As part of our Road to Wigan Pier 2017 project, 80 years on from the publication of George Orwell's essay, former textile worker, Jean Faulkner, reflects on life in Orwell's time.

I left work a day before I was 61 and because of that they said I wouldn’t get 20 per cent of my pension. It wasn’t fair but I was so busy with everything that was going on that I accepted it.

Work on the iconic Wigan Pier, that was promised redevelopment back in 2019, is finally set to start in early 2023. Plans for the site, known as the inspiration for George Orwell’s 1937 novel ...

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.

The redevelopment of Wigan Pier will start in early 2023 - more than three years after plans were first announced.

Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has disappeared in recent days. Many may have presumed it had been taken away for ...

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 coming to the newly reopened 051 nightclub on Saturday December 2, for one night and one night only. The two celebrated and historic dance clubs will collaborate to re-ignite ...

Plans have been revealed for a new canal-side leisure and entertainment complex in Wigan. The project in the Greater Manchester town will feature a 1,200-seat performance venue, new homes, shops ...

One gobbet under that head is a quote from George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (published in 1937) concerning the “sinister magnificence” of nocturnal Sheffield: “serrated flames, like ...

News Wigan Wigan Pier's transformation from eyesore to centre of 'beauty and vibrancy' set to start “It is unfortunate that delays caused by Covid pandemic and inflationary pressures have led to ...