Remembering Wigan's Somerfield supermarkets

For about a decade from the late 1990s onwards, there were severl Somerfield supermarkets in the Wigan area. Owned by the retailer Gateway, they served shoppers in Ashton, Standish and Tyldesley. The business was first taken over by Kwik Save and then the Co-op before the Somerfield name disappeared altogether from the high street.

These pictures were taken by our photographers at all three of the local stores.

5. Makerifield MP Ian McCartney sets to work with the clippers at Somerfield in Ashton with Karen Winstanley and Keith Atherton willing subjects for a charity shave

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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6. Karen Winstanley and Keith Atherton after their charity headshave from Makerfield MP Ian McCartney at Ashton's Somerfield

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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7. Chef Noel Goulding offers tomato recipes to Julia Jenkinson and daughter Eleanor during a demonstration at the Standish Somerfield store during National Tomato Week. Helping out are Somerfield assistant manager, Derek Fawcett, Somerfield technical manager, Jeff Ffitch and local grower Peter Lansdale

. Photo: FRANK ORRELL

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8. The Tyldesley Somerfield supermarket fun day in 1998

. Photo: gb

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