The Trade Unions records are available to view at Wigan Archives.
The collection of trade union, clubs and societies papers is extremely varied: from the Wigan Field Naturalists’ Society and Wigan Field Club (DDS/1); to the Woodworkers’ Union (Wigan Second Branch) (DDS/12); to Atherton Light (Salon) Orchestra minutes (DDS/48).
The papers add substance to what we know about people in the past. They tell us more about the actual lives and activities, and remind us that they were more than a birth, marriage and death.