It's fair to say that traders have not always been happy with their lot at the indoor market and neither have they unanimously welcomed a move to new but smaller premises when the latest development is complete. However, many Wiganers will have special memories of their shopping trips there over the last three decades or so.
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Exterior of Wigan Market, November 2020.
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Princess Diana on a happy note with St. John Rigby College students who were winners of a "Wigan Market Traders Association - Song for Wigan" competition during her visit to open the Galleries, Courthouse and new Town Hall on Monday 25th of November 1991.
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The old Wigan market hall in December 1987 just prior to closure of the building.