maurice-with a little bit of tinkering you'd get my vote but sadly its to late for you to stand so i guess i wont be voting again.

Is that a 'George W Bush moment' there Maurice? Invading the wrong Korea

Getting back to the original topic, I'm glad to see the old Woolworths store in use again instead of the boarded up mess it had become. Pity we couldn't have had a WH Smith or HMV as there's nowhere to buy a CD or DVD in the town centre these days.

Since you mention it, the Leigh stations were closed under Harold McMillain's Tory government as a part of the cuts introduced by Dr Beeching, and Leigh lost its town hall to Wiggin in the 1974 Local Government reorganisation under the Tory government of Edward Heath.

Hopefully Cameron can obliterate the whole Town

Only joking of course.

Far easier to just download thesedays. Now what i'd give to see a Waterstones bookstore in Leigh then again half of the population wouldn't know what to do with a book

Well a Waterstone's is a good idea.

On a totally different topic however Mutt have you ever thought of watching our lads again ?

You might be pleasantly surprised.

Sorry, Wembley71, slight correction regarding the old Bedford/Leigh station based on personal experience as I used to travel to Manchester by train every day until the line was shut. (With FrankB no less but he probably can't remember that far back )

As you rightly point out, all the other local station closures were the result of Dr Beeching's barmpot ideas on future transport needs but Leigh station was closed on the 5th May 1969 by the order of the then Labour Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle who stated that the line was to remain in place to ensure that it could be easily re-opened should the closure decision be reversed in the future. But within months British Rail started to rip up the tracks for scrap and remove the bridges to save on maintenance and nobody in Government said a peep ! The rest, as they say, is history and we have been bl%%dy well ignored ever since.

Everythings a pound in Leigh, even a 4 bed detached house is 99p.

Well Leyther71 is correct about the decision but he forgets he rarely travelled Saturday and Sundays on that line. Way back then there was plenty to do around Leigh at the weekends and it was a thriving community. Oh and AJM was playing for us then.

Re Vikingman's post you can admittadly get 6 free range eggs for 99p but the rest of his post is as usual a total fabrication.

Sorry Mo but I paid for my pension in advance dont lump us with other workers who didn't/don't

Even books will be rare soon with these ebook readers - whose displays are supposedly like reading a ordinary book. When the prices start to fall as they always do I think being able to download a taster of a book, then hit a button to buy will be more convenient, just like downloading a music track is at moment.

I have to say mutt around late 80's early 90's I got bored with watching RL and Leigh. Most of my mates stopped going, and I had stopped playing etc so gradually stopped being interested.
A few years later I got back into RL because one of my best mates, kept inviting me to W1gan games for a couple of seasons. Later I did go to Leigh games again but didn't really have the bug like it used to be, (plus City being #1 priority too) upto about 2000 when I started to get excited more and more again. I think Gigg Lane GF was the point where I knew that I had turned totally again - as I was truly sick as a parrott on bus going home to sunny Hulme after game.
From experience I know where you are coming from, but you should just go and give it a go again as it will bite you again eventually.
Also B4 anyone has a go at my brief encounter with the dark side, I will challenge you all that was at Sundays game and know I will have been to more Leigh games than most. My W1gan mate hardly goes to games now, apart from SL GF and still digs me (when I call W1gan) about my low point.