Toward the end of Kits Lane is a thatched cottage, the former home of George Orwell ... and his book “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1936). Orwell admitted his misgivings about criticizing his ...

Wigan Pier' was made famous by author George Orwell in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier. One of the key buildings at the site is the 18th century Gibson's Warehouse, re-built in 1984 as The Orwell ...

Wigan Pier, immortalised in George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, will become a "a multi-event space". The ground floor will consist of a delicatessen and a large taproom style pub.

Plans were unveiled to turn the former Orwell pub into an events ... That's not changed or our enthusiasm.” Wigan Pier started as a music hall joke dreamt up by George Formby Snr who glamourised ...

The sum total of his own writings on the subject after he began publishing as “George Orwell” comprises ... passages in “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937) and his debut novel, “Burmese ...

This vision is hoping to breathe new life into an area that has been left unused since the demise of Wigan Pier, made famous by George Orwell's novel, more than a decade ago. “This will aim is ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...