Wigan

Trencherfield Mill, Wigan, a fantastic example of Victorian industrial architecture

Wigan Pier...it has been a long-running joke, however it's definitely a pier

Trencherfield Mill

Wigan's MarketGate shopping centre is a huge Postmodern shopping centre including an indoor market. Like a lot of shopping centres from the same era, the centre is only partially enclosed, the rest is a pastiche of a traditional town square and like the facade shown here, only makes a half hearted attempt to blend in with the surrounding buildings.

Wigan city hall is a typical 1960s concrete construction

Road closed in Wigan

Subway in Wigan

The MarketGate shopping centre is a stylised pastiche of traditional architectural styles

Fine old buildings in Wigan

This beautiful Victorian tiled pub is boarded up and closed...shameful. Hopefully it will soon find a new owner rather than being converted into (yawn) luxury apartments

Wigan town centre, the MarketGate centre is on the right

Wigan town centre

The Wiend is a historic area of Wigan

Lovely gardens in Wigan town centre

Lovely gardens in Wigan town centre

Wigan Wallgate station and the luridly coloured Victoria Hotel

Nightclub posters adorn this fine old derelict building

A rather uninspiring looking JobCentre

Wigan International Pool is a simple but attractive expression of function over form

This concrete bunker-like structure was used as a Police station until recently and is one of several in Lancashire with the same design

Wigan International Pool

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