Wow that's a long way to go. I knew the main DJ who did that Wigan Casino thing, Russ Winstanley,. In the early 80e used to come in to my record shop to swap old promotional 12 inch singles for the new chart stuff. I wish I still had the old promos.,
I just spoke (text, really) to my brother. He said He remembered Russ and got friendly with another DJ called Kevin Roberts. Many records were being brought and swapped, especially American imports that proliferated the Northern Soul era. My brother began DeeJaying in the early 80's and finally became prominent in the "second Summer of Love" in 1988 with the rise of acid house and unlicensed rave parties.
When the miners' overtime ban came in 1984, I could see what was happening and what was going to happen. My shop was in a small pit town, near the East Lancs Road. Late in 1983, Asda had begun selling records and that had dented things. Even so, people were coming 15 miles to my shop, which was becoming well thought of. I had musical instruments purchasing arrangements with local schools and an extensive fancy dress costume hire business on the same premises and that was starting to slow down noticeably. I decided to put it up for sale and it sold fairly quickly. A DJ from a nearby township bought it. He was a foolish person, because he put up a big notice in his window "under new management" and then "we support the miners strike". Both were mistakes. When I first saw the management one, I suspected that it was an evil omen for him, since I had an excellent relationship with my customers.
Then he started overcharging people for mending their TVs, record players and video machines. I was visiting the town and one of the customers collared me in the street and asked me why he was overcharging. I just told him that the guy I had used was charging me at £2 per hour and I was passing that on to the customers and just making a small profit on parts plus a small handling charge. Apparently he'd been passing on £10 per hour. I'd only wanted a small profit from that, in order to create good feeling and bring in customers. So he went bust. The town boycotted him completely and he blamed me, for some reason. I probably should have kept my mouth closed, I suppose, but I hadn't liked him. After all, he was from a different place, so he was arrogant and pushy. I wasn't born in Wigan and only came here in 1982 but Wiganers don't care much for such people, as a rule. I wasn't sure why but I was later to find out.
It may be because we are surrounded by beautiful countryside and they, despite being only a few miles away, live in urban squalor and misery, as befits their status; and so they have a Freudian inferiority complex. Maybe, anyway. 
It has high crime levels. They should probably bring in @LordSnuffletwiit, to sort them out.
I'm a bit busy, being descended from monarchy. 
Of course, he may be too. I don't keep up with these things much, past the Plantagenets.
Wow that's a long way to go. I knew the main DJ who did that Wigan Casino thing, Russ Winstanley,. In the early 80e used to come in to my record shop to swap old promotional 12 inch singles for the new chart stuff. I wish I still had the old promos.,
I just spoke (text, really) to my brother. He said He remembered Russ and got friendly with another DJ called Kevin Roberts. Many records were being brought and swapped, especially American imports that proliferated the Northern Soul era. My brother began DeeJaying in the early 80's and finally became prominent in the "second Summer of Love" in 1988 with the rise of acid house and unlicensed rave parties.