Ince ladies Liz Ramsdale, Enid Keates and Sylvia Armstrong about to take flight from Bird Street on an all-expenses paid trip of a lifetime to Las Vegas with number one chat show hostess Mrs. Merton in March 1997. They were flying over to the USA, with 50 other regular members of the TV show's audience, to support Mrs. Merton (aka comedienne Caroline Aherne) as she tried to break into the American comedy circuit.Ince ladies Liz Ramsdale, Enid Keates and Sylvia Armstrong about to take flight from Bird Street on an all-expenses paid trip of a lifetime to Las Vegas with number one chat show hostess Mrs. Merton in March 1997. They were flying over to the USA, with 50 other regular members of the TV show's audience, to support Mrs. Merton (aka comedienne Caroline Aherne) as she tried to break into the American comedy circuit.
Ince ladies Liz Ramsdale, Enid Keates and Sylvia Armstrong about to take flight from Bird Street on an all-expenses paid trip of a lifetime to Las Vegas with number one chat show hostess Mrs. Merton in March 1997. They were flying over to the USA, with 50 other regular members of the TV show's audience, to support Mrs. Merton (aka comedienne Caroline Aherne) as she tried to break into the American comedy circuit.

RETRO: Wigan's 1997 news in pictures

Celebrations, Comic Relief, celebrities and a comet! Here are pictures taken by our photographers of what was making the news in 1997.
By Michelle Adamson
Published 15th Jan 2023, 04:55 BST

RETRO – 1997

Liverpool soccer legend, Emlyn Hughes, presenting prizes at the Wigan and Leigh Business Awards at the Wigan Investment Centre on Friday 16th of May 1997.

5. 1997

Liverpool soccer legend, Emlyn Hughes, presenting prizes at the Wigan and Leigh Business Awards at the Wigan Investment Centre on Friday 16th of May 1997. Photo: Frank Orrell

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Staff at The Unit Four Cinema, in Pemberton, wave good-bye, as the last films rolled for the last time, before closure, on Thursday 15th May 1997. Left to right are Margaret Meadows, Helen O'Loughlin, Joyce Hammond, Pam Barnes, Valerie Taberner and Maureen Anderton.

6. 1997

Staff at The Unit Four Cinema, in Pemberton, wave good-bye, as the last films rolled for the last time, before closure, on Thursday 15th May 1997. Left to right are Margaret Meadows, Helen O'Loughlin, Joyce Hammond, Pam Barnes, Valerie Taberner and Maureen Anderton. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST

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Chris Anderton, left, and Les Baldwin, projectionists at The Unit Four Cinema, in Pemberton, roll the films for the last time, before closure, on Thursday 15th May 1997.

7. 1997

Chris Anderton, left, and Les Baldwin, projectionists at The Unit Four Cinema, in Pemberton, roll the films for the last time, before closure, on Thursday 15th May 1997. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST

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Arm wrestling competitors with trophies at the Alexandra Hotel, Whelley, in January 1997.

8. 1997

Arm wrestling competitors with trophies at the Alexandra Hotel, Whelley, in January 1997. Photo: Frank Orrell

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