RETRO: another dip into our Pub Life archives, featuring several Wigan watering holes, their staff and customers in 2009

The latest vintage Pub Life offering takes us back 14 years to a number of hostelries that the Wigan Evening Post featured in 2009.

By Charles Graham

Published 4th Aug 2023, 12:30 GMT

We meet locals at The Venture in Highfield, staff at The Boulevard in Wigan town centre and revisit the Eagle and Child in Billinge.

1. Alan and Rita Gore at The Venture in Highfield

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

2. Venture pub manager Stewart White

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

3. Thomas Pendriss at The Venture

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

4. Beberley Gramauskas behind the bar at The Venture in Highfield.

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

Wigan Billinge Highfield