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Area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous
Wigan_Pier
1937 book by George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier is the fifth book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. Its first half documents his sociological investigations
The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier
Town in Greater Manchester, England
shafts in total within 5 miles (8 km) of Wigan town centre. Coal mining ceased in the later 20th century. Wigan Pier, a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Wigan
Son of George Orwell (born 1944)
April 2020. "Celebration to mark The Road to Wigan Pier anniversary". Wigan Today (Wigan Observer and Wigan Post). 6 February 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020
Richard_Blair_(patron)
English author and journalist (1903–1950)
and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in industrial
George_Orwell
Author
Carcassonne (2004), Narrow Dog to Indian River (2006) and Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier (2013). These books, which humorously (and frequently poetically) describe
Terry_Darlington
British writer (1905–1945)
works. She was left in charge of his manuscript for his novel The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937, when Orwell left to fight in the Spanish Civil War. During World
Eileen_Blair
Raised structure in a body of water
the pier. Working piers were built for the handling of passengers and cargo onto and off ships or (as at Wigan Pier) canal boats. Working piers themselves
Pier
Literary society and charitable organisation
of Wigan was rectified in 2017, 80 years after the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier, by demonstrating that Orwell had not been critical of Wigan people
The_Orwell_Society
Film by Andy Serkis
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal_Farm_(2025_film)
Cotton mill in Greater Manchester, England
stopped in 1968. The mill is now part of the Wigan Pier redevelopment area and is used for other purposes. Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England
Trencherfield_Mill
Literary work of George Orwell
Britain in the form of Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier and one of the first retrospectives on the Spanish Civil War in Homage
George_Orwell_bibliography
English writer and activist
for a number of publications since the early 1970s. Her books include Wigan Pier Revisited (1984), Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places (1993) and Diana
Beatrix_Campbell
Worldview of Earth as an enclosed biosystem
Orwell had earlier paraphrased Henry George in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier: The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of
Spaceship_Earth
Borough of Greater Manchester, England
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town, Wigan, but covers a far larger
Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wigan
Ceremonial county in North West England
histories. Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, was the name of a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. It will
Greater_Manchester
1933 memoir by George Orwell
he had voluntarily lived among tramps for some time." In The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell referred to the tramping experiences described in Down and Out
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London
1936 novel by George Orwell
was touring the North of England collecting material for The Road to Wigan Pier. The novel was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd on 20 April 1936. The
Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying
English DJ
records at Wigan Pier and, most notably, Manchester club Legend, where he took over their Wednesday jazz-funk night in 1981. As with Wigan Pier, people travelled
Greg_Wilson_(DJ)
British singer, songwriter and record producer
CDs of live sets always got passed around and copied from clubs like Wigan Pier, Cricketers, Maximes. And Max Martin is probably one of if not my favourite
Chrystal_(musician)
British actor (born 1961)
Paver, In 2010, Down and Out in Paris and London and in 2012, The Road to Wigan Pier, both by George Orwell. In the Gosford Park soundtrack, Northam sings
Jeremy_Northam
English musician, songwriter and activist (1940–1980)
obsession for Wigan Pier. It kept cropping up", and in Lennon's story A Carrot in a Potato Mine, "the mine was at the end of Wigan Pier." Turner described
John_Lennon
1938 memoir by George Orwell
anti-Stalinist left. After putting the finishing touches on his book The Road to Wigan Pier, he departed for Spain on 23 December 1936. He briefly stopped in Paris
Homage_to_Catalonia
British drama school
former church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, moving in 2012 to Trencherfield Mill, a restored industrial building in the Wigan Pier development area,
Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
Academy_of_Live_and_Recorded_Arts
British television documentary series
History – Radio Times". Retrieved 21 June 2017. "Walking Through History: Wigan Pier – Radio Times". Retrieved 23 June 2017. "Walking Through History: Northumbria
Walking_Through_History
Canal in the north of England
Blackburn Wheelton Chorley Adlington Aspull Wigan flight Ince in Makerfield Leigh branch Leigh Wigan – Wigan Pier Appley Bridge Parbold Rufford branch: Rufford
Leeds_and_Liverpool_Canal
Type of fish used as food for humans
staples of British cuisine. According to George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier, Emperor Charles V erected a statue to the inventor of bloaters. Smoked
Herring_as_food
Three fictional superstates in the novel 1984 by George Orwell
are as suffocated by them as Winston is in Airstrip One. In The Road to Wigan Pier, for example, Orwell examines working-class life in detail; the scene
Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four
1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence
case in other industries (for an example, see chapter 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.) They were also centres of widespread Nonconformism
Lady_Chatterley's_Lover
Wetland in Greater Manchester, England
Wigan Flashes are an area of open water, lakes, and wetlands created due to mining subsidence in Wigan and Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The subsidence
Wigan_Flashes
1903 book by Jack London
Abyss can be seen in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier. Reviewing the book for the Daily Express, journalist and editor Bertram
The_People_of_the_Abyss
1934 travelogue by J.B. Priestley
Journey was an influential work, inspiring George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, and "has even been credited with winning the 1945 election for the Labour
English_Journey
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885 onwards
Leeds and Liverpool Canal flows through the town, including the famous Wigan Pier area. As of May 2018, the rate of JSA and Universal Credit claimants was
Wigan_(constituency)
English singer-songwriter (born 1971)
through a musical cultural shift was happening as his friends frequented Wigan Pier, which hosted alternative musicians and DJs. Among these were The Stone
Richard_Ashcroft
British author
from Wigan Pier: Memoirs of a Linguist” (1998, autobiography), ISBN 978-0-9534398-0-5, published by Transcreen Publications “The Road from Wigan Pier: Memoirs
Richard_D._Lewis
Character in Orwell's novella "Animal Farm"
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Old_Major
British editor and archivist (1918–1980)
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sonia_Orwell
Potential Stalin sympathisers secretly identified by George Orwell
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell's_list
Adjective derived from the author George Orwell
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwellian
English writer (1901–1993)
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jacintha_Buddicom
1940 book by George Orwell
essays: "Inside the Whale" "Down the Mine" (a passage from The Road to Wigan Pier) "England Your England" "Shooting an Elephant" "Lear, Tolstoy and the
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
Inside_the_Whale_and_Other_Essays
Publisher (1936–1948)
notoriously interventionist editor. He published Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier but insisted on prefacing its account of working-class life in the north
Left_Book_Club
Essay by George Orwell
March 2024. Bernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life, 1980. In The Road to Wigan Pier, published in 1937, and again in his "As I Please" column in Tribune,
A_Hanging
British fried fish and fried potato dish
place in the Guinness Book of Records. In George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), which documents his experience of working-class life in the North
Fish_and_chips
Canadian psychologist (born 1962)
studying to be a corporate lawyer. During this time he read The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, which he said significantly affected his educational
Jordan_Peterson
British critic and literary historian (1845–1933)
Orwell calls him a 'confessed reactionary' in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier and cites various extracts from the Scrapbooks which display Saintsbury's
George_Saintsbury
Topics referred to by the same term
We Were" (That's So Raven) The Way We Were, an exhibition at the Wigan Pier in Wigan, Lancashire, England "The Way We Was", a 1991 episode of The Simpsons
The Way We Were (disambiguation)
The_Way_We_Were_(disambiguation)
Fictional donkey in George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Benjamin_(Animal_Farm)
American blackface minstrel troupe
to perform into the twentieth century. George Orwell, in The Road to Wigan Pier (published 1937), describes a coal miner's "Christy-minstrel face, completely
Christy's_Minstrels
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2026
Retrieved 19 June 2026. Whelan, Sean (19 June 2026). "The road from Wigan Pier – in the end it wasn't close". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 19 June
Andy_Burnham
English steeplejack, mechanic and television personality (1938–2004)
Dibnah's Age of Steam began early in 2003, at the Trencherfield Mill, near Wigan Pier. The film crew visited a number of locations, including a steam rally
Fred_Dibnah
City in South Yorkshire, England
Leeds. p. 71. Orwell, George (1980) [1937]. "Chapter 7". The Road to Wigan Pier. Victor Gollancz Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 0-905712-45-5. "RAF Norton". sites.google
Sheffield
Character in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jones_(Animal_Farm)
British music journalist (born 1957)
Retrieved 4 March 2020. Martin, Andrew (7 June 2013). "From here to Wigan Pier". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved
Paul_Morley
English comedian and singer (1875–1921)
humorous concept of "Wigan Pier" in the title of his 1937 study of depression and unemployment in the area, The Road to Wigan Pier. Formby left over 190
George_Formby_Sr
Fictional book in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
and rejection of Well's utopian vision of the future. In The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Orwell wrote about the socialist world being ordered and efficient
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oligarchical_Collectivism
British publishing company
urban working class in the North of England; the result was The Road to Wigan Pier. His break with Orwell came when he declined to publish Orwell's account
Victor_Gollancz_Ltd
British record label
Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 January 2008. "Various Artists – Wigan Pier Pts Bounce". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 January 2008
Dance_Nation_(record_label)
British writer
Road to Wigan Pier. In his unpublished autobiography Caliban Boswelling, Hilton criticised the book, claiming that although Orwell "went to Wigan...he might
Jack_Hilton_(writer)
1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen_Eighty-Four
British music magazine
Beat". Phoenix New Times. Petridis, Alexis (3 October 2003). "The road to Wigan Pier". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 September 2016. Walker, Tim
Mixmag
Listed building in Greater Manchester, England
historic country house in Haigh, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1827 and 1840 for James Lindsay
Haigh_Hall
1945 political allegorical novella by George Orwell
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal_Farm
British actor, author (born 1986)
Catt and Fisher: After the War, Book 3 Justina Robson 2021 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 2021 A River Called Time Courttia Newland 2021 Still Breathing:
Michael_Obiora
Town in South Yorkshire, England
has its HQ in Barnsley. George Orwell mentioned the town in The Road to Wigan Pier. He arrived in the town on 11 March 1936 and spent a number of days living
Barnsley
Russian historian and critic (1890-1939)
Jokes ISBN 0002118041 p. 33 Orwell, George (2014) [1937]. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Penguin. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-241-60579-0. Ali, Tariq The Coming
D._S._Mirsky
Stadium in Greater Manchester, England
multi-use stadium in Robin Park in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is used by Wigan Warriors rugby league club and Wigan Athletic football club. The stadium
Brick_Community_Stadium
Basilica bell tower in Venice, Italy
Historic Preservation (2013), p. Water Tower 2 [accessed 15 July 2020] "Wigan Pier Quarter: Townscape Heritage Initiative" (PDF). p. 23. Retrieved July 20
St_Mark's_Campanile
English punk/new wave band
Phill Calland entitled The Road to Wakefield Pier, inspired by the George Orwell book The Road to Wigan Pier, in which the author documents 1930s poverty
Spizzenergi
British journalist
Oldest Road about The Ridgeway (1975). Biographies were The Road from Wigan Pier about the union leader Les Cannon (1973), a memoir of the writer C. K
J._R._L._Anderson
British engineer and economic theorist (1879–1952)
Generations, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2007), pp. 95–109 George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Chapter VI Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit by Bob Hesketh ISBN 0-8020-4148-5
C._H._Douglas
Design movement (c. 1880–1920)
& Co. pp. 12–14 – via Wikisource. [scan ] George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier Tankard, Judith B. and Martin A. Wood. Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood
Arts_and_Crafts_movement
British publishing company
Communist Party sympathizer Victor Gollancz over his editing of The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), he took his next book Homage to Catalonia to Secker & Warburg
Harvill_Secker
Moscow-based literary magazine (1933–1943)
Dinamov, the editor: Dinamov asked Orwell to send a copy of The Road to Wigan Pier so the work could be published in the magazine; Orwell sent him a copy
International_Literature
1921 popular foxtrot
ISBN 9780595193318. Retrieved 2008-09-30. George Orwell (1958). The Road to Wigan Pier. Taylor & Francis. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0547523017. Retrieved 2008-09-30
Ain't_We_Got_Fun
1974 memoir by Jacintha Buddicom
Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying The Road to Wigan Pier Homage to Catalonia Coming Up for Air Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four
Eric_&_Us
Municipal building in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
public clock by Gillett & Johnston. George Orwell, in his book The Road to Wigan Pier, was highly critical of this expenditure, and said that the council should
Barnsley_Town_Hall
Former pub in Greater Manchester, England
Griffin Hotel is a Grade II listed former public house on Standishgate in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Built in 1905 for Oldfield Brewery to designs
Griffin_Hotel,_Wigan
Irish writer (born 1984)
parents travelled around in a caravan, Sara Baume was born "on the road to Wigan Pier". When she was four years old, they moved to County Cork, Ireland. She
Sara_Baume
Museum in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936. The museum works with other
Museum_of_Wigan_Life
2026 English local government election
Helen (23 June 2004). "Pier pressure". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2026. Morgan, William; Topping, Stephen (2 May 2024). "Wigan council local election
2026 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
2026_Wigan_Metropolitan_Borough_Council_election
American sociologist, author, and sculptor
Press Cavan, Sherri (1979). Twentieth Century Gothic: America's Nixon. Wigan Pier Press. ISBN 0934594007. Langness, L. L. (1967). "Review". American Anthropologist
Sherri_Cavan
comprehensive scholarly survey Orwell, George. "Down the Mine" (The Road to Wigan Pier chapter 2, 1937) full text Rowe, J.W.F. Wages In the coal industry (1923)
List of books about coal mining
List_of_books_about_coal_mining
Human settlement in England
and is situated next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and close to Wigan Pier and Wigan town centre which is in walking distance. Situated close to Trenchfield
Poolstock
French journalist (born 1961)
to George Orwell's classic work on the Great Depression, The Road to Wigan Pier. "Les 20 ans de Florence Aubenas". L'Etudiant (in French). Retrieved 22
Florence_Aubenas
Market town in Staffordshire, England
(born c.1940? - 2025) author of Narrow Dog to Carcassonne & Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier A. N. Wilson (born 1950 in Stone) writer and newspaper columnist Ian Morris
Stone,_Staffordshire
Shopping mall in Wigan, England
The Grand Arcade is a shopping centre in the town centre of Wigan, England. Built in 2007, it comprises over 40 retailers and has a total annual footfall
Grand_Arcade_(Wigan)
British trade unionist
time, he met George Orwell, who was researching his book, The Road to Wigan Pier. Due to his mining experience, Hammond was employed at Garswood Hall Colliery
Jim_Hammond_(trade_unionist)
2010 book by Óscar Martínez
incisive writing' and called it an honorable successor to The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. The Economist
The_Beast_(book)
Act of law enabling an agency such as an executive branch to take actions
Church. Oxford University Press. Sewell, Rob (10 November 2003). "Road to Wigan Pier". In the Cause of Labour: A History of British Trade Unionism. Retrieved
Enabling_act
Friendly fire aviation incident in 1939
Creek' – a place several miles from the shooting-down but one which, like Wigan Pier, was a standing joke in the music halls. In 2003, Patrick Bishop wrote
Battle_of_Barking_Creek
British publisher and author (1898–1981)
parted company with Victor Gollancz, over publication of The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), it was to Secker & Warburg that he took his next book, Homage
Fredric_Warburg
Public university in London, England
Dickens' novels, and the 1937 (first) edition of George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. Archives Reading Room: Situated in the King's Building on the Strand
King's_College_London
Cultural area of England
Condition of the Working Class in England to George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. Meanwhile, enterprise and trade at the North's ports influenced the birth
Northern_England
Village in Hertfordshire, England
village include Homage to Catalonia, Coming up for Air and The Road to Wigan Pier (which he had largely researched before he moved to Wallington, but which
Wallington,_Hertfordshire
Listed building in Greater Manchester, England
on Alder Street in Atherton, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is a house
Alder_House,_Atherton
Alasdair Gray for Unlikely Stories, Mostly 1984: Beatrix Campbell for Wigan Pier Revisited 1985: Frank McLynn for The Jacobite Army of England: 1745, The
Cheltenham Prize for Literature
Cheltenham_Prize_for_Literature
Art museum in Iraqi Kurdistan
Street Textile Museum Textilfabrik Cromford Victoria and Albert Museum Wigan Pier Asia Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Bhutan Textile Museum Bsous Silk Museum
Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum
Kurdish_Textile_and_Cultural_Museum
Museum in London, England
Collection at Opie's Museum of Memories formed part of the now-defunct Wigan Pier Experience. The museum receives over 40,000 visitors annually. The museum
Museum_of_Brands
British class of electric locomotives
1998–2002 Northampton Town 2005–2015 Mons Meg 2015–present 86416 86316 E3109 Wigan Pier 1984–1992 Rail Express Systems EWS 02/2002 Scrapped at C.F. Booth, Rotherham
British_Rail_Class_86
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