Highlights from Deanery High School Wigan Firstly sorry for insulting you by calling you Australians. We were a little insulted by you calling us rich and posh, you make us sound like snobs!! To RENEE we do have lots of gangs if you're not in a gang you're known as a BILLIE NO MATES. Our town is known to have a really common accent (awreet which means alright/hello). By the way some of us don't know what croquet is never mind play it. WRITE SOON!!! luv, Jenne, Vicky, Steph & Clair We all have back gardens except people who live in the town centre. We also have very LARGE HOUSES. There are no skyscrapers in Wigan. The nearest thing to these are the flats in Scholes. Seya soon Jonnie,Matty and Danny. Wigan is a town not a city. You may think we are posh but honestly we are not posh compared to people in the southern part of England. The uniform is not what we normally wear. If we had a say in it we would wear our normal clothes. I hope we have given you a more clearer view of Wigan and us. Speak to ya soon, Gemma and Stephanie You are right about the pollution, as Wigan is full of Rubbish first thing Sunday Morning, and sometimes stays like that 'till late. There is quite a lot of Countryside, especially around Yorkshire, where it is very hilly, and full of Sheep! Our T.V channels range from 4 in normal houses, to about 30-40 in houses with Cable or Sky, although very soon we will have a new channel called CHANNEL 5. See ya, Ste Furlong Wigan has not got a cathedral and so it cannot be a city. Wigan is a town and also a borough which is like an area. Our town is all about pies, football and rugby. We have very famous people living close by. For instance, Eric Cantona who is a famous European footballer. We have two sources of water in our town, the river Douglas and the Leeds Liverpool canal. The Douglas nicknamed the Douggie wiil never be a clean river and noone has ever been known to swim in it, its Roman meaning is Black River. Richard and Thom We mostly do the same type of sports as you. We do netball, hockey, football and rugby. We do not go sailing as there is no water nearby. Our school is very big and has about 1600 pupils and 106 teachers. We do not wear old fashioned clothes we have very fashionable ones to wear at weekends! Not every one in Wigan is rich. Anon We agree with you about the uniforms, we are made to wear them because the teachers are SLAVE DRIVERS!!!!! Tell Te Mauri that she may find it difficult to swim in the beaches, she should try the sea - but not in England as you may freeze to death and they are a yucky colour!!!!! Our streets are not narrow at all and we do not live in cottages, castles or palaces. from Jayne, Harley and Charlotte Our country is nothing like you think it is. We do have gangs but we don't call them that, we call them possies. All High Schools in Britain have school uniforms so really it not 'Old clothes'. We have no castles near because we don't live in a fairy tale. We do drink alot of tea but we also drink a lot of coffee, lots of fizzy drinks. We are so sorry for even mentioning Australia and kangeroos. See ya soon, Amy, Emma, Kim and Davinia We don't talk posh that's only the Royal family (we don't talk to them anyway). The roads aren't narrrow they are wide enough for two cars to drive down (one on each side) and some are even wider. Our cars aren't all minis, most are loads bigger. Speak to ya soon Heidi and Kirsty P.S. DON'T FORGET WE'RE NOT POSH. We have quite a lot of hills and mountains in the Lake District not in Wigan. The Lake District is about 50 miles away to the edge of it. Our streets in the town centre are 2-4 lanes wide and on the motorway they vary from 6-10 lanes wide over the country. There are not so many castles and palaces in Britain now as they have had fires or have been wrecked in wars and battles past. Christopher Wooff and Richard Magee Don't believe the stereo typing of English people, we don't talk posh. We talk in our gruff northern accent. Out of Wigan there is a lot of farms , but in our part of the country we do dairy cattle and sheep. The impressions you got of our houses are the old Victorian houses and the old factories there are very little of these left. Now we have modern housing estates with large gardens, yes there is quite a lot of mowing involved! See ya in a bit! From Adam and Stephen