We are looking back to the decade of the 1990s when we captured on film all sorts of familiar buildings, shops and scenes in and around Wigan.
RETRO: 1990s
5. 1994
St. Joseph's College in Walthew Park, Up Holland, in 1994. The Grade 2 listed building is a former Roman Catholic seminary, the foundation was laid in 1880 and opened in 1883 to educate and train priesthood candidates aged from 11 to 24. It was founded in 1880 by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly to be a seminary serving the North West of England and was the geographic centre of the diocese of Liverpool. The college closed in 1991. Photo: Frank Orrell
A curious building near to Bark Hill Barns, Wigan Road, Aspull, in May 1997. Situated on land that was Bark Hill Farm it dates from 1716 and was originally a bull pen used to calm bulls down. Photo: Frank Orrell