Tom Walsh - Local Historian - Wigan Building Preservation Trust

I hope that some of the contents in these articles lead readers to look at my home town with fresh eyes (mine) and in so doing see through the mist of bigotry and misinformation deliberately peddled by a one-time police officer from Burma. Today, I think it would be described as 'fake news'. I may seem to have been dilatory in taking up the cudgel to right a wrong that incensed me on first reading of it almost 60 years ago at St John Fisher Secondary Modern School, but is no less heartfelt for the delay. I hope I have managed to portray my love for Wigan, to show why I have been moved to put pen to paper, or more correctly finger to i-pad. You see for me WIGAN has no PEER !

I hope you enjoy,

Tom

Articles

The Flag, Saints & Sinners

The tragic WW2 story of Ronald Walker

From Wirral to Wigan

Wigan has No Peer

Bath Time circa 1950

Christmas 1952

Empress Ball Room

First Day at School

First Day at Work