Most of these images date from the 1990s and the first couple of years of the new millennium.
5. Daniel Gilmour, two, goes down the slide at Little Gems Wigan's newest nursery at Springfield
. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW
6. Four-year-old Kelly Burke who attended Sacred Heart Nursery in Springfield is seen wearing one of the old 50 pence pieces which was ceasing to be legal tender in February 1998
. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW
7. Children from the Walkden Hall Day Nursery, Wigan had raised £1,406 for Derian House children's hospice. Three-year-olds Eden Leviston and Anita Clayton were two of the nursery's stalwart fundraisers who were thanked by Derian House appeals organiser Christina Williams
. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW
8. Very young children at a Wigan nursery remember Princess Diana folllowing her tragic death in 1997
. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW