George Orwell used it to research The Road to Wigan Pier.
Wigan Pier had been demolished, and even the spot where it used to stand is no longer certain.
Turner said that Lennon "had an obsession for Wigan Pier.
The road from Mandalay to Wigan Pier is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear.
Throughout Orwell's Wigan Pier you have a strong sense of him tramping around on foot.
So my road back to Wigan Pier started in a refuge for battered women, mostly mothers.
There's a mill near what has come to be known as Wigan Pier.
Orwell was asked about Wigan Pier in a radio programme in December 1943.
Miles writes that The Road to Wigan Pier "is a living and lively book from start to finish.
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