RETRO: the Wigan Pier-based Robert Opie Museum of Memories

It was the visitor attraction which was guaranteed to raise the nostalgic hairs on the back of your neck. For a few short years at the turn of the millennium, the Robert Opie Museum of Memories found its home at Trencherfield Mill, complementing the other Pier-based tourist draws. Consumer historian Opie began saving evidence of our branded world when he was 16 and 60 years later he’s not stopped!

The heart of the museum was a mock high street with each shop pulling you into a different decade of the 20th century, teeming with household products, books, magazines, toys, gadgets and other paraphernalia from those times.

5. French student Angelique Blaisonneau takes a sneak preview at old comic books at the Opie Museum

. Photo: GARY BRUNSKILL

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6. Wigan Pier finance assistant Nancy Parker with a Raleigh Chopper bike at the Opie Museum

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7. Youngsters enjoying story-telling sessions at Opie Museum of Memories. Authors Julia Bryan and Ron Rigby got the sessions under way with Abigail and Michael who were dressed for the part

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW

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8. A 1950s milk bar at the Opie Museum of Memories

. Photo: UGC

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