…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 them 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 Sommerfield’s book,…
Trams pass along Blackpool promenade in the evening light.
…The steps of Bolton’s Town Hall were used for speeches by religious and political groups. This 2 page observation from 1 May 1938 explains the unofficial rules of the steps….
…Humphrey Spender photographed the rounders cup challenge between Tootals and Eagley Mills on the 11th August 1937. Observer PJ made a 12 page report on the same game which recorded the behaviour of the players and spectators. …
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…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. Worktown People D…
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…Bolton Museum’s exhibition opened on Saturday and is on until 2 December. We are holding an afternoon of talks on the 6 October 12.30-5 pm in the Museum’s beautiful Art Deco lecture theatre followed by a screening of Ian Pott’s film about the Worktown observers “Truth is Stranger than Fiction”. Everything is free, everyone is welcome and refreshments will be provided. Will post more details shortly. …
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