This is a non-commercial website but does contain supplemental information that might be of general interest to Boltonians and for readers of the book.
Material on the website originates from family archives (images and business documents), has been created by the author (written material and some images), is believed to be out of copyright due to its age (mostly images), or is covered by the ‘fair dealing’ exemption. Efforts have been made to check sources but in many cases works are anonymous or there is simply no information available. Copyright law is also complex so mistakes can occasionally happen despite undertaking reasonable enquiry. If you do have an issue with any of the material please email the author using the contact form, identifying the image or other material, stating the problem you have with it and some reasonable evidence of copyright ownership. It will be removed. As for my own family archive material, copyright in most of the images has already expired as they were taken prior to June 1st 1957. However, there may be one or two which were taken after July 1st 1945 which would have still been in copyright when the 1993 Regulations took effect on July 1st 1995. Even with this latter group copyright in the images expired at the end of 2019 (Photos are pre-1949 except for the BRS Musgrave Garage photo taken by my uncle.). Many potentially ‘in-copyright’ and ‘out-of-copyright’ photographs have been donated to Bolton Museum for their archives, so any queries on copyright needs to include a dialogue with them as well as me. To complicate matters further The Bolton Evening News has been given permission to publish some Melias Transport photos in the past. The known articles are on the website although there could be others that have been lost to memory.
Sources of material are cited where they are known. Some items have been collected via on-line auctions and collectors fairs.
Copyright on photographs created after June 1st 1957, or for earlier photographs still in copyright (under previous 50 year rule) on July 1st 1995, is generally seventy years from the death of the author, or seventy years after the end of the year in which the work was first published, or created (where the author is unknown). Under U.S. copyright law images taken or made by the U.S. military or Department of Defense during the course of official duties are public domain. For information, the photograph of the Messerschmitt 109 on the website was cited as ‘US Air Force’ archives in Martin Caidin’s 1968 book ‘Me 109’ published by Pan/Ballantine.