Remembrance Sunday 2025 Wigan: The procession will leave the Town Hall on Library Street at 10:30 and head to the War Memorial in All Saints' Gardens,  for a service. The procession wi

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Pls help me spread word: tonight 8pm ITV I'll talk you through how to check if you can boost your State Pension by possibly £10,000s. There's an urgent deadline coming after which many lose the opportunity

It's a must watch for anyone age 40 to 73 (some under 40s can gain too)

Petition: Make the state pension tax exempt We want the government to make the state pension tax exempt and not impact the tax threshold.

Petition to make state pension exempt from tax
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Gates of Wigan Past Forward issue 23 https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Leisure/Museums-and-archives/archives/Past-Forward/pf23.pdf

Gates of Wigan
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Wigan to Haigh Hall by Cable Car Would it be a totally far fetched idea to build a cable car transportation system, from the Plantation Gates or there abouts in the Lower Plantations to the Hai

One on the members of Wigan Peers posted this a few days ago, Is it too crazy an idea? I like it. What do you think?
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Home Ground WIGAN YouTube video by Punk Baby

Home Ground. This is a documentary about Wigan from 1979. A very rare and interesting look at life before the Wigan we know today!
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Songs of Praise from Wigan Parish Church. 1999 YouTube video by Tim Cooke

Songs of Praise Wigan 1999
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Watch Trotting Match at Springfield Park, Wigan (1904) - BFI Player Edwardian spectators and bookies enjoy an exciting day of horse racing.

Must have been a popular sport back then
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Taken a few years ago, St Oswold's church Warton Near Carnforth.

Alina Recluse The Recluse of Wigan In the early fourteenth century, Wigan had a recluse whose name was Alina. She was not simply a lady who wished to keep herself to herself

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Thanks for this. I love reading the articles in Past Forward.

PastForward - Links to Articles - Wigan Building Preservation Trust Thanks to volunteer Marianne Howell for providing an easier way to find and open articles from the back copies of PastForward.

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Love PastForward, the ultimate #Wigan #history Publication but in a hurry to find an article about a certain topic?
Thanks to Marianne your troubles are over.

Absolute Superstar! 👑

ASK OFGEM: Tomorrow for my podcast's I'm pleased to say the Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley has agreed to come on and take my AND your questions. So if you have questions on domestic energy you want to suggest for the big boss of the regulator (or any for me). Pls post by reply...

Please use your local #Library & #Museum.
They are staffed by amazing people,offer a wonderful service & make life better 💟

You know it's windy when a crisp packet passes you on the M25😱

a man in a blue sweater is dancing in front of a white car in the fog . ALT: a man in a blue sweater is dancing in front of a white car in the fog .

The joy of chasing your bins around the street in a storm 🤯

Johnny Lawrenson original signed photo
219 games for Wigan, 187 tries and a few goals to boot once Jim Sullivan was away.

Made his debut 10th December 1938 against Leigh. Later he coined the phrase “this place is just a bus stop in Wigan”

Why not do the double?
Carols in a GE Street Church on the Friday then learn all about him the next day at the museum
#architecture #Victorian #history

A few blue plaques here
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TONIGHT: The Hotpots hit Wigan . Doors 7.30pm, @andymackguitar.bsky.social 8pm, Hotpots 8.45pm. A handful of tickets on the door. Let’s have a party! 🥳 🍺

25/10/1930 - 4/8/1934 (7% of total workload)

😰 let the scans begin.

These won’t be in any private collection, or kept away unseen… aim is to document and share this resource. 1000s photographs, 50 scrapbooks, hundreds of letters and curiosities… 1880s-1950s

Just to say for the first time tonight in @itvmlshow.bsky.social 8pm we'll be announcing you can submit questions/comments here on Bluesky using #MartinLewis as well as on X.

James Hilton Born in Leigh, Lancashire, England, THE NOVELIST and scriptwriter James Hilton is rightly regarded as one of Leighs most famous sons. Born in a humble terraced

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The Lancashire Cup

still have my shirt from when Norweb was the sponsor 1989-1998👍

Wigan's Roman Bath House with Ian Miller [17/07/10] YouTube video by hindleyite

I like a good soak😁
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