Childhood memories: pictures of Wigan's long gone St Stephen's Primary School

It’s nearly two decades since Whelley St Stephen’s CE Primary closed its doors for the final time as its pupils, and those from New Springs St John the Baptist, amalgamated to continue their education at the newly created Canon Sharples School.

But we have in this retrospective gallery pictures of the old place, and even its predecessor which was opened in Victorian times. Several of the pictures date from a special photo shoot in 1976.