Retro - buildings and scenes
13. RETRO
A view of Coops clothiers building on Dorning Street with the Crawford Street police station on the right edge of the picture and the Railway Hotel on the left edge around the turn of the 20th century. Photo: Frank Orrell
14. RETRO
The Bee Hive Inn on Wigan Lane in the late part of the 19th century. It stood on the corner of Old Lane mid way between the Cherry Gardens and the Boars Head pubs and closed down in 1907. Photo: Frank Orrell
15. RETRO
Chisnall Hall Colliery at Coppull Moor in January 1967 as its closure is announced. Photo: Frank Orrell
16. RETRO
A view across Station Road showing Central Station and the Scholes flats in the foreground with Wigan Little Theatre, Walter Heyes Electrical Works and Central Park in the background in the late 1960s. Photo: Frank Orrell