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[edit] Component area?

What on earth is a component area? Leigh is a town. That's what it was when I lived there - a town with a town hall, not a component area hall. Please don't put the phrase back onto the page without discussing it here first. --Cheesy Mike 23:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent editing changes

Alot of the sections in the article were about the history of Leigh, so I put all these together. I took out some details like 'theres a Pataks factory next to Asda' and 'the chowbenters chased the Cavaliers from chowbent to Lowton common' because if you don't know where asda is or chowbent and lowton common they're not very helpful.

Also I don't think we need to reference the connection between the spinning jenny, spinning jenny way and the spinning gate shopping centre, the clues in the name.

I think the notable residents section could do with more rugby players, at the momment it looks like Leighs famous for producing Hollyoaks actresses!!

This thing about Leigh cheese being famous as well, if anyone from Leigh reads this and knows about our cheese ever being famous, leave a message here, or better still, if the person who wrote about Leigh cheese in 2004 reads this, tell us the source of this information. I've looked at your contribution history and you've also contributed to the cheddar article !! I'll leave this message here for a month to get some opinion and if no ones heared of Leigh cheese or can give us a reference to it being good for toasting then I'm deleting/toasting the cheese information!--K.murphy 20:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't remove "the cheese...thing". Before the industrial revolution South Lancs would be mainly dairy farmed, the soil (without modern fertilisers) isn't good for much other than grass. It follows that cheese was produced in the area and the reference in Treasure Island is testament to this. There aren't any other towns in the U.K. called Leigh that could otherwise, reasonably, be considered the home of Leigh Toaster. Obviously since textiles, the canals, mining, and the railways moved in all the agriculture stopped and Leigh hasn't produced cheese since but let's not ignore things that happened outside of the Leigh of your era. Also what's with the Pubs in Leigh list? It's stupid.... Shall we list all the streets in Leigh too.

Sad as I am, I searched the full text of Treasure Island available online here and I can find no reference to Leigh, toaster, Leigh toaster, or Leigh cheese by Ben Gunn or any other character. Parmesan cheese is mentioned on page 179 but thats about it. OK, I wont remove the part about Leigh cheese being famous, but I'd question using Treasure Island as a reference to support this claim. K.murphy 09:22, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Leigh is famous for cheese? --Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 09:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Apparently it was, see page 30 of this pdf, I really can't find any mention of it in Treasure Island though. K.murphy 09:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)