
Making of Wigan
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- Intro
- THE MAKING OF Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Acknowledgements
- ESTABLISHING THE TOWN
- Roman Wigan
- A Transitional Period
- The Barony of Makerfield
- The Medieval Parish
- The Legend of Mab's Cross
- Development of the Town
- Tudor Wigan
- The Reign of Edward VI
- Elizabethan Wigan
- TIMES OF CONFLICT
- Skirmishes
- The Siege of Wigan
- The Second Campaign
- The Battle of Wigan Lane
- The Jacobites of Standish Hall
- Jacobite Rebellions
- The Great War
- The Second World War
- 3 - THE TRANSPORT HUB
- Roads and Turnpikes
- The Douglas Navigation
- The Lancaster Canal
- Linking the Canals
- The Railway Age: the Wigan Branch Line
- Wigan's Railway Mania
- Expansion of the network
- Wigan's Railway Stations
- The Railway's Effect on the Canals
- The Transport Hub's Demise
- 4 - A TOWN BUILT ON COAL
- Early Mining
- Wigan's Victorian Collieries
- Working Conditions
- Strikes
- Accidents
- Mining Developments
- 5 - THE STORY OF SPINDLE TOWN
- Creation of the Mill Town
- Luddites and Radicals
- Halcyon days of the Cotton Industry
- Working Conditions
- The Plug-pulling Riots of 1842
- Wigan's Mills
- The Cotton Famine
- Twentieth Century Cotton
- 6 - VICTORIAN IMPROVEMENTS
- Law & Order
- Housing
- Public Health
- Utilities
- Local Government
- Libraries and Education
- Town Centre Development
- From tiny acorns grow .
- Birth of the Trams
- Leisure & Recreation
- Origins of a rugby town
- 7 - THE DECLINE AND FALL OF KING COAL
- The Maypole Colliery Disaster
- A Period of Dispute
- Amalgamation
- The National Coal Board
- The 1960s: Boom and Pit Closures
- The Energy Crisis
- The 1984 - 85 Miners' Strike
- The End of an Era
- The Miners' Legacy
- 8 - TWENTIETH CENTURY PROGRESS
- Poverty & Politics
- Housing
- Education
- Industrial Changes
- Town Centre Development
- Leisure & Recreation
- Growth of Rugby League
- Local Government Changes: Wigan out of Lancashire
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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