Enjoy these scenes from Orrell Water Park in years past

Orrell Water Park has been a popular Wigan escape and attraction for four decades now since disused reservoirs were turned into a nature reserve.

And Observer photographers have been visiting it for a variety of events ever since. Enjoy these picture reminiscences!

13. A view of the water park in the 1990s

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW

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14. Gavin Davies from Sport and Leisure Fisheries lifts some of the 5,000 carp from the tanks ready to empty into one of the Orrell Water Park lakes

. Photo: Frank Orrell

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15. The Speakmans on a treasure hunt at Orrell Water Park: Jay, six, Holly, five, and Mason, three

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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