This gallery from the Wigan Today library mixes the old and the relatively new, the rare and the more familiar as we revist many of its businesses, characters and shoppers who populated these landmarks for many generations.
41. Looking around the stalls outside Wigan market hall in the 1950s. Note Pendleburys occupying the building the Rushton building (now part of Wigan and Leigh College on Market Street) after a fire at its Standishgate store
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42. Cutting the cake to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wigan Market are traders Bill and Olive Worsley with Chief Markets Officer Philip Edge in 1998
. Photo: FRANK ORRELL
43. The old Wigan Market Hall is still remembered with affection
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44. Wigan shop assistants pose outside the old Wigan Market Hall as the prepare to go on their annual walk at least 100 years ago
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