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.
29. Wigan Council Leisure services Department launchedits summer campaign with a life-size mascot The Bargain Hunter outside the markets
. Photo: PS
30. Wigan Leisure Council's LINC has received sponsorship from Wigan Athletic Football Club. Pictured at the Launch with JJ, the Latics' mascot, are from left, Martin Green LINC Recruitment Assistant, Robert Allen aged nine and Anna Broad, aged 11 from Winstanley Primary School and The Mayor of Wigan Coun Joan Hurst
. Photo: PAUL SIMPSON
31. Youngsters in Wigan town centre ready to Kick Litter into Touch as they are joined by Keep Wigan Tidy mascot Wiggy
. Photo: Gary Brunskill
32. Commonwealth Games mascot, Kit, shows the way the baton was to travel through Wigan
. Photo: FO