So we thought we’d plunder the Wigan Today archive for pictures from both of those Debenham stores over the decades. They include staff and shoppers, fashion parades and celebrity visits.
17. Students from Wigan and Leigh College fashion department and Hair and Beauty, arrive for a fashion parade at Debenhams in the Grand Arcade
. Photo: Frank Orrell
18. Debenhams staff stage a fancy dress walk around Wigan town centre for charity in 1975
. Photo: Gary Brunskill
19. Slimming World/Debenhams charity fashion show at Debenhams Restaurant in the Grand Arcade in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and Wigan Infirmary's Neonatal Unit: Slimming World models with organisers Lynn Murphy, who runs the Slimming World groups at Winstanley, Worsley Mesnes and The Ravine Club, Pemberton, second from left, and Debenhams Restaurant manager Tracey Hampson, kneeling, right
. Photo: Nick Fairhurst
20. Jane Pickford, centre,the winner of the Wigan Evening Post Debenhams Personal Shopper competition. Pictured with her are Sales Manager Dianna Vincent, left and Personal Shopper Debbie McKenna
. Photo: Paul Greenwood