But it’s a long time since Wigan Pier drew huge crowds ... with what used to be The Way We Were museum turned into an Altrincham Market-style food hall and distillery, the education centre ...

Wigan Pier is set for an exciting new future as multi ... and grain store built in 1790 which later became the Way We Were Museum. The Orwell, formerly Gibson’s Warehouse, was originally ...

Wigan Pier started as a music hall joke dreamt up ... there were hopes that The Way We Were might become a rugby league museum, but apart from the odd live performance in the yet-to-be completed ...

The next chapter of iconic landmark Wigan Pier's regeneration story has been ... which later became the Way We Were Museum, The Orwell public house and the Education Centre - stood as derelict ...

The Wigan Pier Experience is your three-dimensional ... Way We Were,” the re-creation of Wigan in 1900, and “Opie’s Museum of Memories,” a tour through 100 years of domestic life in ...

The former museum will become a distillery and microbrewery complete ... "We believe we are bringing something completely different to the area and our vision is to ensure that Wigan Pier becomes an ...

immortalised in George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, is failing to reach its potential as a visitor attraction. The pier's museum and visitor centre closed in 2007. Mr Molyneux said ...

The council said the pier, immortalised in George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, is failing to reach its potential as a visitor attraction. Its museum and visitor centre closed in 2007.

She added: “We understand the importance Wigan Pier has to local people and it ... who will be the main operator of the old museum, The Orwell and the education centre, said: “We are very ...

But more of that later. Wigan Pier is very much a working museum. True, these type of attractions inhabit towns the length and breadth of the country, but this particular one is second to none.

Plans to transform Wigan Pier into a striking multi-leisure destination look set ... Proposed is turning the former museum into a distillery and microbrewery complete with a food hall, the former ...