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Dishes little-known in the South are favourite delicacies with the men and women of Wigan - cow-heel pie, black puddings, and tripe are specialities. Wiganers eat well, when wages allow.
A converted Corporation 'bus is their ambulance. Their post is in some school buildings. Wigan is a neutral area. Children have not been evacuated, but no new ones have been brought in.
In Wigan's Library of 100,000 Volumes
Seventh largest public library in Britain. Its 1,000 books of Shakespeareana, its "incunabula" (all dating back before A.D.1,500), its mining reference works, are famous. In charge for 20 years has been Mr. Arthur Hawkes.
An Indispensable Figure - the Clog-maker
James Heywood is 71 years old, and for 58 of them he's been making clogs in Fairclough's shop. Heywood's father and grandfather made good, sound, noisy clogs before him - such as most Wigan workers wear.
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A Geography Class in Wigan Grammar School
Secondary school boys of Wigan are lively, intelligent. They work in a modern building, secure a high proportion of University scholarships. Teaching the geography class is Mr. R. H. Walker.
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