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Welcome to Wigan & Leigh Archives Online
our new photographic and collections website
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News
'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...
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...
Archives Closure Period
Posted on 23rd Jul 2024 by Thomas McGrath
We’ve just completed our first week of our annual closure period, during which we shut to the public and do essential maintenance work with our collections. We’ve had a busy first week and all the team were involved in different tasks...