Wigan Pier : The facts and fictions of an enduring Music Hall joke
John Hannavy
144 pages. 210x148mm. Printed on gloss art paper, card covers.
ISBN13 : 9781911038139
£9.99
Contents
INTRODUCTION 5
SETTING THE SCENE 13
A CUT ABOVE THE REST 27
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN WIGAN 47
WIGAN’S COALFIELDS 63
THAT ENDURING JOKE 85
THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER 116
TODAY AND TOMORROW 138
FURTHER READING 142
INDEX 143
Index
Alexandra Music Hall, 57-8
Alexandra Pit, Whelley, 81
Anderton, John and Lily, 123
Bamforth & Company, 86, 136-7
Bankes, Meyrick, 7, 76, 89, 111, 139-140
Barclay, Andrew & Sons, 75
Barton, John, 60
Bennett, A.R., 87
Bibby, Robert, 60
Bickershaw Colliery, 65
Blackburn, James, 83, 86, 103
Blair, Eric, see Orwell, George
Blenkinsop, John, 72
Blundell’s Collieries, 74-5, 79, 122-3
Blundell, Jonathan & Company, 75
Booth, James (Lawler) see Formby, George, Snr
British Pathé Newsreels, 111
British Waterways Board, 38
Brookers’ Tripe Shop and Lodging House, 124-5, 139
Broomfield Colliery Company, 54
Brown, Barnes & Bell, 57
Bursledon Brickworks, 52
Central Pier, Blackpool, 14
Chaplin, Charlie, 98-101, 104
Clark, John, 75-6
Clevedon Pier, 82-3
Cockburn, Philips & Montgomery, 39
Cooper, John, 56, 59-60, 66, 68, 77
Dalglish, Robert, 72, 75-6
Defoe, Daniel, 78-9
Dennis, E. T. W., 93
Douglas Bank Signal Box, 90-91, 137
Douglas Navigation, 28, 32, 34, 36, 71
Dryden, Leo, 109
Dugdale, Thomas, 59-60, 68
Dunston Staithe, 105
Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, 54
Edison, Thomas, 100
Eight Lancashire Lads, The, 100
Empire Palace Music Hall, 59
Empress Ballroom, 124
Fields, Gracie, 98
Fly-boats, 35
Fforde, Jasper, 113, 115
Formby, George Junior, 55, 61, 84-5, 96, 106-8, 111, 113, 139
Formby, George Senior, 55, 61, 84-7, 89-90, 92, 95-105, 108, 122, 137, 139
Foulsham & Banfield, 99
Gibson’s Cotton Warehouse, 21
Gidlow Mills, 49-50
Glen & Ross, 47
Gloucester, HRH Duke of, 130, 134
Godwin, Will, 109
Grand Hippodrome Theatre, 98
Grounds, Ellen, 68
Haigh Foundry, 49, 51, 56, 75-6
Hilton, John T. ,18-19, 112, 132-4
Historical Publishing Company, 49
Holcroft, Thomas, 56
Houghton Weavers, 83
History of Wigan (Spencer), 28-9
History of Wigan (Whitehouse), 41
Housing Act 1924, 135
Housing Act 1936, 126
Howe Bridge Rescue Station, 71
Huxley, Aldous, 126
Illustrated London News, 69
In Search of England, 14, 18
In Search of Scotland, 14
Jackley, Nat, 100
Jolley’s Old Dog Music Hall, 56
Karno, Fred, 101
Kirby, Rick, 138-9
Kirkless Hall Company, 54
Kirkless Works, 56, 72
Lamb & Moore’s Colliery, 91, 94, 100
Lancashire & Cheshire Miners’ Federation,
89-90
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 57, 72
Lauder, Harry, 104
Lawler, James Booth, see Formby, George, Snr
Lee, Robert ‘Bert’, 107-110
Leeds & Liverpool Canal 24, 27-45, 56, 71, 78, 91
Little, Robert, 64-5, 68
Little Tich, 99
Liverpool Docks, 34-6
Lloyd, Marie, 99
London & North Western Railway, 57, 72
Manchester Guardian, The, 22, 25, 110-11, 117, 131
Mawson, Lucy, 58
May Mills, 122-3
Mayor, James, 35
Maypole Colliery, 69, 71
Mesnes Park, 50-51, 122, 132
Millard, James, 54, 58, 61, 68
Millard, Lucy, 58
Monks, Dr E. Hodkinson, 112
Morton, Henry Vollam, 13-15, 18, 85, 111, 115
Munby, Arthur, 66-8, 70
Museum of Wigan Life, 133, 141
Naylor, J.H., 67
North Union Railway, 57
Orrell Colliery, 75
Orwell, George, 5, 14-15, 78, 93-6, 103, 112,
115-137
Pagefield Ironworks, 56
Park Forge, 121
Pavilion Picturedrome, 113
Pearson’s Flash, 39, 103
Pemberton Collieries, 74-5, 79, 122-3
Percy, Thomas, 72
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 21
Platt, James, 60
Powell, Sir Francis Sharp, 51, 53
Quaker House Colliery, 81
Ramsden, Alderman Thomas, 13
Relph, Harry, 99
Rigby, William, 47
Roburite Explosives Company, 56
Robey, George, 99
Royal Military School of Music, 87
Ryland, John, 49
Scotsman’s Flash, 39
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 128
Scott, Sir John, 133
Semmet-Solvay Company, The, 54
Smith, Will, 9, 69
Southport Pier, 16-17
Spencer, David, 28-9, 32
Standish & Shevington Coal & Cannel Company, 54
Starr, James, 13, 65
Sterling, Louis, 105
Susannah Place, Sydney, Australia, 125
Taylor, Thomas, 68
The Building of England, 21
The Ballad of Wigan Pier (song), 83, 141
The Road to Wigan Pier, 14, 95, 117-137
Tilley, Vesta, 57
Tivoli Music Hall, London, 98
Trencherfield Mill, 8, 25, 40, 47, 60, 140-141
Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls, 61
Walker Brothers, 53, 55
Waterhouse, Alfred, 118-9, 141
Weston, Robert Patrick, 107-110
Whitehouse, Thomas, 41
Wigan & District Mining & Technical College, 5,
127, 129
Wigan a Century Ago, 49-50
Wigan Boys Club, 130
Wigan Casino, 124
Wigan Coal & Iron Company, 54, 56, 72-3
Wigan Junction Railway, 57
Wigan Observer, The, 23, 57, 69
Wigan Pier (song), 107-110
Wigan Town & Country Rambles, 18-19, 132-4
Williams-Ellis, Clough, 106-8, 111
Williams, Harry, 125
Wills, Colin, 95
Winstanley, Jack, 5, 7, 83, 108, 141
Woods, John & Company, 52, 56