Celebrating awards and cheque presentations with the people of Wigan with some of the photographs taken in 2003.
By Michelle Adamson
Published 26th Mar 2023, 15:45 BST
RETRO: 2003
9. 2003
Site Manager, Mike Winch, with a lump of coal from the smouldering Broomfield Tip in Bradley Lane, Standish, in December 2003. Engineers started the massive project to extinguish the underground tip fire , which had been burning for 15 months, in October of that year.
Underground temperature probes revealed that the fire, which was being fuelled by the high deposits of coal at the tip, was burning up to a depth of 15 metres. Photo: Frank Orrell
Jazz and pop singer and actress, Clio Laine, and husband, composer and saxophanist, Johnny Dankworth, on stage at The Mill at the Pier for Wigan International Jazz Festival on Wednesday 16th of July 2003. Photo: Frank Orrell
The cold snap couldn't stop swans on the canal at Haigh finding an unfrozen stretch and attracting the attention of George Bateson with his dog Max on Monday 6th of January 2003. Photo: Frank Orrell