The Galleries Shopping Centre

Now defunct and useless waste of space in its hey day before the terrible grand arcade which every one seems to love in wigan except me! This was a great shopping centre full of top stores and always busy which is a shame cos it looks a lot nicer than the boring modern looking grand arcade.
With its large car parks at the top of the complex and its lovely balconies over looking the outdoor market money should of been spent on this place instead of building a new crappy modern shopping centre at the top of town.
Apparently the place is due for re generation but let’s see if the money appears to make this happen.
The only decent part of this complex is makinson arcade, after the market gate part of the galleries lost specsavers which as moved to standishgate.

The Galleries is a depleated shopping centre in Wigan, near enough everything here is just an empty space, with most shops moving into the new part.
I was surprised to see it so busy really.
They is a Works store which is open, but they isn’t really anything else.
It is quite bare and depressing really and all the worse, this is where all the kids go to hang, messing around on the massage chairs and eveything else.
This shopping centre does not even warrant that title anymore hence I think this buiilding is only really a cut through now, somewhere to go when it rains.
They is a few more places when you come to the end and I even saw a charity their, but no big names, nothing special.
I would not reccomene here when shopping in Wigan, I’d suggest you have a walk around the high street and go in the Grand Arcade as this place doesn’t even warrant the title of shopping centre, it barely has anything to do here and it isn’t modern. I’m surprised it was so busy to be honest with you, but for me, I feel this is a place to avoid in Wigan, unless you are desperate to go to the works or need to get shelter from the rain (even then I’d suggest going in the grand arcade as they isn’t much you can do to spend time here) or just simply cut through from one exit to another.