Advantages: Good for older people and school groups. Theatre group excellent Disadvantages: Hard to find. expensive if you only have a quick look round
...The other major thing about Wigan is that although it is miles away from the coast it has its pier featured in the title of the George Orwell classic "The Road To Wigan Pier" and also in a number of old music hall jokes. It also inspired the building of the first heritage centre in Britain, in the early 1980s, the Wigan Pier Experience. What is the Wigan Pier Experience? The Wigan Pier Experience, as mentioned, was the first heritage centre in the ... ...revolves around the town of Wigan at the end of the Victorian era in 1900. If you want more details to the background of this attraction and an interesting perspective on it read Robert Hewison's The Heritage Industry. I have visited twice. Once as a field trip with my Heritage Studies course and the second time with my in laws as I though it might appeal to them.
How to get there? I travelled by train but the website says it is easy to get to from ...
duskmaiden 17.02.2006
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