It’s at this time of year when the weather starts warming up and visitors flock to our beautiful Mesnes Park and Haigh Woodland Park.
We’ve had a look through the Wigan Today archives and produced a variety of pictures featuring both locations as backdrops to all kinds of events and goings-on during the month of April in years gone by.
1. Young cancer survivor in the Race for Life
Five-year-old cancer survivor Victoria Calland before she took part in the 2018 Race for Life at Haigh Woodland Park Photo: Paul Heyes
2. April Fool's joke
This is Mesnes Park in 1977 when someone - with a bit of photographic trickery - played an April Fool's joke by seeming to move the famous Francis Sharp-Powell statue into bandstand Photo: submitted
3. College students at Haigh Woodland Park
Winstanley College students (left to right: Lisa, Sophie, Alex, Becky, James and David) enjoy a picnic in the April break at Haigh Hall in 2007 Photo: Paul Greenwood
4. Words Festival
Wigan Words Festival held its Green Poets Awards at Haigh Hall in 2012. Here is a jubilant third-placed medal-winner Laura Taylor Photo: Paul Simpson