People
(pages about ordinary people who reflect Wigan's history)
Thomas Darwell - mill ownerthe Fairclough family - weavers-1
the Fairclough family - weavers-2
Mary Cook, mining widow
Richard F. Cook, mining hero
James Taylor - miner
William Lord, teacher, part 1
William Lord, part 2
William Lord, part 3
Henry Brown - pupil teacher
Miscellaneous
The History of Elnup WoodOatcakes
The Origins of Hindley and Abram Grammar School
Hindley and Abram Grammar School, the new building
The History Shop
a strange marriage
Battle of Wigan Lane
Cockersand Abbey
Coal Mining
clearing the "fierydamp" (1751)Cannel
more about cannel
Roman Mining
Mining Accidents
Two Explosions
Textiles
hand weavers-1hand weavers-2
hand weavers-3
early mills - development
early mills - conditions
The Cloth Hall
Early History
RomansCoccium
Origin of Place-name
Arthur in Wigan?
Transport
colliery railwaysYorkshire Horse
The First Trams to Pemberton
Pemberton Trams, Danger
How Others Have Seen us
John Ogilby, 1675George Orwell, (1937), part 1
George Orwell, (1937), part 2
George Orwell, (1937) part 3
William Dodd (1841)
Celia Fiennes (1696)
Medieval History
The Lost Land of Occleshaw, part 1The Lost Land of Occleshaw, part 2
Medieval Norley Hall
feudal homage
Norse Settlement
Anglo-Saxons, part 1
Anglo-Saxons, part 2
Wigan in the Domesday Book
Wigan in the 11th century - part 1
Wigan in the 11th century- part 2
Which languge was spoken in Wigan in the 11th century?
Standish Copyholders
Crime and Punishment
StocksPoverty
Alice Battersby, apprenticed pauper (1805)Betty Battersby, fallen woman (1795)
miners in 1842
weavers in 1842
John bird, 1840
Hallgate in 1849
Privilege
privilege, Wigan area, 1664mill owners
mine owners
Wells
Wigan SpaPingate Well
Standish Wells
burning wells