…Places are limited and can be booked by emailing worktownobservation@gmail.com Gander, Photo Book Workshop, 2-5pm, 31 August Join Robert Parkinson of Preston is my Paris to make your own photo book about Bolton. The workshop will include a short tour of Bolton to collect photographs which you will use to make a book about how you see the town. This event is free and suitable for anyone over the age of 18 with an interest in photography. All materi…
…oth writing bouts, from which he would emerge dazed, and sometimes quite smelly. Observer Walter Hood describes him typing away with a George Formby 78 playing over and over again on his gramophone. So you can picture the scene here’s Lancashire legend, George Formby’s “Hindoo Man” which sort expresses the 1930s cultural attitudes which led to Mass Observation. I think you could call it confused colonialism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXQtc107…
…A guided tour round some of the Bolton pubs featured in Mass Observation’s Worktown study and the book ‘The Pub and the People’. The tour is free but places are limited- please book by emailing worktownobservation@gmail.com. The Worktown Observation Centre will be observing Bolton 26 July to 2 August. www.worktownobservation.co.uk…
…with him on the next part of the project. To find out more please contact Richard on 07977230172 or visit www.HumphreySpenderScholarship.com….
…ience. These tags are used for identification and tracking and can even be implanted in humans, a dark development of M-O’s surveillance methods. <a href=”http://boltonworktown.files.wordpress look here.com/2012/05/wdscf8976.jpg” rel=”lightbox[124]”> There is more information about how the Jukebox was developed here….
…The Museum of Takeaway Menu Art will be visiting the Worktown Observation Centre, on Knowsley Street on 27 July, and will be accepting menus. You find out more about the event by visiting www.worktownobservation.co.uk/ or visit MoTMA….
…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…