FLASHBACK: people and places in Wigan's Woodhouse Lane over the decades

This picture retrospective from the Wigan Today archives shows residents, businesses, workers, visitors, places and events on Woodhouse Lane, Springfield and Beech Hill, over many years.

By Charles Graham

Published 25th Jan 2024, 04:55 BST

Memories should certainly be conjured up by this collection.

1. Woodhouse Lane

. Photo: UGC

2. Wigan Bulldogs RL players and Douglas Bank Pub regulars joined together to fill shoeboxes for British troops. They are pictured with organiser Donna Anderson landlady at the Woodhouse Lane pub

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

3. Residents of Woodhouse Lane, brothers Norman and Barnet Harmer

. Photo: Frank Orrell

4. Author Ken Barlow toasts the success of his new book at the Brickmakers' Arms on Woodhouse Lane

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow