Resources

An account of the 1830 election in Wigan, during turbulent times before the 1832 Reform Act.

Lots of retail and industrial companies inluded providing a comprehensive view of Wigan in Victorian times.

Extract from a book written by Rev, Nightingale on Congregational & Presbyterian Churches in Wigan and District.

Split into 2 parts:- Part 1 - Church, Tin Church, Larch Avenue, The Clergy. Part 2- Schools, Walking days, People of the Parish.

Publication on the history of Hindley Chapel by Rev. William Wickham, Vicar of St. Andrew's, Wigan. Published in 1910

A list of hotels, Inns and Taverns in 1825. Some are still there but not the original building?

A publication by the Wigan Observer around 1960. Lots of old interesting images with some history attached. The booklet was produced before the internet and was probably the first glimpse of old photos for many Wiganers.

Blundell's Collieries - A history of Wages, Dispites and Conditions of Work by Donald Anderson.

Extracts from the publication "Two Years on the Alabama" which details a report on the battle from Evans Parry Jones, Captain of the Deerhound. Images of the Lancaster family, letters from the Confederates States, and Jefferson Davis, first and only president from 1861 to 1865.

includes some brief notes on Fred's life after attending Wigan Tech.

Three dialect poems by James Brown of Aspull relating to the Royal visit to Haigh Hall and the opening of the Infitmary