate to when they first came here from Ireland in the 1800s but only for a short time.

a good watch (again)

I liked that very much

Admin wrote:I remember the engraving stall outside the market.  Used to go there for a dog tag to put current boyfriends name on one side own name on reverse. With a heart of course.

haha I think lots of us did that

10 archive pics courtesy of WT

I particularly liked the one of the Infirmary. Seems like a lifetime away, but fresh in the memory. There certainly weren't a queue of ambulances outside in those days. Though I suppose, even relatively recently, more folk went to the chapel of rest, than to the hospital.


Thanks also to Wigan Today for their generosity in sharing the images.

Robinsons Saddlery 1867 A painting by H Walder.

Anyone know what the music is accompanying the film?

Cracking photos

'Spiegel im Spiegel' translates as 'Mirror in the Mirror'.

Good man, Ray, also mirrors in the mirror. Thank you admin, It's a great piece.

The piece is in the tintinnabular style, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other.

And that is why I don't play the guitar very well Joseph!