Retro - buildings and scenes
17. RETRO
The Commercial Yard in January 1971. The Commercial Hotel on the left and memories of a pie and pint of Double Diamond. Latimer's grocers in the middle, Sawbridge's butchers and McGregors painting and decorating shops on the right. Photo: Frank Orrell
18. RETRO
A view taken from the newly built Woodcock House flats towards the closed Central Station with the Ritz cinema behind. On the right is Crompton Street and in the foreground is Derby Terrace with rows of houses in Bold Street and Low Street in July 1966. Photo: Frank Orrell
19. RETRO
A view across the bottom end of Millgate and Rodney Street towards Chapel Lane with Trinity Methodist Church on the left and Wigan gas works and Westwood cooling towers in the background in the late 1960s. Photo: Frank Orrell