Here’s a selection of pictures from our archives showing the park and events from its early days during the Victorian period and much more recently in the 1990s and early noughties.
9. Alex Rayner and Anthony Middlehurst paint their eggs at an Easter fun day at Mesnes Park in 2000
. Photo: FRANK ORRELL
10. In 2000 the now much-missed Mesnes Park Crazy Golf Course had been re-vamped . Katharine Gallagher, nine, gave it a try
. Photo: John Leatherbarrow
11. Wigan and Leigh College held a fun day at Mesnes Park in 2001. Pictured are college staff Lesley Grimes, John Ormerod, and Karen West
. Photo: GARY BRUNSKILL
12. It's 1996 and Wigan's then Mayor, Coun Bernard Coyle officially opened the Mesnes Park Playshack. He is pictured with Alan Roberts (BT Corporate Relations Manager), Angela Fell (Project Manager for Early Years Support Agency), with some of her charges Tyler Walsh (left), three, Kyle Gerrard, three, and Rhiannon Russell, four, with some of the toys provided by the scheme. 338F96.
. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST