Coalmining Heritage

Taken 30-Aug-11

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HRS 828 Wigan Pier 1995

Wigan Pier the butt of many musical jokes by George Formby and others is in fact a short extension of a tramway used to load coal on to boats on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal in Wigan.

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Keywords:1995, Leeds-Liverpool, Victorian, canal, canals, coal mining, coalmining, lancashire, musical hall, wigan pier wigan wharf