This gallery takes you back to the classrooms of Wigan schools in 1972, including St James’s Road County Primary School, Orrell, St. Bernadette’s RC Primary School, Shevington, Hindley County Secondary School and Lower Ince Secondary School.
Teachers Roberta Wainwright and Carol Howarth at story time with two classes at St. James Road County Primary School, Orrell, on Tuesday 8th of February 1972. Photo: Frank Orrell
Teacher Miss C.W. Brown with pupils Ian Keegan and Gillian Howarth holding a shark's tooth sword stick from the New Zealand island of Nauru and doll from Taiwan during a Geography lesson in March 1972 at Hindley County Secondary School. Photo: Frank Orrell