Here we take a fond look back at Wiganers out and about enjoying themselves in times gone by.
13. Time for a chat and a glass of stout for old friends in the Market Hotel, Wigan, in the early 1970s.
. Photo: Frank Orrell
14. Retired miner's leader Joe Gormley in the Plough and Harrow pub in Shevington with wife Nellie and grandchildren Joy and Ian in November 1986.
Joe was born in Ashton-in-Makerfield in 1917 and became a miner aged just 14. He was president of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1971 until 1982 and was made a Labour Peer. Photo: Frank Orrell
15. Regulars outside the Blue Bell Inn on Rectory Road, Downall Green, in July 1972.
. Photo: Frank Orrell