Over the years, the Bolton News has shared many memories of people who worked at “Burton Tailoring Halliwell Rd Clothing Works”, as the sign above the gate had it. FOR the fashion-conscious man about town, this ordinary factory in Bolton had been providing wardrobe essentials for almost 40 years when this
In 2024, Gene Watts posted a photo from 1949 of a football match between Park Street and St Edmunds at Holy Harbour in the Facebook Group “I Belong To Bolton”. The photo prompted a lot of comments as people reminisced about Holy Harbour. Here are some of those comments: “I
In March 2019, the Bolton Evening News publish this article about football at Holy Harbour: St Thomas FC 1950: Back row from left, Bob Burns with hat, Len Tollady, John Boardman, Brian Flitcroft, Brian Brackley, Brian Lonsdale, Don Wilson, Don Burns, Rowland Harris. Front row from left, Bill Rigby, Frank
The football club Old Smithillians, who became Smithills AFC, was originally formed in 1963 by Ray Howard, a geography teacher, for fifth-form grammar school leavers. Many of its players were former pupils of Smithills schools (specifically Smithills Grammar School and later Smithills High School/Smithills Moor Grammar). They competed in the
On April 1st 2015, this full-page article was published in the Bolton Evening News to commemorate the 140th Anniversary of St Thomas’s on Eskrick Street, Halliwell. It featured photographs of the football team from 1919 and of June Tollady, the first Rose Queen after the Second World War in 1948,
The Bolton Evening News published two articles on 30th June 2003 and a week later on 8th July about the final Rose Queen celebration at St Thomas’s on Eskrick Street, Halliwell. The crowning took place at St Thomas’s as Holy Harbour, the traditional destination for the parade, had already been
"ALLO…ALLO…ALLO…AND WHAT’S ALL THIS ‘ERE THEN?" Though these may not have been the actual words, there was no mistaking the "fierce greeting" in the policeman’s voice, as he stopped me with the palm of his hand a few inches from my face, at the Knowsley Street and St. George’s Road
By Gayle McBain,21st November 2015 Glorious sunshine brought out the crowds for Bolton’s Rose Queen parade in July 1990. There were 18 beautifully-dressed queens and their retinues from Bolton and surrounding districts who walked around the town centre finishing at the Bolton Town Hall where sea cadets formed a special