So we have opened our archives again to look for more pictures of the borough’s hairdressers and salons.
5. Wigan's hairdressers and hair salons
Well-known Pemberton hairdresser Gill Gough getting ready to celebrate her 60th birthday with a charity evening and raffle to raise funds for Joining Jack and Wigan and Leigh Hospice Photo: Michelle Adamson
6. Wigan's hairdressers and hair salons
Edith Yates, mother of reader Christine Rigby who sent in this picture, outside her hairdressing shop in Hindley in 1936 Photo: Submitted
7. Wigan's hairdressers and hair salons
Carl Sharpe, left, and Mary McLaughlin, right, from The Christie accept a £865 cheque from Philip Halliwell, centre, and staff from Norman and Philip Hairdressers, Wigan. Philip was getting treatment for cancer and the funds were raised from a coffee morning selling drinks and cakes Photo: Michelle Adamson
8. Wigan's hairdressers and hair salons
Bouche Hairdressing Salon owners Michelle Selby, second from left, and Lauren Evans, second from right, with staff, Nicole Butterworth, Liz Wilding and Grace Roberts, in the salon in the DW Stadium Photo: David Hurst