A trip down Memory Lane with a selection of photographs of shops, shopkeepers and vintage views you might be familiar with in and around Wigan in the 1970s.
Retro – 1970s
5. 1974
Wigan's Woolworths store and a busy Standishgate in August 1974. Photo: Frank Orrell
Molly Dandy in her sweet shop and newsagents on Broad o'th Lane, Shevington, where she had lived and worked for 33 years in April 1972. Photo: Frank Orrell
John Morris, aged 88, sat in the doorway of his hardware and cycle shop which he had run for 70 years in Bryn Street, Ashton, in May 1972. Photo: Frank Orrell