Plans were unveiled to turn the former Orwell pub into an events ... That's not changed or our enthusiasm.” Wigan Pier started as a music hall joke dreamt up by George Formby Snr who glamourised ...

In “The Road to Wigan Pier”, George Orwell, the English essayist and political satirist, analysed the currents of social and economic discontent in the United Kingdom at a time of great social ...