Wigan Warriors issued a statement of intent with a 40-6 victory over reigning champions York Valkyrie in the opening match of the Women's Super League season. The back-to-back Grand Final winners ...

Wigan prevail in exciting win over Leigh to move top Betfred Super League Wigan (28) 36 Tries: Marshall, Wardle, Keighran, Nsemba, Ellis, Eckersley, Leeming Goals: Keighran 4 Leigh (12) 28 Tries ...

Wigan Warriors served further notice there could be a new name at the top of Womens' Super League this season with an emphatic statement win against back-to-back champions York Valkyrie in the ...

A new era is dawning for Wigan up in Greater Manchester (Picture: Wigan Council) Sandwiched between Manchester and Liverpool, Wigan is known for its strong roots in coal mining, cotton ...

Charles Brandling was responsible, with the railway built to supply the city with coal – unusually for an early railway ... WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The Grade II-listed Mumbles Pier in 2022, formerly the ...

As someone who once got trapped in a faulty lift for what felt like an eternity, I find it hard to imagine a worse workplace than a coal mine. In The Road to Wigan Pier, his 1936 account of the ...

British coal mining was a rough, tough and exceptionally dangerous occupation, writes Emily P Webber. In The Road to Wigan Pier, his 1936 account of the industrial North of England, George Orwell ...

The Road to Wigan Pier unfolds in two parts: the first is a vivid report on the harsh realities of working-class life in northern England, detailing the grim conditions of coal miners and their ...

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Yet the sporting picture in the town which historically thrived through a mixture of coal, textiles ... facing so many places in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’, could have been very different.