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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA10,Merseyside,England,UK,WA10 1DH,Bickerstaffe St,interchange,route,service,Merseytravel,centre,centres,stop,stops,stand,stands,travel,travellers,commuting,commuter,commuters,Arriva,Wigan,352,connectivity,region,regional,getting,around,town,Merseyside bus services,tourist,attraction,attractions,Metropolitan Borough,of,the
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAP3AM - St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which covers a larger area around the town.
The town had a population of 102,629 at the 2011 Census, the wider borough around 183,200 at the 2021 Census.
It is 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of the River Mersey, in the south-west part of historic Lancashire. The town was formerly within the historic county's ancient hundred of West Derby as a small settlement in the township of Windle. By the mid 1700s, it had become larger than Windle and (by 1838) it was formally made responsible for the administration of Windle and the three other townships of Eccleston, Parr and Sutton. In 1868, it was incorporated as a town with a municipal borough. The borough later became a county borough in 1887 and replaced by a metropolitan borough with an expanded administrative responsibility for nearby towns and villages in 1974.
Coal mining and glassmaking were the significant sectors that caused growth into a town during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass producer Pilkington is the town's only remaining large industrial employer
previously, it was home to Beechams, the Gamble Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass. United Glass Bottles, Triplex, Daglish Foundry They were also other sectors: sail making and other cotton and linen work which lasted until the mid-19th century
brewing (Greenall's brewery)
copper smelting as well as pits for salt, lime and alkali extraction
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA10,Merseyside,England,UK,WA10 1DH,Bickerstaffe St,interchange,route,service,Merseytravel,centre,centres,stop,stops,stand,stands,travel,travellers,commuting,commuter,commuters,Arriva,Wigan,352,connectivity,region,regional,getting,around,town,Merseyside bus services,tourist,attraction,attractions,Metropolitan Borough,of,the
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAP3AW - St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which covers a larger area around the town.
The town had a population of 102,629 at the 2011 Census, the wider borough around 183,200 at the 2021 Census.
It is 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of the River Mersey, in the south-west part of historic Lancashire. The town was formerly within the historic county's ancient hundred of West Derby as a small settlement in the township of Windle. By the mid 1700s, it had become larger than Windle and (by 1838) it was formally made responsible for the administration of Windle and the three other townships of Eccleston, Parr and Sutton. In 1868, it was incorporated as a town with a municipal borough. The borough later became a county borough in 1887 and replaced by a metropolitan borough with an expanded administrative responsibility for nearby towns and villages in 1974.
Coal mining and glassmaking were the significant sectors that caused growth into a town during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass producer Pilkington is the town's only remaining large industrial employer
previously, it was home to Beechams, the Gamble Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass. United Glass Bottles, Triplex, Daglish Foundry They were also other sectors: sail making and other cotton and linen work which lasted until the mid-19th century
brewing (Greenall's brewery)
copper smelting as well as pits for salt, lime and alkali extraction
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R8T9GW -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF764 - The Wigan Casino was a nightclub in Wigan, England. Operating between 1973 and 1981, it became known as a primary venue for Northern soul music. It carried forward the legacy created by clubs such as the Twisted Wheel in Manchester, the Chateau Impney (Droitwich), the Catacombs (Wolverhampton) and the Golden Torch (Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent). It remains one of the most famous clubs in Northern England. In 1978, allegedly the American music magazine Billboard voted Wigan Casino The Best Disco in the World, ahead of New York City's Studio 54. Although there is no tangible evidence of this award ever being publicised.
This England, a TV documentary about the Wigan Casino, was filmed in 1977. Russ Winstanley and Dave Nowell wrote a history of the club, Soul Survivors, The Wigan Casino Story, which was published in 1996.
Wigan Casino was the name of the last incarnation of a Wigan ballroom called the Empress. Local DJs Brian Rigby and Alan Cain approached lease owner Gerry Marshall to run all-nighters. Venue manager Mike Walker brought in Russ Winstanley, who had a DJ set at the local rugby club, to the Casino. At 2 am on Sunday 23 September 1973, Wigan Casino started its first-ever Northern soul all-nighter, with Winstanley as the DJ. After Winstanley and his helper Ian Fishwick, Kev Roberts was the third DJ at Casino all-nighters, who was quickly joined by Richard Searling Soul performers that performed there include Jackie Wilson, Edwin Starr and Junior Walker.
Young people from all over the UK regularly attended Wigan Casino to hear the latest northern soul artists and to dance. There were long queues to get in. The second dance floor, Mr M's, stayed open until 6 am and played oldies songs from a variety of DJs including Dave Evison and Steve Whittle. All-nighters generally ended with three songs that became known as the '3 before 8': Time Will Pass You By by Tobi Legend, Long After Tonight Is All Over by Jimmy Radcliffe, and I'm on My Way by Dean Parrish.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF79K - Buzzcocks is an English punk rock band formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto. They are regarded as a seminal influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, and pop punk. They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, an acclaimed compilation album described by music journalist and critic, Ned Raggett, as a punk masterpiece.
Devoto left the band in 1977, after which Pete Shelley became the principal singer-songwriter. After releasing three albums, as well as Singles Going Steady, the band broke up in 1981 following a dispute with their then-record label, but reunited in 1989 and released six more albums before Shelley's death in 2018, but the band has remained active. Steve Diggle, the guitarist and co-founder of the band, is now singer. They added a new guitarist Mani Perazzoli. They are still touring and released their tenth album in 2022
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF7EC - Tobi Lark (born Bessie Grace Gupton
1941) is an American-born Canadian soul and gospel singer, who also recorded under the names Bessie Watson and Tobi Legend. She had a top 40 hit in 1970 in Canada with We're All in This Together. Elsewhere her best known record is Time Will Pass You By, regarded as a classic of Northern soul, which she recorded in 1968 believing it was just a demo
it was released under the name of Tobi Legend without her approval.
Life and career
She was born Bessie Grace Gupton in Alabama, the daughter of gospel singer Emma Washington. She grew up in Detroit and first performed in her mother's choir, the Emma Washington Gospel Singers. She toured with the group for ten years, from the age of nine, before securing her first professional job, as a backing singer for B. B. King. As Bessie Watson, she first recorded in 1963, releasing the single 'Deed I Do backed by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, on the Riverside label, and then two singles, I'm in Your Corner and Wake Up Crying on the Jay Pee label. As Tobi Lark, she then recorded several singles for the Palmer, Topper, and U.S.D. labels, but none achieved much commercial success. She also performed with the Impressions, the Four Tops, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, and Duke Ellington, among others
In 1968, in Detroit, she recorded Time Will Pass You By, a song written by English-born songwriter and record producer John Rhys Eddins with Nick Zesses and Dino Fekaris. The record was released on the Mala label under the name Tobi Legend, but it was unsuccessful until it was picked up in the early 1970s by followers of the Northern soul scene in the UK. The song became known as one of the Three Before Eight, played at the conclusion of every all-nighter at the Wigan Casino club, and has since featured on several anthologies of Northern soul music including The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter ... Ever!, The Northern Soul Story, and The Wigan Casino Story
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF805 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wigan,Greater Manchester,Lancashire,England,UK,WN1 1BH,town,centre,6 Crompton St,WN1 1YP,WN1,Vietnam,Vietnamese,nailbar,high street,appointments,Lancs,sign,English,signage,workers,hours,long,popular,nail,bar,Asia,Asian,far east,style,beauty,varnish,varnishing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF807 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wigan,Greater Manchester,Lancashire,England,UK,WN1 1BH,town,centre,embossed,cast,iron,grid,metal,utility,corporation,board,council,provider,infrastructure,UU,water,service,old,historic,history,NW,Northern Powerhouse,aging,water board,water boards,Manchester Water Board,utilities,meter,access,sewage,fresh,supply
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF8H5 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,Lancashire,Greater Manchester,England,UK,history,historic,heritage,office,winter,lock,on,the,&,and,Wigan,waterway,flowwing,development,renovation,WMDC,Wigan Investment Centre,Waterside Drive,WN3 5BA,WN3,WN35BA,gate,gates,closed,a,modern,building,towpath,tow path
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RH9WHA - Closed lock gates near the Wigan Investment Centre, Waterside Drive, Wigan, WN3 5BA on the Leeds Liverpool canal. Modern office building
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wigan & Leigh Council,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,tories,red wall,constituency,office,Leigh,Wigan,for,summer,37-39,UK,WN7,WN7 1BY,Selfservatives,blue,redwall,selfservative,selfservatives,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,official,offices,ward,wards,Grundy,member,of,Westminster,parliament,candidate
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH0714 - James Nelson Grundy (born 8 December 1978) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh since 2019.
Early life
Grundy was born in Warrington, and raised on the family farm in Lowton, where he still resides. Grundy was also educated locally, having attended both Lowton St Mary's Primary School and Lowton High School.
Political career
Grundy was elected to represent the Lowton East ward on Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council as a councillor in the 2008 local elections. He was elected to Parliament at the 2019 general election, taking the seat from Labour's Jo Platt. This made Grundy the first ever Conservative MP to represent the Leigh constituency since its creation.
Grundy's general election campaign pledges included respecting Leigh's vote to leave the EU in 2016
fighting for vital local transport infrastructure, such as the completion of the Atherleigh Way Bypass, and the re-opening of Golborne and Kenyon Junction stations
and securing investment for Leigh's town centres.
In 2020, Grundy put forward two bids to the Government's Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund, progressing his pledge to get Kenyon Junction and Golborne Station reopened, following their closure after the Beeching Report. The outcome of these bids was due to be announced in autumn 2020.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wigan & Leigh Council,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,15,WN7,Wigan,UK,WN7 1AB,The Musketeer,traditional,history,historic,live bands,music,heritage,old,Victorian,NW,northern,powerhouse,towns,pubs,pub,bar,bars,trad,local,alehouse,alehouses,sunny,blue sky,blue skies
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH0715 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,Wigan,UK,WN7 3AE,summer,blue sky,urban,space,spaces,wildlife,corridor,houses,house,terrace,terraced,outdoor,outdoors,barge,new,development,waterside,home,homes,scheme,sunny,blue,sky,skies,centre,canals
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH0718 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,WN7,Wigan,UK,WN7 3AE,summer,blue sky,urban,space,spaces,wildlife,corridor,man,on,the,net,keepnet,keep,barge,narrowboat,leisure,houses,house,terrace,terraced,outdoor,outdoors,rod & reel,rod,&,reel,new,development,waterside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH071A -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,WN7,Wigan,UK,WN7 3AE,summer,blue sky,urban,space,spaces,wildlife,corridor,man,on,the,net,keepnet,keep,barge,narrowboat,leisure,houses,house,terrace,terraced,outdoor,outdoors,new,development,waterside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH071F -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,grade II listed,buildings,the,pubs,WN7,2,Leigh,Wigan,England,UK,WN7 1EG,pig,pigs,gems,classic,English,town,centre,architecture,summer,blue,sky,Flitch and Firkin,boozer,Atherton,old,brewery head office,history,historic,tourism,tourist,attraction,sunny,blue sky,blue skies
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHPHP9 - Entry Name: Boar's Head Public House, more at https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101163139-boars-head-public-house-leigh-east-ward#.ZFwQAHbMJPY
Listing Date: 9 July 1975
Last Amended: 27 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1163139
English Heritage Legacy ID: 213503
Public house. Rebuilt 1900 AD on decorative cartouche. Red
brick with terracotta dressings and green slate roof. 4 x 5
bays with 2 storeys. Eclectic Baroque. Projecting plinth,
first and second floor bands separated by Ionic columns and
a coped parapet. Semi-circular-arched ground floor windows
with keystones archivolts and casements with etched glass.
Panelled doors in bay 3 with fanlight, columns and flat
pilasters which enclose arabesque-enriched spandrel panels.
Canted and bow oriel windows on the first floor with
terracotta mullions and transoms. The left corner is
articulated by an octagonal lead-covered cupola on columns
and scrolls. It is balanced by a gable to the right with
ball finials and a keyed oculus. The side elevations are
treated in a similar manner. The Church Street elevation
bears a boar's head peering through an arabesque surround in
the central gable. Tall clustered chimney stacks. The
building originally housed the brewery head offices. The
interior is remarkably complete and retains many original
features. Staircase with turned balusters and pulvinated
frieze to closed string. Original timber and cast-iron
fireplaces. Art Nouveau tiles. Plaster cornices. Original
bar fittings.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGPHB2 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3991987026 - 'The Face of Wigan, located in the town centre since 2008, is a stainless steel sculpture of a face. Created by sculptor Rick Kirby, The Face stands at 18-foot-tall (5.5 m) and cost \u00a380,000.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3139101335 - 'Wigan, the home of Uncle Joes Mint Balls.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTE0 - Uncle Joe's Mint Balls are mints produced by Wm Santus & Co. Ltd. in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England since 1898. Despite their name, the mints are not truly spherical but oblate spheroids. The ingredients of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls are: pure cane sugar, oil of peppermint and cream of tartar and are described on the tin as suitable for vegans. The words Gluten Free are also on the tin lid.
The early mint balls were made by William Santus' wife, Ellen, before production moved to a factory near Wigan Wallgate railway station in 1919.
The packaging, usually a sealed can, describes its contents as pure and good, and They keep you all aglow and carries a picture of the mascot, a smiling man in a top hat.
British singer/songwriter and humorist Mike Harding has a song called Uncle Joe's Mint Balls on his 1975 album Mrs. 'Ardin's Kid. It also appeared as the B side to his 1975 single My Brother Sylveste. Wigan Warriors have a version of the song celebrating some of its legendary rugby players of the 1950s and 60s such as Billy Boston, Brian McTigue and Eric Ashton that plays before some of its home games at the DW Stadium
On 16 February 2011, Wm Santus' Dorning Street factory produced the two-billionth Uncle Joe's Mint Ball, which was encased in resin and placed on display at the Museum of Wigan Life until 17 March.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 1268406171 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Fifty-seven is the sixteenth discrete semiprime and the sixth in the (3.q) family. With 58 it forms the fourth discrete bi-prime pair. 57 has an aliquot sum of 23 and is the first composite member of the 23-aliquot tree.
As a semiprime, 57 is a Blum integer since its two prime factors are both Gaussian primes.
In the first storyboard draft for Pixar's film Cars, the main character, a race car named Lightning McQueen was going to have number 57 as his racing number, in reference to director John Lasseter's birthdate, January 12, 1957. But in the final cut, Lightning's racing number changed to 95.
The climax of the movie Eraser occurs on Pier 57
Heinz 57, a brand of sauce, and the number of varieties of foods claimed to be produced by the H.J. Heinz Company. Pictured here is the sign from the UK's largest baked bean factory near Wigan, Lancs.
Henry J. Heinz introduced the marketing slogan '57 Varieties' in 1896. He later claimed he was inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City (a shoe store boasting '21 styles'). The reason for '57' is unclear. Heinz said he chose '5' because it was his lucky number and the number '7' was his wife's lucky number. However Heinz also said the number '7' was selected specifically because of the 'psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages'. Whatever the reasons, Heinz wanted the company to advertise the greatest number of choices of canned and bottled foods for sale. In fact by 1892, four years before the slogan was created, the Heinz company was already selling more than 60 products.
Animals, especially dogs which are a mixture of multiple breeds, can be referred to as 'Heinz 57'. In bingo in the United Kingdom, a commonly used call for '57' is 'Heinz variety'.
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