And here are pictures from the Wigan Observer archives in which their residents, businesses, events and institutions have featured over many decades.
37. Wigan Hospice held its last Garden Party at the Poolstock site in 1996 to raise funds. Pictured on the bric-a-brac stall are left to right; Sylvia Greenslade, Eileen Booth, Anne Yates and Nellie Stone
. Photo: PAUL SIMPSON
38. The Mayor and Mayoress of Wigan, Coun Ken and Mrs Joan Pye, are welcomed to St Jude's RC Church, Poolstock, Wigan, by parish priest Father Pat MacNally, and former Wigan Mayor and parishioner Albert Eckersley, right, when they attended a civic mass at the church
. Photo: DAVID HURST
39. A donkey ride for two-year-old Stephen Smith with grandad at the midsummer fair at Comet Youth Club, Poolstock, on Saturday June 24 1972
. Photo: FO
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