RETRO: Remembering Wigan's pub landlords and landladies
By Michelle Adamson
Published 10th Mar 2023, 12:30 BST
Here are a selection of photographs taken from 1970 to the ’00s for stories or part of a weekly feature Pub Life – you might recognise a friendly face or two behind the bar.
Landlord of the Plough and Harrow pub in Shevington, Nick Du Toit, found himself having to strip off his shirt to practise his musical skills in June 1998 to appease customers who were duped into flocking to the pub after seeing a board advertising a topless trumpeter act. Responsible for the prank was regular Jimmy Culshaw who the month before had promised topless clog dancers. Photo: Frank Orrell
RETRO 1978 Wigan town centre's Market Hotel licensees Mr and Mrs Colin Cook enjoy their last evening serving customers before the pub was due to be renovated by new owners and the name changed to The Market Tavern Photo: staff
FORESTERS ARMS - PUB LIFE.
Ronn Baxendale and Deborah Aindow, licensee and manageress of The Foresters Arms, Shevington Moor, Standish. Photo: Nick Fairhurst