FLASHBACK: picture memories of two Wigan town centre market halls

By the end of next year, traders may well have moved into a new Wigan town centre indoor market hall. The current building at the rapidly-disappearing Galleries complex will be the last to go so the businesses can move seamlessly from the old place to the soon-to-be-built new one. So as the Galleries market hall’s days are numbered, we thought we’d publish this collection of images from the last 35 years of it – plus quite a few from its much-missed predecessor too.

We hope this brings back happy memories. The colour pictures are of the present hall and the black and white ones of the previous one which was replaced in the late 1980s.

9. A butcher's stall in the old Wigan market hall in 1977.

. Photo: SUBMITTED

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10. Celebrating the Queen's silver jubilee on a newsagent's stall in the old Wigan market hall in 1977.

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11. A Mr Leyland, dressed in attire from a century earlier, celebrate's the Queen's silver jubilee in 1977.

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12. Cutting the cake to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the current Wigan Market are traders Bill and Olive Worsley with chief markets officer Philip Edge in 1998

. Photo: FRANK ORRELL

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