I've made some improvements to the I remember section, namely:

• Paging. 50 memories per page displayed.
• Most recent memories now displayed first (rather than at the end).
• Future posts will have a date against them.

I will be making similar changes to the memories section soon.

I've updated the links page. All the broken links have been removed and I've added a couple of new sites.

Another local sponsor has joined wiganworld, it is Link Private Hire. Please show your support, thanks.

I'll be back with more updates soon, hopefully sooner than the last update!

Has a week passed since I last posted? Where does the time go?

I've been busy updating historyworld and we've done another walk down along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with more walks planned soon.

Will add more links to wiganworld soon and get rid of the defunct ones. I'm also in touch with a couple of new contacts to publish some interesting stuff from years gone by.

I've been inundated with material lately, thanks to all that have contributed.

Some local businesses have been added to the Wigan Directory, please show your support and take a look at the listings, thanks.

A new statue of Fred Dibnah has been unveiled in Bolton on Tuesday. Tony Haslam has kindly sent in some photos.

Also, some more local poetry has been added to wiganworld by Sue Ward.

Finally, I have more updates lined up and a couple of new links to add. Watch this space.

Westwood Cemetery index is now online.

Freda Chorlton has been busy again (you deserve a medal Freda) and wiganworld now contains a searchable index of Westwood as well as Wigan cemetery.

Westwood index covers the period from 12th January, 1946 to 31st December, 2007. In total there are almost 5,700 name to search.

Visit the Westwood Cemetery Index.

Volume 1 of the cemetery index covering 3rd September, 1856 to 23rd July, 1865 has been updated.

Freda Chorlton has since added the religions and grave numbers to each record, over 8,000 of them.

Thanks for all your hard work Freda.

The streets section is doing well.

Since going live with version 8 a couple of days ago, we have notched up another percent and we're now over 76% of the way there.

A big thank you to everyone that has uploaded photos.

Lets see if we can complete this section this year, I have a feeling that we might do it.

I'll be out and about with my camera soon.

Visit the wiganworld streets section.

Version 8 of wiganworld is here, hope you like it!

Major changes are:

New re-design and colour scheme, pretty obvious really. ;o)

Streets section has been opened up so anyone can upload their photos.

New home page. Access any of the 5 wiganworld galleries with 2 clicks. eg, click photo-a-day, then click the photo.

More improvements on the way. I have my eyes on the memories, expats and other sections.

Please note: I'm still having problems with image uploading to the server - it's like finding a needle in a haystack this one, but I'll persist.

There seems to be a problem with image uploads at the moment.

This applies to images that are uploaded site wide, including the album and member photos.

If your image does not appear, please try again or wait for another notice here.

I'm looking into the problem now.

** UPDATE **

I've been messing about with some memory settings and uploaded a few pics and all seems fine.

Not sure if we are 100% or not..... will monitor the situation.....

** UPDATE 2 **

Back to the drawing board - still having problems...

** UPDATE 3 **

I've temporarily disabled uploading of photos to the album to avoid disappointment. More soon...

 ** UPDATE 4 **

The album is 'live' again and I will monitor the situation. Seems like it may have been a corrupt folder in Linux! Googled it and found very little so decided to take action myself. If it works, I may publish the solution in the hope that it may help others. Why is nothing ever easy? lol.

We've had an email from someone seeking your help, quote:

I am currently studying for a Masters degree in Sociological Research at Manchester University and for my dissertation I plan to examine the effect of Walking Days on community morale. I am looking for a range of people who would be willing to spend an hour talking to me about their experiences of Walking Days over the years. I am particularly interested in finding some younger people and those who may not have taken part as children themselves whilst their friends did.

If you can spare an hour, please send me an email: brian@wiganworld.co.uk - thank you.

Still busy updating wiganworld to version 8, more soon...