FROM THE ARCHIVES: Wiganers having fun in the sun ... and rain!
A look back to summer fun days Wiganers enjoyed in the rain and shine!
By Michelle Adamson
Published 8th Jul 2020, 10:05 BST
Updated 8th Jul 2020, 10:08 BST
Enjoy the pictures ...
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Punk pensioner, Eveline Laughton, joins in the fun with Elliot Morris, left, and April Fillingham, right, at Haigh Music Festival on Sunday 18th of June 2006.
The long hot summer of 1976 and these Ince children made the most of the North West Water Authority testing a new water main at the junction of Ince Green Lane and Warrington Road to have some cool splashing fun, July 1976.
Area Constable Jim Bolton swops his truncheon for a baseball bat with the encouragement of American softball teams and Wigan Wolverines American football team during a fun day at Goose Green in 1987 in aid of the Children's Wheelchair Fund and Wigan Hospice.