The castle then fell into Parliamentarian control and was demolished. Can you go inside Stafford Castle? The Visitor Centre The Centre brings Stafford Castle to life. The interior is designed to encourage a ‘hands-on’ approach to history; the emphasis is most definitely on information with fun. Why was Stafford Castle important during the English Civil …
When is ROMEO + ROMEO and where will it be held? The show will be running until 9 July 2022 at Stafford Castle. It is an open-air production to mark the 30th anniversary of Stafford Shakespeare events and will be a landmark occasion in every sense. How long is the performance of Romeo and Juliet …
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Northern soul music. The Wigan Casino became known as a primary venue for Northern soul music. 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’s Studio 54. What is Wigan most famous …
The site is now occupied by the Grand Arcade shopping centre, which pays homage to the club with its Casino Café. When was Wigan Casino built? Wigan Casino opened its doors for the first time at 2am on September 23 1973. The brain-child of local DJ Russ Winstanley, the club was an alternative to previous …
“The Orwell” at Wigan Pier, formerly Gibson’s warehouse, originally built in 1777, re-built in 1984. When was Wigan Pier built? It was built in the late 1880s and carried a double line of rails from Lamb and Moore’s Newtown Colliery high across the River Douglas, the canal and the Wigan to Southport Railway line, to …
It makes 1.5–3 million cans of Heinz Baked Beans per day and more than 1.3 billion cans of food a year, which is around 383 thousand tonnes (377,000 long tons) annually. It is one of the largest food processing plants in Europe and the largest of Heinz’s factories around the world. What is Heinz mostly …
Chance finds over last 150 years have strongly suggested that Wigan had a Roman origin, but it wasn’t until the early 1980’s that excavations in the Wiend in the town centre, provided for the first time, positive evidence for Roman occupation in Wigan town centre. When were the romans in Wigan? The Roman fort at …
Wiganers are proud to be called pie eaters, but the nickname is not thought to be because of their appetite for the delicacy. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work, before their counterparts in surrounding towns and were forced to eat “humble pie”. …
Lincolnshire was classed as being in the north, though neighbouring counties Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were somehow in the southern boundary, according to a map made by Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones at Newcastle University. Is Lincolnshire northern or southern? Lincoln is a Cathedral City and the county town of Lincolnshire – one of the UK’s largest counties. …
“Grimsby is not in East Yorkshire and never has been. It is now in North East Lincolnshire after previously being in Humberside and Lincolnshire. Did Grimsby used to be in Yorkshire? Until the early 1970s Grimsby was in Lincolnshire. Then somebody invented Humberside and put Grimsby in it. Humberside was the bit of Lincolnshire and …
