The ironic thing is, I benefited from Wigan's closure !
Having got into the scene as my mates big brother and all his mates were getting out after the Casino closed with endless tales of woe like " Thats it scenes fu***d! , marriage and kids for me , blah, blah, blah !!!
They had this terrible sense of impending doom, which was quite scary for a teenage kid discovering this type of sound as they had been around since the back end of the " Wheel " / "Torch " and knew their stuff.
I since know nowadays they had just been hanging on to "their " youth at that time and like everyone else had found it hard to move on due to pressures of job / relationships, etc....
Anyway , got some cracking original 45''s out of them at the time for peanuts which when I came to sell my 7's collection later on in life paid for a brand new family estate car, God bless Em!!!!
Dragged a couple to Notts Oddfellows in the mid 80's as they were working as builders in the area, but by then, it was an oldies mentality for them and anything "new" especialy the "modern " stuff was purely seen as disco b*llocks!!!!
Oh how times change....................