Whistlestop Wigan...

At the end of last year we were delighted to be chosen to be Mag North's featured North West photographers of 2024. Selecting our 12 favourite north west photos of the year for the feature, led to a surprising (but not very exciting!) discovery! We had hardly any photos of our local area!

Now it is a known fact that most people 'travel' for days out and almost ignore their local attractions - not that Wigan really has any! But in the interests of supporting our local town, which has many interesting places and features and isn't just pies (as some people seem to think!) we decided we had better put that right.

When we first started Married with Grown ups back in 2016 one of our aims was to highlight the beauty and history of all our local northern towns (which are mostly ignored as tourist destinations) with the aim of maybe producing a guide. We used to plan walks around our local towns - Bury, Bolton, Salford and of course Wigan, spending many happy hours creating the routes, videoing, photographing and collating, but as it so often does, life (and covid) took over and we stopped mid project moving on to something else -as is the pattern of our life! Restless souls.

One of our first walks to a ruined bridge in Standish.

Another oldie from an area of Manchester which is now vastly different!

So one sunny, blue sky morning in May we decided to just take the cameras out on a whistlestop tour of Wigan. Good for your health and more importantly your soul we managed to visit lots of features of what is a great northern town and didn't even stop for a pie! Although I think we had a few mintballs!