The Worktown Archive is a unique historical document of everyday life in Bolton and the first Mass Observation study to take place in Britain.
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St Peter and St Paul’s Church
Children outside school. St Peter’s and St Paul’s Primary School, Pilkington Street. View comment -
Children peeping through a fence
Children peep through a gap in a railway bridge fence. Humphrey Spender took a sequence of photographs of chi View comment -
Scrubbing the pavement
A woman cleans the pavement. Housewives in the 1930s would often use donkey stones to whiten their steps and t View comment
