Wigan, Opinions |
| "Wigan paved; as big as Warrington and better builded... Some
merchants, some artificers, some farmers." John Leland, 1536 (Wigan is) "a pretty market town built of stone and
brick." "I do not remember... ever to have seen so much misery and wretchedness, in
such a small compass before." "At present the whole of the district is thickly populated, the industrial
town of Wigan occupying the greater part of the township, whilst its collieries, factories
etc., fill the atmosphere with smoke." "Metropolitan Wigan - an area where the best northern traditions of
neighbourliness and a warm welcome die hard, yet where the old myths of industrial
drabness have finally been laid to rest." |
Article by Adrian Morris |