Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based ... for the book published as The Road to Wigan Pier. Now everyone can relive the bad old days at the Wigan ...

Rita says: “Wiganers’ sweat helped power the industrial revolution and make Britain ... Liverpool canal is now ear-marked as “The Wigan Pier Quarter”, a new “retail and leisure ...

We are retracing the journey George Orwell made in his book, The Road to Wigan Pier, throughout 2017 to tell modern stories of working and unemployed poverty. They'll appear in a regular series in ...

A city known for its industrial past ... taking on different iterations. Wigan Pier: The Dance Revolution That iteration came in the instance of Dance and House music in the late 1980s and ...

Wigan Pier is set for an exciting new ... explosion of the house music and rave scene. Currently the Pier’s three 18th century industrial buildings stand as derelict eyesores, but the new ...

The redevelopment of Wigan Pier will start in early 2023 - more than three years after plans were first announced. The final section of the former Wigan Pier Nightclub, popular during the 1990s ...

The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thanks to the ...

A planning application proposing the overhaul of the iconic Wigan Pier to provide new homes, an artisan food hall and events spaces have been submitted. The project to redevelop the disused 18th ...

to take forward a world-class vision to transform the historic Wigan Pier Quarter into a striking modern destination. The plans to transform the currently derelict 18th century industrial ...