BBC North West - Wigan Markets 1984

John Munday presents BBC North West, and the proposed plans for the Wigan Market site. 30 odd years later, some of the dialogue that was spoken at the time is utter garbage, mind you, do Councils ever do anything they say!

[@Blubatt]

And now its getting knocked down for a new development

[@georgehabib5086]

Brilliant miss the old day's 😍😍😍

[@uphollandlatic]

All those people interviewed who said they’d rather have it as it was were so right.

[@Embracing01]

Today it will be the reverse where all the clueless muppets with their stupid face nappies on will be welcoming it. Back then people had more backbone to say NO.

[@uphollandlatic]

@@Embracing01 Those 'clueless muppets with their stupid face nappies' are the ones that are keeping you and me safe. "back then' people didn't have 'more backbone to say NO' they fully understood the necessity to do things for the public good.

[@Embracing01]

​@@uphollandlatic You clearly watch BBC News or read the newspapers, otherwise you would realise that masks don't stop the spread of a virus because any small holes in them that tiny bacteria will pass through them, not only that but masks are harmful to your health it even says this on the WHO website. Also, it is not a law to wear one no matter how they try and convince it is. And forcing people to have a vaccine otherwise they face losing their job is against human rights.

[@cribb6376]

40 years later it's been demolished

[@Minecraft-pj4hm]

I remember being in Wigan Markets in summer 1976 getting my school uniform.

[@TheVicar]

I remember going in there and spending all the time trying to dodge all the falling pigeon shit

[@samensor-smith1062]

It's weird to see the plans of it before it was built. Now they are planning to demolish the whole thing.

[@emmajane646]

It was built to come down. You need to understand that Freemasons are Occultists and do rituals. Even the original market hall had a huge masonic ritual around the town before opening. They made the figure of a skull as they walked around. They are Occultists. Their beliefs stem from Babylon/Egypt but ultimately they are just satanists.

[@TheVicar]

@@emmajane646 Bless'ed art those who predicteth the rise and the fall
Or some shite like that

[@jackcro8825]

Very sad to see it now after 16 years it didn’t work out I know easy to say afterwards but that’s why you have people in charge to make these things right

[@shaunmorgan2202]

It was said at the time by a lot of people, I was in my teens at the time, and didn't care either way, but I remember the local response.

[@mariealty8934]

Good days but wigan council never learn

[@trollson66]

Well that went well...
I remember the old market hall as a place of wonder, from the joke shop to the live lobsters. Revolving doors! Wow. Perhaps the filter of childhood, but nowt like that from the mess thzt replaced it.

[@claudebylion9932]

Don’t spend money keeping the market tidy and then say it needs tidying up. Spend £30m to Destroy the whole ambience of the market hall.

[@tombridge1225]

It was clearly destined to be a disaster from day one! Council backhanders will have pushed this through.

[@Embracing01]

All about destroying the identity of the place and making every town all look the same.

[@emmajane646]

It was meant to come down. Freemasonic occultic ritual

[@shennmack]

Wigan clowncil

[@robertcatterall6514]

All Wigan should be nocked Down and Rebuilt ASAP 👍