The football team used to be a joke, just like the pier and the songs of famous son George Formby. But Wigan is about to gatecrash the Premiership, and this Lancashire town is looking for respect.

The joke caught on locally, and then the music-hall comedians got hold of it, and they are the ones who have succeeded in keeping Wigan Pier alive as a by-word, long after the place itself had ...

Wiganer Karen Stephen takes the road to Wigan Pier and finds plenty to enjoy in the winter months. COMING from Wigan, I have long been aware of the old music hall joke regarding Wigan Pier. And, I ...

New uncertainty hangs over the future of Wigan’s once massively popular Pier tourist attraction today after the council confirmed that it and the developer which has restored the famous ...

Wigan Pier is a historic site on the Leeds ... It became famous through a music hall joke by George Formby Snr and through its appearance in the title of George Orwell’s graphic ...

Wigan Pier Wallgate Wigan WN3 4EU Tel: 01942 323666 www.wlct.org. Monday - Thursday 10am - 5pm Sunday 11am - 5pm Closed: Fridays and Saturdays . Admission: Adults é3.95, Concession é2.95 ...

The redevelopment of Wigan Pier will start in early 2023 - more than three years after plans were first announced. The final section of the former Wigan Pier Nightclub, popular during the 1990s ...

Road to Wigan Pier 2017: Recreating George Orwell's journey 80 years on and mapping modern Britain. In 1937, Orwell's book about poverty in Northern England shocked the country.