Volume 10 of the cemetery index covering 14th February, 1923 to 27th April, 1932 has been updated.

Freda Chorlton has since added the religions and grave numbers to each record, over 9,100 of them.

Thanks Freda.

There have been a few issues with the site today, with blogs disappearing temporarily and the site being unavailable etc. Things are back to normal for the time being at least.

I've moved all my other sites to another server which has been 'up' for 53 days as I type this.

Hopefully I'll be able to migrate wiganworld soon. Gigabytes of data and images are putting me off doing it at the mo, but the longer I leave it the more the information grows.

Many Thanks to Ron Hunt for loaning me an official booklet of the unveiling of Wigan War Memorial on Saturday, October 17th, 1925.

The booklet contains lots of information about the memorial, including size and costs involved at the time, as well as a full order of service and roll of honour.

The War Memorial was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A.

Unveiling of the War Memorial.

Just a quickie... If you have an account with facebook, a new "wigan world" group has been created and you're welcome to join:

 The URL is here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7395609595

The wiganworld album is doing great - it won't be too long before we pass the 5,000 mark!

Thanks to all that have uploaded photos, please keep them coming.

Anyway, as the album is my favourite part of the site I will put my neck on the line.... (I may regret publishing this, lol).

New Service.

If you have some old photos for the album but are struggling adding them to the site or you don't have access to a scanner - please email me and I will help. I can be contacted by email - brian@wiganworld.co.uk

I can arrange to collect photos, scan them, add them to the album on your behalf and return your photos. It will be a local service only!

If you have old photos that could go in the album, please do email me and I'll arrange it with you, thank you.

As mentioned earlier, I've been updating more websites.

historyworld is coming along - lots of old ads have been added as well as a few photos, fashion images and retro images.

I have some brilliant books and mags to rummage through from the early 1900's to the mid 1950's. Anything of interest will go on the site.

If anyone has any ideas for new content, please leave a comment.

Be it games, quizzes, more interactive sections - I'm open to suggestions.

Ta.

Brian

...is good news as they say.

It's time I wrote something as I haven't done so for a few days. As usual I'm very busy with updating various websites - believe it or not I have 23 of them, and I'm still looking for more.

If you think wiganworld is being neglected, it isn't. I've been out and about taking pics for photo-a-day, I've received lots of emails and content that will be added soon. Thanks for all your pics 'n stuff, please keep 'em coming. Ta.

Roll on Spring and Summer when I can go 'playing out' again after work, lol.

More soon......

All the best to all wiganworlders for 2008. 

Doesn't time fly?

Busy as ever updating a number of sites. I will be spending more time on the historyworld site in the next few weeks as it it getting more popular. I will also be updating wiganworld when I get the chance.

Thanks to everyone for their emails and well wishes over the festive season. I hope you all had a good time and I'll take this opportunity to thank you and wish you all the best for the New Year.

Oh, and if you've been out recently with your new camera that you got for Christmas and have taken a nice photo, please send it to me for the Photo-a-Day section.