Nostalgia

Geoff Shryhane travels back the the Sixties to check out what he could buy...

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane takes a look at a remarkable discovery...that tastes good too!

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane continues his theme of gastronomic nostalgia in this week's My World...

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane gets gastronomical with his nostalgia...

Who doesn’t love looking at pictures of Wigan and Wigan folk from years gone by?

After fighting in the trenches, Thomas Fitzpatrick was captured and sent to one of the most notorious prisoner of war camps in Germany but survived to make his own great escape. One hundred years on, the Lancashire Post’s Deputy Editor Nicola Adam uses a series of wartime postcards to piece together the untold First World War story of her great-grandfather, Thomas Fitzpatrick

What happened before the battle?

The Battle of Amiens marked the beginning of the end of the First World War.

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane looks back at the mysterious death of a young lad from Ince...

We’ve dug through our picture archives once again to bring you some more snaps from retro Wigan ... but can you guess what year it is?

Once again we’ve delved into our archive of pictures of Wigan and Wiganers from yesteryear.

We're in the middle of a heatwave, and with the mercury set to stay in the mid-20s for at least the next week, we take a look at some of the icy treats we used to love.

The heatwave of 1976 was one of longest and hottest summers of the 20th century.

We’ve raided our archives again to bring you some more magnificent pictures from yesteryear.

There are some fine old pubs in Wigan and we’ve trawled through our archives to find some pictures of them in their heyday.

Here’s our latest batch of pictures from the Wigan Observer and Wigan Post archives.

Decades after it was last used, much of the equipment used to put on shows and films at what could be Wigan’s next big arts venue is still there.

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane looks at what Heinz means to Wigan...

Everyone loves looking at old pictures ...