REWIND AND UNWIND: dancing in Wigan from decades past

We’re hot-footing it through the Wigan Today picture archives to showcase photos of all manner of dancing events in the town from decades past.

By Charles Graham

Published 18th Sep 2023, 04:55 BST

From cheerleaders to ballet, from Northern Soul to ballroom, this gallery has strictly got the lot.

1. Hannah Egan ( orange trousers) leads her Scholes St Patrick's Primary School classmates in a sponsored dance in aid of a baby with brittle bone disease

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBAROW

2. Salsa mania hits Wigan as King of the Salsa, Andre King hits the dancefloor. Here Andre and student Denise Caldwell and other students dance out the raunchy Latin American craze

. Photo: JIM PRYLE

3. Wigan Evening Post reporter Andy Williams after his transformation into a dancing king with flares, girls and Austin Powers

. Photo: FRANK ORRELL

4. Auditions for the Male Dance Troupe Male Order which took place in Wigan with Luise Lupton Dave Laycock Joe Gordon and Anastasia Phiri

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW