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.

17. Jackie Dickinson of Baubles Bangles and Beads in Wigan Market Hall

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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18. Long before there was Latics' mascot Crusty, we had the Edwards Bakery pie man (surely they're related?). Here he is at the Edwards pie shop in the market hall with Wigan RL players Andy Johson and Lee Gilmour who were sampling red and white barm cakes and gingerbread biscuits with the players' names on produced in advance of the club's latest Challenge Cup final appearance at Wembley

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBAROW

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19. Wigan Market Hall traders were colelcting donations for Derian House children's hospice

. Photo: FRANK ORRELL

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20. Ken Hall with some sprouts on his stall in Wigan Market Hall

. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST

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