Retro – Vintage views of Wigan streets
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Central Labour Club at the junction of Powell Street and Hilton Street, Wigan, in November 1971. The building was later to become Riley's snooker club. Photo: Frank Orrell
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A scene from a Wigan street in the Scholes area about to be demolished in 1971. Photo: Frank Orrell
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Westwood power station and the Wigan gasometer behind Chapel Street, Lower Ince, in December 1971. Photo: Frank Orrell
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The derelict warehouse of W.H.S.Taylor on Market Street, Wigan, in 1971 with Elizabeth Wilding photographic shop next door and the Queen's Hall tower just visible. Photo: Frank Orrell
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