I'm led to believe these are new (old) Wigan photo's:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Never knew Stephen Fry went to Wigan ;)

Edited January 9, 201411 yr by Barry

Great quality photos, makes it look like yesterday!  A change from all the little scrapbook snaps.

 

I had forgotten some of those people in the pictures, it's only when you see them you remember!

Edited January 9, 201411 yr by Guest

Piss taking apart , great quality piccies 

Some of these pics are on a flyer for the 2nd Ann nighter sept 1975

I would say, definitely a weeknight do.

 

Paul

Weeknight do's were difficult....take yer bird on the 640 on a Thursday and sit on the balcony whilst The Nutty Boys did their stuff underneath..am I dating myself there?? ;)..I always oddly on the midweek do's used to sit above where I used to sit at all nighters...three pints and a fumble and I tried to get out and to the bus station home before I got the Wigan Lad....'You're near the gas Marrer' line.

One thing I will say is that I'm pleased I did used to go to Wigan in real life....as it was a very different place when it weren't a Nighter...I saw, smelt and felt it in a very different way at that time...I saw it in real time.

By the wY in case you're wondering I am still in the pub...I have had no tea...and this fifth pint is kicking in haha.

Speak to you in the morning, before I become Barold Of Old ;) x

These pics have been available for years.I used one or two of them for  flyers in 2002.

They look like some swings to me?

 

 

On the pictures, I'm not a fan of 70s northern soul attire at the best of time, but dear lord the kids in the earlier pictures cant be hard core northern soul followers can they?!?    

 

I'm afraid we all dressed like that in 75, I was only 14 though

Caption reads: Dance competition, Kings Hall, Stoke 2013

Mike Walker suited left hand side of photo ??

Tfk

Caption reads: Dance competition, Kings Hall, Stoke 2013

Everybody is very dolled up and clean ay?

Yep look to squeaky and polishedBarry for a Saturday night at WC - 11th photo down Mike Walker ( left hand side of snap ) suited and booted ..

tfk

Edited January 9, 201411 yr by tfk

These pics have been available for years.I used one or two of them for  flyers in 2002.

 

 

do these libraries merge

 

there's some cleethorpes from the same place that sure i posted up here a bit back

 

https://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/index.php?SEARCHTXT1=cleethorpes&SEARCHMODE=NEW&TABLIGHTBOX=RESULT&UURL=8bef8d8af64466d0aab62cf6ff0ef4f6

Yep look to squeaky and polishedBarry for a Saturday night at WC - 11th photo down Mike Walker ( left hand side of snap ) suited and booted ..

tfk

Spotted fella....as an aside...just come home drunk as (Missus' Dads,our Harry''s, funeral in the morning you see).... And thanks to my current drunken gay abandon...you know how you are when emotions run high and you need to get pissed lads....have just made a right stone cold killing on six records.from the Bay.

Cheers Harry...see you in the morning lad. X

Linda Jones JCLML....Astors Candy....the Volumes GGHL....Louise Brown Son In Law...Ruby Andrews JLY....Danny White CUOY...Coke Ecovedo MIS.....£109.00

 

And the guy on the end in the paisley shirt looks like  Charlie Reese

 

Genuine question - what are those wooden (?) structures in the background?

 

It must be obvious but I'm not getting it . . . . . . . . .

 

These lads are the Casino Crusaders, taking a well earned break from manning the trebuchets, as they lay siege to the nearby hamlet of Warrington.

These lads are the Casino Crusaders, taking a well earned break from manning the trebuchets, as they lay siege to the nearby hamlet of Warrington.

 

OMG - of course.

 

I knew they reminded me of something!

OMG - of course.

 

I knew they reminded me of something!

 

At the command "Unleash Hell", a load of Pye Disco Demand 7" singles rain down on the unsuspecting townsfolk.

These lads are the Casino Crusaders, taking a well earned break from manning the trebuchets, as they lay siege to the nearby hamlet of Warrington.

You flash git, i was gonna metion Tre bu watsits but couldn't remember the name for em !! Full Marks

You flash git, i was gonna metion Tre bu watsits but couldn't remember the name for em !! Full Marks

 

Remember taking the kids to Warwick Castle years ago and they had a working trebuchet in the grounds which they actually fired.  Very impressive.