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From Scandals to Snooker: The Brian Boru Club, Ashton-in-Makerfield

Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by Thomas McGrath.

This is part of a new blog series we will be sharing with our colleagues working on the 'Ashton Building History Project'. This post was researched and written by Anna Standring.  Front Elevation of the Brian Boru Club on Byrn...Continue Reading

Ellen Weeton's travels in Wales - 200 years on

Posted on 11th Jun 2025 by Helen Kavanagh. 

Two hundred years ago, Ellen Weeton embarked on one of many adventures – this time to North Wales. Recorded in her diary which we hold in the Edward Hall collection, the entries for May to July 1825 reveal a woman ahead of her time....Continue Reading

'A Liberal Display of Flags and Bunting' - Ince's Victory Celebrations

Posted on 24th Apr 2025 by AWL Team. 

On 24 th April 1945, The Ince Urban District Council Peace Sub Committee met to make ‘arrangements for celebrating locally the cessation of hostilities in the European Theatre of War’. ‘In accordance with the wishes of His...Continue Reading

Remembering Bernard W. T. Wickham (1894-1917)

Posted on 6th Nov 2024 by Thomas McGrath. 

We are lucky at Archives: Wigan & Leigh to hold to photographic collection of Reverend William Wickham (1849-1929). Wickham was the vicar of St Andrew’s Church in Wigan from 1878-1916, and in his spare time he took photographs of people...Continue Reading