Wigan is known for many things – the pier, rugby league, pies – but one music genre and one venue has made the place more globally famous than anything else. In the seventies, Wigan Casino was ...

Gemma Davies said: "This is heart breaking had the best times in there & met the best of friends." James Nestor said: "Wigan Pier and Wigan Casino,two of the most iconic clubs of the last 40 years ...

Ian McCartney, MP for Makerfield, wants to turn part of the Wigan Pier area into a venue to acknowledge the role the Wigan Casino played in the town. The nightclub was the spiritual home of Northern ...

Wigan Casino held its first Northern Soul all-nighter on 23 September 1973, originally starting at 02:00 before moving to a midnight opening. For eight years, the club was the epicentre of an ...

Wigan Pier was made famous by author George Orwell, whose 1937 book, ... with the former Casino nightclub voted the world’s best disco by Rolling Stone magazine in 1978, ...

The Pier, immortalised by George Orwell’s graphic 1937 description of the plight of the working class in his book ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’, was originally a loading jetty where wagons would ...

The redevelopment of Wigan Pier is set to begin in the early part of this year. The final section of the former Wigan Pier Nightclub, which was a popular venue during the ’90s house and rave ...

In August 1965, Wigan Casino opened its doors for the first time inviting people into a sweaty yet captivating mecca filled with the spirit and sounds of Northern Soul. Almost 50 years later, the ...

Wigan Pier, complete with its The Way We Were Museum including a Victorian schoolroom, was in the late 1980s to early 2000s one of the biggest tourist attractions in the North West but then was ...

It's 50 years since Wigan Casino hosted the first of its legendary Northern Soul all-nighters. Wigan Casino: Northern Soul finds a new crowd on nightclub's 50th anniversary Skip to main content ...