This picture gallery mined from the Wigan Today archives, featuring social clubs, Labour Clubs and Conservative clubs in the area, gives just a taste of the wide range of activities to which they have been home over many decades.
29. Members of the Ladies' Section, inside Scholes Labour Club, enjoying their Christmas party in the early 1970s
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30. A children's Christmas party in the old Scholes Conservative Club in the 1940s
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31. Wigan rugby league stars Andy Gregory, Graeme West, Joe Lydon, and Shaun Wane lend their support to a cheque presentation at Poolstock Labour Club to RMCH Bone Marrow Fund in the 1980s
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32. Photograph of the committee of the old Scholes Conservative Club taken either in the late 1950s or early '60s
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