Meanwhile here are pictures, from busier times from the near and far past, plucked from the Wigan Today archive.


2. Celebrity astrologer Russell Grant signing copies of his prediction book for customers at Smith's bookshop on Mesnes Street in December 1983
. Photo: Frank Orrell

3. Harry Hill's TV Burp as Carnival - an art exhibition by Anna FC Smith, at 32 Mesnes Street
. Photo: Nick Fairhurst

4. Ground is prepared for the building of Whelan's supermarket on Mesnes Street in 1974
. Photo: STAFF
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