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A town in N W Eng Home to great music 🎶 like The Verve & The Lathums A World Champion RL Team Amazing Victorian Architecture 2013 FA Cup winners Wigan Athletic Town built on Coal Mines & Cotton Mills Where George Orwell visited in 1936 Town of ❤️

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Day trip to Liverpool

01.11.2025 18:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wigan Athletic 1-1 Hemel Hempstead Town: Latics win on penalties Ten-man Wigan Athletic survive a huge scare against National League South side Hemel Hempstead Town to reach the FA Cup second round on penalties.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

01.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Luke Humphries makes Players Championship Finals as Luke Littler criticises officials World number one Luke Humphries scrapes into the Players Championship Finals as reigning world champion Luke Littler criticises tournament officials.

Humphries qualifies as Littler criticises officials - www.bbc.com/sport/darts/...
#Wigan #Darts 🎯

31.10.2025 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you can't make it along, you can get the book through most bookshops, and you can order rhe prints, calendars and Christmas cards through my website at www.thisismyglasgow.com/shop.

#glasgow #byresroad

28.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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#Magic of the FA Cup

28.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Foundation stone for Alfred Waterhouse's Manchester Town Hall was laid on this day 1868. Took almost 10 years to erect at a cost approaching £1m, described as ‘unequalled for size, completeness and adaptability for its purpose among the municipal buildings of Europe’.

26.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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Effort and pride certainly but Kangaroos showed why they are World No 1.
Like in any sport,if you don't take your opportunities v a very strong opponent then you will pay.
Looking forward to seeing the rematch in 7 days.

25.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Point on the road ⚽️

25.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The team 🦁

25.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Team news 🏐

25.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good luck to our Wembley warriors today. Tune in this pm on BBC 1 at 2pm if you wanna see a proper sport.

25.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Match Day

25.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great gig by Ian Prowse thanks to the Early Doors Club at St George's Church in Tyldesley

25.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I know I am biased but I would certainly have Harry on the bench.

23.10.2025 12:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Squad news 🤔

23.10.2025 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Corridors of power

23.10.2025 06:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Fungi in #Wigan

22.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Winstanley Hall ready for #Halloween 🦇

21.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👏👏👏

21.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Winstanley Hall #History

21.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Given the Victoria Hotel in #Wigan the magic AI touch.

19.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thanks to everyone who came to my talk yesterday @wiganmuseum.bsky.social.

19.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wigan Building Preservation Trust Wigan Building Preservation Trust. Discovering and protecting the history and heritage of Wigan. Lots of research materials Mining, Cotton & Famine, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Douglas Navigation, Hindle...

www.wiganlocalhistory.org?fbclid=IwdGR...
For those of us who love #Wigan #History

19.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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3 points ✅️

18.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Team news ⚽️

18.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enjoy the delights of North London 🙂

18.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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See you tomorrow @wiganmuseum.bsky.social for my last #talk in 2025 🙂

17.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Up for the Cup 🏆

17.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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