Tontine's Delph Tavern landlord, John Curtis, with customers, Tony Wilkinson and Thomas Glover, in March 1972.Tontine's Delph Tavern landlord, John Curtis, with customers, Tony Wilkinson and Thomas Glover, in March 1972.
Tontine's Delph Tavern landlord, John Curtis, with customers, Tony Wilkinson and Thomas Glover, in March 1972.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Wiganers enjoying a night out in the seventies and eighties

Pubs can now open their doors to customers as some of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are relaxed, we take a look back at pubs and nightclubs in 1970s and 1980s
By Michelle Adamson
Published 9th Jul 2020, 10:18 GMT
Updated 9th Jul 2020, 10:22 GMT

Photographs by Frank Orrell - Cheers!

Landlord Colin Cook and regulars at the Market Hotel in Wigan in 1974.

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Landlord Colin Cook and regulars at the Market Hotel in Wigan in 1974.

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Watching the world go by...a quiet corner for a Market Hotel, Wigan, drinker in the early 1970s.

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Watching the world go by...a quiet corner for a Market Hotel, Wigan, drinker in the early 1970s.

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Newtown Labour Club cleaners Jean Spencer, Maureen Roberts, Lilian Randall and Lily Hughes have a break in the Alderman Horrocks concert room in December 1971.

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Newtown Labour Club cleaners Jean Spencer, Maureen Roberts, Lilian Randall and Lily Hughes have a break in the Alderman Horrocks concert room in December 1971.

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Student Marilyn Evans enters the gentlemen only bar in the Market Hotel, Mesnes Street, Wigan, on Monday 29th of December 1975, the first day of the new equality act for women. For 50 years men only had crossed the threshold of the exclusively male only bar in the Wigan pub but the Sex Discrimination Act changed all that.

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Student Marilyn Evans enters the gentlemen only bar in the Market Hotel, Mesnes Street, Wigan, on Monday 29th of December 1975, the first day of the new equality act for women. For 50 years men only had crossed the threshold of the exclusively male only bar in the Wigan pub but the Sex Discrimination Act changed all that.

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