Market Street Wigan in 1894. The photo offers a glimpse of the poverty in Victorian Wigan at that time. Notice the lack of vehicles and the white sheets or canvasses over the shop windows to keep out the summer sunshine and prevent fabrics fading and foodstuffs from going off. On the left side of the street appears to be an iron-mongers. Galvanised buckets are piled up outside the shop. On the right is the shop shop Freeman, Hardy and Willis"
