Bolton

Bolton early 1900s

Bradshaw & Tonge Moor area

Two views of Bradshaw Bridge leading in to what was a rural village.

Austin, Emma and family lived at 682 Tonge Moor Road, to the right and behind the tram on the photograph (right).

The photos on your right are of the lower part of Tonge Moor Road. You can see the tram lines running down its centre.

A Tonge Moor tram (‘T’) at Bradshaw Brow.

Historic England aerial photos showing Union Road, the Denvale and Dart mills. The Dart Mill is the upper one adjacent to the bend in Union Road (top right).

Grainy photographs of the Dart and Denvale mills. Both now demolished (see below).

Dart mill under demolition. Fred Dibnah demolished the Dart Tower (above).

A 1950s (?) Union Road view of the Dart and Denvale mills (below).

Bolton, Knowsley Street (above) and the exterior and interior of the Market Hall (right).

Dart & Denvale mills & Union Road area

Bolton town centre

Bolton, Newport Street, the street leading to Victoria Square and then Oxford Street and Knowsley Street.

Bolton, Trinity Street Station.

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From Historic England archives

From The Cotton Mills of Bolton by James H. Longworth

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From Fred Dibnah’s Chimney Drops by Alan McEwan

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