I think I win at Wigan points being as how I have worked in Wigan, read the book, watched Wigan Rugby League from the Heinz corporate box and visited the pier with a boss whose grandfather ran a pub in Wigan, which we found (and very squalid it was).
You definitely win on Wigan points! But we did once ascend the Wigan Flight of locks (http://www.leedsliverpoolcanal.co.uk/photos.php?gallery=flight) whilst on a canal holiday some years ago.
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Date: 2007-07-02 01:06 pm (UTC)I haven't read the book though.
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Date: 2007-07-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Perhaps his best book, this, together with "Homage to Catalonia."
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Date: 2007-07-02 03:51 pm (UTC)