Here we take a fond look back at Wiganers out and about enjoying themselves in times gone by.
5. Student Marilyn Evans enters the gentlemen only bar in the Market Hotel, Mesnes Street, Wigan, on Monday 29th of December 1975, the first day of the new equality act for women.
For 50 years men only had crossed the threshold of the exclusively male only bar in the Wigan pub but the Sex Discrimination Act changed all that. Photo: Frank Orrell
6. A game of dominoes for members of Standish Ex Servicemen's Club on Church Street, Standish, in November 1971.
. Photo: Frank Orrell
7. Audience reaction to comedian Bernard Manning on stage at Poolstock Cricket Club on Tuesday night in August 1973.
. Photo: Frank Orrell
8. Sloopies disco on the corner of Dorning Street and King Street West in May 1971.
. Photo: Frank Orrell