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Specifically Scotman's Flash.
Over the years, muddy lakes caused by mining subsidence have been transformed into one of the North West’s most important nature reserves, home to an abundance of flora and fauna.
Today Scotman’s Flash is a magnet for water sports.
Rui Costa has escaped from the peloton in stage of the 2016 Tour de France. But he was caught a little later and finally Peter Sagan won the sprint of this stage in Bern.
‘Wigan Pier’ was made famous by author George Orwell, whose 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier is regarded as a classic account of working-class Northern life. ‘The original ‘Pier’ was the humorous local description of a coal loading jetty.
Desmond Family Canoe Trail.
The Desmond Family Canoe Trail was a five-year youth project
to create the UK’s first coast to coast canoe trail from
Liverpool in the west to Goole on the Humber estuary in the
east. The 162 mile route is funded by a £1.3million grant from
the Desmond Foundation, providing training and volunteering
opportunities for thousands of young people aged 16-25, on
both sides of the Pennines.
It was officially launched on August Bank Holiday 2019.
I jumped as I passed - I had "seen" a live person - and partly headless was not good news.
artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bargee-314633
The statue dates from 2008 and is lifesize.
It was vandalised in 2017.
brownsignblogging.com/wigan-pier/
"The Bargee sculpture by Phil Songhurst, one of four sculptures representing working class Wiganers that were installed around the pier area in 2008. The other three were all victims of vandalism, and in 2017 a similar act cost The Bargee his cap and his scalp. How sad it has never been repaired, but perhaps his current neglected and damaged look somehow serves as a metaphor for the town? "
Popo leading the 3rd group up the Tourmalet in La Mongie during Stage 16. Horner and Armstrong were in the leading group, Schleck and Contador in the second.