As part of our Road to Wigan Pier 2017 project, 80 years on from the publication of George Orwell's essay, pensions campaigner, Jan Fulster, explains why her generation are struggling - and ...

In 1984 and in Wigan Pier, Orwell’s polemic is less about history than about accommodating flight from modern life. We find it again in Coming Up for Air . It’s a commonplace and popular theme in ...

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 Orwell, the pub at Wigan Pier. Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based on the “three C’s”: coal, cotton, and canals.

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 ...

The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thank… ...

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 ...

The development partner of Wigan Council for the Wigan Pier complex of historic buildings is searching for leisure, culture and entertainment operators. Step Places is engaging the wider market for ...

As part of our Road to Wigan Pier 2017 project, 80 years on from the publication of George Orwell's essay, pensions campaigner, Jan Fulster, explains why her generation are struggling - and ...