Articles

An extensive article by Dr. Stephen Craig-Smith charting the history of the college,

Research into the Wigan Wallgate Station War Memorial that once was on display in the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway loco sheds in Prescott Street, Wigan. By Graham Taylor

A history of the family and the business from Paul Macfarlane and Andy Lomax.

Article by Andy Lomax on the life of Humphrey Walmesley.

Locations of the three Grade II Listed stone cross bases in Standish. By Graham Taylor

The use of maps as an aid to historical and family history research. The history of the Ordnance Survey and a look at Wigan on a 1951 OS map. By Graham Taylor.

The story of two friends from Wallgate who were to meet up again in WW1. One was to survive, the other died on active service but left behind a famous sporting dynasty. By Graham Taylor.

A critique of author George Orwell and his book "The Road to Wigan Pier, by Tom Walsh.

A detailed look at the reasons for the election riots in Wigan in May 1831, the backgrounds of the characters involved and the consequences for the perpetrators of the ensuing violence. By Graham Taylor.

The origins of the Wigan Volunteer Light Horse during the early part of the 19th century, and its evolution over the next 200 years to the Army’s modern day successor, still based in Wigan, the Queens Own Yeomanry. By Graham Taylor.

Hundreds of years before Winstanley Hall was built the Winstanley family lived in a moated homestead. Explore the extensive evidence for this produced by Derek Winstanley, also evidence of another Winstanley moated homestead.

An interesting article by Malcolm Ryding on the life of Thomas Wall and family, founder of the Wigan Observer in 1853.