Among them are quite a few photographs taken in the Scholes area plus the earliest known picture of Wigan Athletic’s former home, Springfield Park, thought to have been taken in the first decade of the the last century.
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Stacking the shelves at the new Shevington Co-op supermarket in 1966. Photo: Frank Orrell
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Customers join in a sing song with the Spinners folk group after they opened Dawsons music shop in Hallgate in 1967. Photo: Frank Orrell
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A vintage photograph of the picture house cinema, Scholes, Wigan - date unknown. Photo: staff
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RETRO 1995 - The Life Education mobile classroom arrives at St Patrick's primary school Scholes. Photo: gb