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.
5. Market hall workers share a farewell drink on the last day of trading at the Wigan Market Hall
. Photo: Frank Orrell
6. The popular toy stall on Wigan market day in 1972
. Photo: STAFF
7. Market supervisor Philip Edge prepares to lock the doors of the old Wigan Market Hall for the last time before closure on Saturday January 16 1988
. Photo: FO
8. Outside stalls
. Photo: submit