Produced by Wigan Heritage Service Issue No. 52 August - November 2009 25th Anniversary Miners' Strike 1984 £1 YOUR HERITAGE HERITAGE SERVICE Contents Letter from the 3 History Shop Update 4 Archives News Editorial Team 5 Learning and Outreach News The History Shop restoration project is gathering pace. You can read all about progress on the opposite page and visit our new online 6 Local and ‘blog’ at www.wlct.org/Culture/Heritage/hsblog.htm Family History News 7 Collections Corner This issue of PAST FORWARD commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Miners’ Strike. On page eight two local miners share their 8-10 Miners’ Strike of 1984 memories of the strike. Collections Corner turns the spotlight on two 11 Heritage Open Days objects from the museum collection related to the strike and Archives Heritage Network News focuses on mining records. 12-13 Vanished Deer Parks In the last issue we reintroduced the Probing Pictures feature and had 14-15 Memories a great response from our readers. This issue we are introducing 16-17 Walter Hurst – another new feature the Puzzle Page, we hope you enjoy it! We plan ‘Mr Hindley’ to develop this feature further in future issues. 18-20 August 1966 - a PAST FORWARD now has its own e-mail address Nostalgic Tour in the
[email protected]. You can use this to send in your articles, Dying Days of Steam letters and comments. 21 Hindley’s Bell-man Finally, Tyldesley Library will be celebrating its centenary in December. 22-23 Do you remember? PAST FORWARD issue 53 will commemorate this anniversary with an Wigan’s Town Centre article about the Library and its benefactor Andrew Carnegie.