…Ladies walk in their Sunday best in a procession from the Methodist Church on Fletcher Street….
Weekend drinkers - Photograph
“True, there were men who sat in the “best room” of the pub with their wives on a Saturday evening…but such men were not likely to add much to the taproom character. They were too much under the wife’s thumb” (Fomer Mass Observer and local author Bill Naughton, Britain Revisited) We have not identified this pub interior although it has been suggested that it is the Joiner’s Hotel which stood at 15 Deansgate. If you can help identify it then pleas…
Weekend drinkers - Photograph
“True, there were men who sat in the “best room” of the pub with their wives on a Saturday evening…but such men were not likely to add much to the taproom character. They were too much under the wife’s thumb” (Fomer Mass Observer and local author Bill Naughton, Britain Revisited) We have not identified this pub interior although it has been suggested that it is the Joiner’s Hotel which stood at 15 Deansgate. If you can help identify it then pleas…
Mass Observation - Page
…ss-Observation was a large-scale investigation into the habits and customs of the people of Britain that was started in Bolton in 1937. Bolton was named “Worktown” by Tom Harrisson. The project focused on Bolton initially and during the Second World War was enlisted by the Government to monitor public morale in the population as a whole. The project still exists today and the archive is currently held at the University of Sussex. The founders of M…
You and Yours - Blog post
…Radio 4 ran an interesting feature yesterday about the Worktown photographs and Bolton Museum’s work to find out more about them. You can listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015kmr4…
Prestons of Bolton - Photograph
…Pedestrians pass the windows of Preston’s of Bolton. The shop opened in 1869 and is still famous today for diamond wedding rings….
Church Procession - Photograph
…Spectators watch a church procession pass through the Churchgate area at the bottom of Silverwell Street. At the back of the photograph are the Grand Theatre and Bolton Church of England Preparatory School for Girls….
Church Procession - Photograph
…Spectators watch a church procession pass through the Churchgate area at the bottom of Silverwell Street. At the back of the photograph are the Grand Theatre and Bolton Church of England Preparatory School for Girls….
Church Procession - Photograph
Spectators watch little girls wearing white and veils in church procession pass through the Churchgate area at the bottom of Silverwell Street. At the back of the photograph are the Grand Theatre and Bolton Church of England Preparatory School for Girls.
St Andrew and St George - Photograph
…religious messages which churches put up around Bolton. There are a number of these photographs in the Worktown Archive and a collection of notes on these church notices in the Mass Observation Archive. Mass Observation planned to publish a study of religious life in Bolton to follow on from John Sommerfield’s The Pub and the People. It was planned that Humphrey Spender’s photographs would be used to illustrate this survey, as they had been in Som…