Here’s a wacky picture collection featuring some of them. Sadly we’ve been unable to trace any images of particularly strange and rather creepy tree-like Wigan eco-mascot from the 1990s called Brush Sweep.
1. Wigan mascots
. Photo: STAFF
2. Wigan Infirmary Upper Johnson Ward patients, Taylor Bowe, Charlotte Clyne and Hannah Smith, with Sister Elaine Hibbs enjoy the company of Hal from Rock FM Help a Local Child and Edwards Pie Man when they visited the hospital to raise money for the refurbishment of the play room in the ward
. Photo: FRANK ORRELL
3. Fire brigade mascot Welephant on a visit to Wigan in 1988
. Photo: Gary Brunskill
4. Dementia Awareness Day at Garswood House, Wentworth Road, Ashton: Resident Mary Ratcliffe and Leigh Centurions mascot Arty enjoy the tea party
. Photo: Nick Fairhurst