The picture of Bank St looking upwards from the bottom has a mill on the right hand side, its Crown Street Corn Mill. Run by Henry Whitehursts, i worked there around 79/80. My first job after leaving school, i worked in the offices. Loved it. Some fantastic characters worked in the mill itself, they produced animal feeds for the North West.
What a brilliant collection! I was a nipper in the 50s and 60s living in Leigh. My mum used take me on the bus into Bolton on Saturdays for a shopping trip where we used to go to the market. All the shops seem so bustling and prosperous in those days.
What a surprise treat! I was born in Bolton, (Darley Street, which I think was long ago demolished for new housing ) 74 years ago…Mum worked in the cotton mills, Dad at De Havilland, (which later became Hawker Siddely, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (missile makers) later BAe…Left age 18 to Uni, part of first generation of working class kids to consider it achievable to do so!
An interesting collection of photo's, they spanned 3 generations of my family! My grandparents, my parents and myself. I was born in 1952 and have lived most of my life in Canada, yet so many familiar sights I remember rather alarmingly. Bolton has changed a great deal... yet there is so much familiarity remaining in some buildings. Black and white images don't lie, but they did somehow make things look blacker and bleaker than care to remember.
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Great photographs of (bowton) bolton & look forward to many other's.
The picture of Bank St looking upwards from the bottom has a mill on the right hand side, its Crown Street Corn Mill. Run by Henry Whitehursts, i worked there around 79/80. My first job after leaving school, i worked in the offices. Loved it. Some fantastic characters worked in the mill itself, they produced animal feeds for the North West.
What a brilliant collection! I was a nipper in the 50s and 60s living in Leigh. My mum used take me on the bus into Bolton on Saturdays for a shopping trip where we used to go to the market. All the shops seem so bustling and prosperous in those days.
What a surprise treat! I was born in Bolton, (Darley Street, which I think was long ago demolished for new housing ) 74 years ago…Mum worked in the cotton mills, Dad at De Havilland, (which later became Hawker Siddely, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (missile makers) later BAe…Left age 18 to Uni, part of first generation of working class kids to consider it achievable to do so!
Thank you. All brilliant. A nice little detail at the end: Semi-detatched houses for 385/395 quid. But I worked for 13 quid a week in 1969.
An interesting collection of photo's, they spanned 3 generations of my family! My grandparents, my parents and myself. I was born in 1952 and have lived most of my life in Canada, yet so many familiar sights I remember rather alarmingly. Bolton has changed a great deal... yet there is so much familiarity remaining in some buildings. Black and white images don't lie, but they did somehow make things look blacker and bleaker than care to remember.
Fabulous selection of photos. Thank you so much :)
By the way love your choice of music :)
Kind❤
My world 1944 -69👍
Your picture of bus station that you refer to Moor lane bus station is incorrect. It’s Howell Croft bus station