Here’s a wacky picture collection featuring some of them. Sadly we’ve been unable to trace any images of particularly strange and rather creepy tree-like Wigan eco-mascot from the 1990s called Brush Sweep.
5. Wigan Athletic's latest mascot Crusty the Pie
. Photo: Anthony Devlin
6. From left, Gareth Davies and Julie Smith from The Storehouse Project with the charity mascot George, at the Wigan Business Expo 2014, held at DW Stadium
. Photo: MA
7. Buster Bee the Busy Bee Nursery mascot joined by Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity mascot Humphrey Bear at Busy Bees, Scholes, Wigan, during a tour where the mascots were visiting 23 Busy Bees nurseries, part of a fund-raising drive for the hospital, organised by the parents of Daisy Berry, a child who had spent a lot of time being cared for at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. From left, Nursery manager Gemma Hardbaker, apprentice Sophie Cornwell, Buster Bee, Humphrey Bear and event organiser Steven Berry
. Photo: MA
8. Staff celebrate with store mascot Wise Badger, at the newly opened Holland and Barrett in the Grand Arcade. From left: Natalie Garrett, Laura Donnelly, Marie O'Hara, Wise Badger, Tanya Joynt and store manager Leanne Prescott
. Photo: MA