…Jennings’ subsequent short film Spare Time have had an important influence on the development of British visual culture. The Worktown Observation Centre will occupy an empty shop on Knowsley St, Bolton. One side of the double fronted space is hosting a changing daily exhibition from invited community photographers and artists including Liam Curtin, Robert Parkinson (Preston is my Paris) and Mark Page (Museum of Takeaway Menu Art). The other side o…
…town observers directed by Ian Potts. Saturday 6th October, 12.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m 12.30 An introduction to Mass Observation (Caroline Edge, University of Bolton) 1.00 Mass Observation and Photography (Russell Roberts, University of Wales, Newport) 1.30 Worktown’s Lost Locations (Ian Trumble, Bolton Museum) 2.00 Refreshments 2.30 Humphrey Spender: photographing the everyday in Mass Observation’s Worktown (Dr Robert Snape, University of Bolton) 3.00…
…An open air election meeting during the January 1938 Farnworth by-election. We think that this sequence of photographs may have been taken at Burton’s Works….
…Shoppers surround a stall in Bolton’s open market….
…Shoppers surround a stall in Bolton’s open market….
…Shoppers surround a stall in Bolton’s open market….
…Children play street games on open land near Snowden St. Bolton Union Mill is visible in the background of the photograph….
…An open air election meeting during the January 1938 Farnworth by-election. We think that this sequence of photographs may have been taken at Burton’s Works….
…An open air election meeting during the January 1938 Farnworth by-election. We think that this sequence of photographs may have been taken at Burton’s Works….
…An open air election meeting during the January 1938 Farnworth by-election. We think that this sequence of photographs may have been taken at Burton’s Works….