Home An injured fireman is helped by colleagues during the huge fire at John England's Gidlow Mills factory near Mesnes Park on Monday 20th of October 1969. RETRO: What was making the news in Wigan in the 1960s? By Michelle Adamson
Published 4th Dec 2022, 12:30 BST
Here’s a fascinating selection of photographs accompanying Wigan news and features taken by our now retired press photographer Frank Orrell in 1960s.
13. 1968 Staff in the new cafe at Lowe's store on Market Street after the official opening in March 1968. Photo: Frank Orrell
14. 1968 The last remaining blacksmith's forge in south west Lancashire on Kenyon Lane, Lowton, just before closure in 1968.
The blacksmith is thought to be Herbert Jordan. Photo: Frank Orrell
15. 1967 Nurses at work in the newly opened intensive care unit at Wigan Infirmary in May 1967. Photo: Frank Orrell