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Stagecoach Wigan: 21247 (MX55 FHG) a Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE, painted in First Group corporate livery with Stagecoach fleet names and logos applied. This vehicle is captured in Wigan Bus Station operating a journey on Circular Service 628 to Kitt Green on the first Sunday when Stagecoach took over the Wigan Depot, vehicles and operations from First.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 2nd December 2012.
Ref No. 0032836.
Stagecoach In Wigan Wright Eclipse Urban bodied Volvo B7RLE 21247, MX55 FHG was new to First Manchster (#66932) and passed to Stagecoach on December 2nd 2012 after First Group sold their Wigan area operations to its rival and is pictured outside Wigan Wallgate station on the line from Manchester to Southport & Kirkby whilst in the background a Virgin Trains Class 390 'Pendolino' Electric Multiple Unit stands in the platform at Wigan North Western station on the West Coast Main Line, the franchise for operation of which was due to pass from Virgin Trains (in which Stagecoach has a 49% stake) to First Group on December 9th but the transfer was cancelled after Virgin Group sucessfully challenged the Government's franchising system resulting in Virgin Trains being asked to continue operating this franchise until at least November 2014 whilst the rail franchising system is reviewed.
Stagecoach Manchester Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban MX55 FHG (21247) passing through Wigan town centre, 19/03/16
The Grade I Listed St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, East Anglia.
A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In the early 12th century the Abbot, Anselm had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St Edmunds.
This church was largely rebuilt, starting in 1503, with more alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. When the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich was created in 1914, St James Church was made the cathedral. In 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote the Fanfare for St Edmundsbury for a "Pageant of Magna Carta" held in the cathedral grounds.
From 1960 onwards, there was renewed building work designed to transform the parish church into a cathedral building, with the rebuilding of the chancel and the creation of transepts and side chapels. The cathedral architect from 1943 to 1988 was Stephen Dykes Bower and he left £2 million for the completion of the cathedral. In the cathedral grounds a new choir school and visitor's centre were built which were opened in 1990. A Gothic revival tower was built between 2000 and 2005.
The font was designed in 1870 by George Gilbert Scott, constructed on a medieval shaft, with a cover by F. E. Howard of Oxford. The decoration was added in 1960.
In addition to guided tours of the cathedral itself, visitors can view changing exhibits of art in the Edmund Gallery, and an exhibit of historic and religious regalia and artefacts in the Cathedral Treasures display. The painting "The Martyrdom of St Edmund" by Brian Whelan hangs in the Lady Chapel.