Healthy respect: 28 vintage Wigan Infirmary pictures from the 1960s to '80s

A charming collection of archive images from our library shows life at Wigan Infirmary from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

How the faces, the uniforms and the technology have changed since!

5. A pretty similar view to today's of Wigan Infirmary. But this was taken in the 1980s

. Photo: gb

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6. Nurses collect their awards at an annual presentation ceremony in 1969

. Photo: STAFF

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7. The extensive care unit re-opening in 1969

. Photo: GB

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8. Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie is aghast at the metal brace on patient Peter Noble's leg as she tours a ward after officially opening the Acute Unit in 1987

. Photo: Frank Orrell

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