Amazing how a random ride round Wigan with a camera has become a priceless piece of history. Loved the old saddle junction when it made sense and seeing the Galleries under construction was very cool especially as I was at Wigan tech during construction learning bricklaying . Needless to say I am gutted to see it flattened after less than 40 years 🥺🧱🧱👍🏼

No boarded up shops or pubs, fewer cars on the road, no rubbish on the streets and a Saddle Junction that was easy to drive through! Bring back the Wigan of those days!

So crazy how its so similar but yet so different, like its a parallel universe

This is amazing, like a parallel universe. Wish I could jump into the video and go back in time. ❤

@ 12.46 I'm one of the guys sat on the wall. I remember that day well and I remember looking directly into the camera and wondering if I would ever get to see the footage. And now I have. Crazy.

I don't know why but there's just something so calming about watching this. I wasn't even born yet but looking at what everything used to look like is just really fascinating to me. Kinda wished I could've experienced this ngl

Capris and mkii escorts everywhere, no traffic, hooning around and showing off with black sabbath blaring out the stereo. Magic. This is the shit I built my world around. great days, I was a kid back then and it reminds me of my older brothers and just the era in general, summers were better, people were different. Everything was cooler.

Just found this and omfg all the memories came flooding back, wish wigan was still the same.

Great video. Brings back memories as I moved away from Wigan just 3 weeks after this video was made. Great music too!

this footage makes me want to go out and video everything around wigan, including sending my quadcopter up, so in 20 years we can have a look at whats changed . thanks for the video

So many Ford and Vauxhall cars in this video!!! What is really noticeable in this video is the lack of traffic on the roads, I also remember the old basic bus stops everywhere from my childhood and I remember that Dixons store in Wigan. I didn't live in Wigan in 87 (my parents moved out of Wigan in 1980) but I used to go there often in the early 90's.

This is amazing ! Brings back so many memories of my childhood it’s like time travel ! Thanks so much for documenting real life in the 80s

I miss the old view of the cooling towers and power station at Westwood and Worsley Mesnes flats that all dominated the Wigan skyline. This video gives me goosebumps and can't believe this is 31 years ago! 😮 Great times as a child during the 80's.

A trip down memory lane, both visually and musically. Thanks for sharing :)

Back when things still worked and the radio was worth listening to. Browsing LPs in Smiths, indulging my geek in the model & game shop on Market St., and Friday nights down Maxines (?) for rock night - before the music was sidelined for the DJs.

Not a chav in sight......thanks for sharing, great times. Good soundtrack too.

so epic! thanks for posting this! my childhood right there

I love seeing all the old fords in this. Escorts, Fiestas Capris, Cortinas the big old Granadas and even the Orion

Great video and memories. This would have been taken days before I left Wigan. Great selection of music too.

Great video and a trip down memory lane. The only thing missing is Gags and Bez drinking Merrydown and abusing passers by at Winstanley shops 😀

Great video! Not a pot hole in sight!

Whoah! Just stumbled across this vid. Talk about nostalgic! I was a 6 year old lad living on Langholm Close in '87. Good chance it's me or a mate riding the BMX up the close at around 1:40. Seeing Billy the taxi driver too! Like jumping in a time machine 😄 Unreal.

Thank you for bringing back some happy memories

Listening to Sabbath's 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' album on your car stereo! Ace music choice. 🙂👍

great video...thanks for sharing...couldnt quite make out if the "killer clowns from outer space" grafitti had been written yet at Goose Green

This is amazing. I was born 2 days after this was filmed.

11:54 I think it's my brother on the drive outside my mum's house on Melrose Drive. Thanks for sharing.

A ride in a Ford Capri MK2, ahh the memories!..I had three, a 1.3 in Sahara Beige with a brown vinal roof, a 2.0S in Red, and a 2.0 GLS in Red...happy days!

I wished I lived in the 80’s Wigan but I was born in 2006

This was on a Sunday afternoon

I'd just turned 3 when this was recorded. Class.

The quality honestly isn't bad considering this is almost 30 years ago.

I was born six days after this was filmed.

This can't be Wigan - the sun's out.

I hardly think that the Tourist Board for Wigan will be using this video as an incentive for attracting holiday makers' and high rollers into Wigan. I can remember "fine dining" (fish n chips and Tizer) at the Millgate Chippy and impressing a current young lady with a box of Black Magic or Milk Tray on the back row of the Ritz Cinema. Them days have gone and the youth of today are too busy on their Smart Phones texting. I'll bet that nobody sneaks behind the shops on Market Street for a bit of "How's-Your-Father?" before catching the last bus home. Take-Me-Back!!!

Lots of kids on bikes, not so sure whether there would be as many now. Was hoping I'd see someone I know!

crazy driving

Christ, no one could ever go that fast around the saddle nowadays.

Number one song Michael Jackson i just cant stop loving you

Galleries under construction there, today being pulled down for redevelopment

The car on the drive at the 1:58 mark looks like a Saab, but according to the DVLA it's a Zastava, untaxed since 1990. Never heard of a Zastava. The days when you just stroll onto your local playing field and walk the dog, now they're all being sold off and bought by some local football club and have fences all around them. So much for them being a public field.

Wow, so much has changed.

Now I know what my home town looked like 39 years ago

I was thinking the exact same thing...would have to run through wigan tho...no vehicles....

Really cool place ( I went to Notre Dame high school)

I thought there wasn't much traffic about, I Googled the date, it was a Sunday.

I cycle to Wigan every day and it's changed alot since this video was made, half of the building now in Wigan weren't even there then and some buildings still noticeable to this day. Just shows how Wigan has changed since then

Bring back orange buses! 😃

Aw man, you turned off the camera just when you were gonna reach Tippin's Arms

Brilliant - AND with Fluff by Black Sabbath ❤

1987 was when U2 did the Joshua tree album

no speed bumps or speed cameras and it wasnt the apocalypse like we're told it would be without these "Traffic calming" measures. plus love how clean everything looked. I did a similar route yesterday to Robin Park and it looked like a video from Iraq in comparison

Looks like a Sheerrings bus in that video was in a Ford Capri ?

Looked like the 80s...sounded like the 70s.

Tyrer Avenue, the entrance to Pripyat at 03:49.

Looks like the journey starts on Petworth Drive, immediately turning onto Cadogan Drive.

Excuse me, is there a B&Q in Wigan?...............

I was only 8yrs old then still shit though Wigan naff all in town now

Whats the name of the road you turned into at 11:21?

What's the song from 9 minutes in?

Before the council wrecked the roads with those stupidly expensive bike lanes that nobody asked for or wanted. Roads not full of pot holes either.

Who knew ? The dash cam was invented in Wigan.

Anyone know the music at 2:25/3:20?

What song have you got on there at 9:24?

Looks better back then town centre exactly same apart from you can drive through it. Love the cars we need to thank our labour MPs not spending a penny on Wigan in over 30 years. Cheers

Do not no where you are going no sound of the street ×what suburbs 😮

I have two houses. Once for work my dad is in the army and the other is just a normal house which is in greater Manchester. Just outside of Wigan. I can imagine what Wigan was like in the 80s it probably seemed very nice especially in winter and summer and raining. I support the rugby Wigan Warriors. ❤️ 🤍. 3:22 The light reflection looks like the Ukrainian flag on the camera lens